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Research on schools in Uganda indicates that a child’s total school experience is strongly influenced by gender. The joint project by researchers at the University of Sussex in the UK, the University of Botswana and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, found that institutional practices and traditions can lead to a highly gendered school environment rarely challenged by students or teachers. By condoning sexual abuse and aggressive behaviour, school authorities communicate to pupils that violence is a ‘normal’ feature of life. Schools, therefore, can be breeding grounds for potentially damaging gendered practices which remain with pupils into adult life. Yet, with appropriate intervention, schools can provide an enabling environment for the prevention of gender-based violence. The main objective of the proposed project is to provide quality counseling services to children and youth who are victims of school related gender based violence. The grant requested will also be used to provide training in counseling to stakeholders of the target community in order to enable them to counsel the students themselves. The target population is forty schools selected in the Eastern Region from four communities. Ten schools will be used as a control group and the remaining thirty as the sample size.