Research knowledge base for GBV questions, methods, and service pathways
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Legal process
3 entriesRights, reporting, police procedure, court process, and legal protections.
UNFPA's Essential Services Package describes core services that should be available across health, social services, police, and justice sectors, along with coordination standards. The idea is that survivors should not receive fragmented help depending only on which door they enter first.
UNFPA's essential-services guidance highlights that quality response depends not only on having services, but also on coordinating them. Survivors can be lost between institutions when police, health, social workers, and justice actors do not know how to connect care safely and efficiently.
Most survivors do not need only one service. The strongest South African and international sources all point to layered needs: safety, health, justice, psychosocial care, and practical support. A directory becomes more useful when it helps people move through that pathway instead of showing disconnected listings.