The Declaration calls for various interventions including the eradication of existing armed groups in the region and the strengthening of judicial, security and financial sectors to prevent, protect, respond to and punish SGBV. It recommends the fast tracking of establishing SGBV recovery centres to provide medical, judicial/prosecutorial and psychosocial support to victims of SGBV as well as the strengthening of mechanisms to provide income generating activities for survivors of SGBV. Under the Declaration, Member States further set up a special Regional Facility for training and sensitising judicial officers, police units, social workers, medical officers and other categories of persons who handle SGBV cases in the Great Lakes Region. The Regional Training Facility (RTF) was established in 2014 in Uganda. RTF has conducted several training sessions for the military, judges, prosecutors, journalists, medical and social workers in its course of work on SGBV prevention and response. In 2019 trainings have focused on ending SGBV against Refugees. Reviews of the implementation of the Kampala Declaration in 2016 indicate that the majority of the ICGLR member have made significant strides in fulfilling their commitments in preventing SGBV, punishing perpetrators and supporting survivors. Most countries have developed SGBV laws and gender policies and established onestop recovery centres for survivors of SGBV.169 However, some countries manifest less progress mostly because of ongoing conflicts, and challenges for victims of SGBV in accessing justice discourage survivors from seeking redress.170 A Regional Women’s Forum was established in 2010 as a coordination and consultative organ of ICGLR which seeks to promote equal participation of women at all levels.171 In 2017 the Regional Women Forum visited eastern Congo to conduct situational analyses from a gender perspective.172 Following a request from the ICGLR Regional Women Forum, observer status was granted to one woman in the 169 ‘Towards an Anti-Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Norm in the Great Lakes Region of Africa: Civil Society Review of the Implementation of the 2011 ICGLR Kampala Declaration’ ISIS WICCE 2014 170 Nyirinkindi L and Twesiime K M ‘ ‘Improving Access to Justice and Ending Impunity for SGBV in the ICGLR Member States’ ICGLR Regional Training Facility 2017 171 Republic of Rwanda ‘Rwanda to host the Regional Women Forum Secretariat’ 07/31/2015. Available at http://197.243.22.137/migeprof/index.php?id=61&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=237&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroll er%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=4d2d8d7fe6c19c8dea9a146fc0647b1fle 172 ICGLR Regional Women Forum participation in TSC Field Visit: 7-11 September 2017. Available at https://ungreatlakes.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/icglr_regional_women_forum_participation_in_tsc_field_ visit-_7-11_september_2017.pdf 60