Across humanitarian settings, the consequences of recent funding cuts are reverberating through every cluster — from health to food security, education to shelter. Yet among the most severely impacted are gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response services. According to OCHA1 , GBV is now globally the second mostaffected humanitarian cluster by funding reductions. The first is the health cluster- who as providers of Clinical Management of Rape, are critical to GBV response services. As a result, life-saving services are closing across crisis-affected regions, particularly in the Arab States, leaving millions of women and girls without protection, care, or recourse. This is not just a funding challenge. It is a fundamental protection crisis. The erosion of GBV services undermines humanitarian effectiveness, reverses progress on gender equality and signals an unacceptable retreat from our shared commitments to principled, accountable response, as enshrined in international humanitarian principles.