Interventions to Support Psychosocial Resilience: community-based responses to GBV in Kachin State This project aims to ensure that gender-based violence (GBV) response and prevention services are available and accessible to women and girls in 12 camps in Bhamo, Mansi, Momauk and Shwe Gu townships in Kachin State. By adopting an intensive, family-focused, community led, multi-level response to GBV risks, the project aims to support and mobilise resilience and achieve sustainable impact. In each of the twelve project sites, a Women’s and Girls’ Space (WGC) will provide services mobilising and strengthening existing family and community supports, and providing basic Psychosocial First Aid (PSFA) and referral services to girls and women who are survivors or at-risk of GBV. The targeting strategy prioritises participation of vulnerable, marginalised, at-risk and hard-to-reach groups, including those with disability and those from ethnic or religious minorities.  In the 12 WGCs, a Response Officer and Animator will deliver sessions to women and girls of group-based psychosocial support (PSS) organised around a culturally-appropriate activity chosen by the participants. This will be followed by a course of life skills and personal development sessions designed in response to the interests of women and girls. Whilst case management will not be conducted during this phase of the response, the project is planning on providing case management training towards the end of the project. This will be provided in coordination with UNFPA for potential case managers, identified through the response activities. The focus of this initial intervention will be on building KMSS capacity on GBV, with the expectation that they will take on a case management role in future phases of programming, Where individual cases requiring direct GBV response arise, Response Officers will provide initial support through the use of PFSA techniques (using the look, listen, link model and the five essential elements psychosocial interventions in humanitarian settings, Hobfoll 2009), the provision of dignity kits as required, and supporting survivors to access health and other services provided by qualified professionals (including covering necessary referral costs) to the extent possible. Trócaire and KMSS will work with the GBV Sub-Sector to map and update referral pathways in target areas and to develop templates and procedures that allow for the safe documentation of anonymous data on referrals along with appropriate follow-up. Project staff will receive in-depth and refresher training on the safe management of the process. Awareness raising and advocacy campaigns will be conducted with traditional and  religious leaders, camp management committees and health service providers to improve safe access to GBV response services, and communal social actions intended to strengthen the protective environment in IDP camps will be designed and implemented by participants. Animators will deliver sessions of PSS with boys and men, focusing on husbands, fathers and partners of participants in WGC’s. Sessions will engage men and boys at risk of GBV, including those who may be (at risk of becoming) perpetrators and focus on self-care, stress management, calming and relaxation, motivational enhancement, non-violent communication, conflict management and community awareness-raising activities, with the aim of weakening the mediating factors that lead to GBV.