<p>The aim of Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative is to shatter the culture of impunity that exists for sexual violence in conflict, with the goal of ending the use of rape as a weapon of war in conflicts worldwide. It aims to do this by increasing the number of perpetrators held to account and strengthening national capacity.</p><p>It is built around a high-level political campaign supported by a range of practical measures, such as the development of an International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict, sustained country engagement, and targeted deployments of the UK team of experts to help conflict-affected countries. Through these deployments we have worked with a number of governments, including in Bosnia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali and Kosovo to help them develop measures that have had immediate benefit on the lives of women, men and child survivors of sexual violence. It complements the work of the Department for International Development which has the protection of women and girls in conflict situations as one of its high priorities.</p>