This guidance note is based mainly on the previously published UNFPA text in the document ‘Woman and Girls Safe Spaces: Guidance note based on lessons learned from Syrian crises’. It is considered and updated in accordance with the evidence obtained through the mixed migration humanitarian response in Bosnia and Herzegovina, through which UNFPA has established woman and girls centres (WGCs) in this country.

In the same response programme, UNFPA also established boys and young men centres (BYMCs) and jointly with this guidance note it developed the guidance note ‘BOYS AND YOUNG MEN SAFE SPACES: A Guidance Note based on the Humanitarian response in Bosnia and Herzegovina’. These documents have an almost identical structure and the same description of the general approach.