Promise Kyomukama2025-11-132025-11-132025-09-06APAhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12311/3107Undergraduate ResearchGender-Based Violence (GBV) is a worldwide issue rooted in centuries of power inequalities and patriarchal customs that have persisted in various cultures for centuries. GBV has historically been applied as a means to restrict the autonomy of women, and cultural norms in some areas continue to maintain practices like wife inheritance and forced marriage, thereby circumscribing women's economic autonomy (Tamale, 2008). UN Women (2022) says that gender-based violence (GBV) tramples upon the rights of women and prevents the utilization of half the workforce of a country's full economic potential. Heise et al. (2019) go on to say that those women who become victims of violence lack steady employments, which caused long-term poverty and inequality. In Asia, gender stigma and cultural attitudes discourage victims of GBV from 2 working and seeking justice, limiting their contribution to economic development.enThesis