ABAAD has developed the capacity to deeply analyze relevant gender issues and design innovative interventions. Using a ‘Holistic Care Approach’, ABAAD provides GBV survivors and vulnerable persons with contextual, responsive and assistive services while simultaneously empowering them and building their awareness and knowledge. The mobile bus intervention is the only outreach modality of its kind, within the GBV sector, that ensures access for vulnerable population in remote areas. We aim to use technological innovation as transformative tools for both people in need and those providing humanitarian relief, as such, digital media and technology are often used in our interventions: In 2018, ABAAD launched the RESPOND Mobile Application which serves as a tool for frontline workers to familiarize with the SGBV referral pathways in Lebanon, GBV guiding principles and safe identification and referral principles. The app was also disseminated and shared across all ABAAD’s structures, including ABAAD’s Mobile Unit interventions to promote social cohesion and encourage disclosure of GBV cases. The app helped in linking such disclosed cases to the nearest available GBV structure. Through the Mobile Bus, ABAAD is also conducting workshops with children and adolescent boys to build their capacities in animation techniques, specifically the “Stop Motion” animation videos, as a tool for self-expression.

Through the tours conducted in peripheral communities across Lebanon, the team identified a high gap in activities and services provided to persons with disabilities\special needs (physical and mental). As such, within our Mobile Unit interventions, we aim to extract the relevance of the adapted PSS sessions and facilitation techniques to the needs of the persons with disabilities, by training our facilitators and implementing the sessions. This approach will be monitored and evaluated and the results will be used to feed into a learning document outlining general recommendations and guidelines on conducting inclusive PSS activities at the community level, always abiding by the Do No Harm principles in serving our beneficiaries, and preserving the best interest of all beneficiaries, staff members and partners. ABAAD also plans on: •Developing a mobile APP which will help staff members better manage the schedule of interventions and access data. •Creating relevant M&E tools to effectively collect pre-post tests and measure impact and adjust our services when necessary and always improve and better reach and serve our beneficiaries. •Extending its work to Syria to help women directly through programs implemented by ABAAD and indirectly by building the capacity of Syrian CSOs and enabling them to effectively implement gender equality and GBV prevention & response programs.