Communities Care: An Integrated Community-based Sexual and Gender-based Violence Intervention; Baseline Evaluation Report

From 2022 to 2024, Profamilia, in partnership with the Women Refugee Commission (WRC), implemented the Communities Care project. The project aimed to facilitate care-seeking behavior and timely uptake of care by survivors of sexual violence (SV) in Uribia, la Guajira, Colombia.

Prior to implementation of Communities Care, WRC, together with Universidad de los Andes (UniAndes) School of Government research team and the Centro Nacional de Consultoría (CNC), conducted a baseline study to document the characteristics of individuals and the baseline level of key intervention outcomes across both the intervention and comparison communities. This report documents the baseline research process and findings, which were used to inform the contextualization of the Communities Care model in Uribia.