ANALYSIS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONALPOLICY AGAINST GENDER BASED VIOLENCEPOLICY/PREVENTION SECTION IN RWANDA:CASE STUDY OF GAKENKE, NYAMAGABE, NYANZA, NYARUGURU &RULINDO DISTRICTS.

Rwanda takes the issue of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) very seriously. The latter is defined by the applicable legislation as “… any act that results in bodily, psychological, sexual and economic harm to somebody just because they are female or male. Such an act results in the deprivation of freedom and negative consequences. This violence may be exercised within or outside the household (MIGEPROF, 2011:3)’.One of the merits of this definition is that it broadens the scope of GBV prevention and response beyond the household, hence making it theoretically tackle it wherever it might occur.