<p>In June we announced £13.5 million of humanitarian funding for Kachin for the next two and a half years. This includes funding for a Gender-Based Violence Coordinator who will work to improve the coordination and response of the international community to sexual violence.</p><p>DFID is also supporting the Secretary of State’s Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative. Two proposals have been approved and are due to begin implementation this calendar year (these include activities along the Burma-China border). Through an international NGO, the UK also gives support to trauma care camps in Kachin State which deals with rape cases.</p>