Gender-based violence (GBV) rates are extremely high in the country, and it is exacerbated by the current multifaced humanitarian crisis as well as by entrenched social norms that hinder the promotion of gender equality. Children are affected by specific protection problems such as: psychosocial distress, family separation, association with armed groups and forced recruitment, exposure to mines and other explosive devices, but also by structural protection problems that are exacerbated by gender-based violence (including child marriage and sexual exploitation), child labor and other forms of abuse.