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Figure 2 Access to Services LF=Lunungwi females; LM=Lunungwi males; TF= Tshiombo females; TM= Tshiombo males; MF=Mangondi females; MM=Mangondi males Gender beliefs By endline, there was a statistically significant increase in the proportion of female and male respondents in Lunungwi (one of the ZTVA intervention villages) who strongly agreed with the notion that women had the agency to refuse to have sex with their partner. Slight increases in this regard were also observed in Tshiombo (the second ZTVA village), but these were not statistically significant. In contrast, the comparison village (Mangondi) saw a reduction in the proportion of men who believed a woman has the power to decline sexual advances from her partner. There were also reductions in the comparison village in the proportion of women and men alike who agreed (as opposed to 'strongly agreed') with this statement. None of the changes observed in the comparison village were statistically significant. Figure 3 Gender Beliefs. LF=Lunungwi females; LM=Lunungwi males; TF= Tshiombo females; TM= Tshiombo males; MF=Mangondi females; MM=Mangondi males Conclusions The study findings suggest that the 'Zero Tolerance Village Alliance' model holds promise for changing community norms around SGBV, including Sitaxentan potentially countering stigma related to reporting SGBV experiences, increasing awareness of where to access SGBV care, and promoting gender equality. As community-based interventions often require a lengthy period of implementation before significant improvements are observed [5], it is plausible that the ZTVA implementation period of 9 months was too brief for more of such improvements to be registered in the area of SGBV. Nonetheless, as few SGBV-focused, community-wide interventions exist in the sub-Saharan African region, efforts should be made to strengthen the ZTVA model and to implement it over a longer period of time in order to understand its full potential. Doing so is particularly important as the Thohoyandou Victim Empowerment Programme has received requests from several village elders in Limpopo Province to be inducted into the Zero Tolerance Village Alliance. Furthermore, since the completion of this study, the organization has received funding to replicate the ZTVA approach in 4 additional villages, and to adapt the ZTVA model to the needs of children in school, and of refugee populations. The organization has also been contracted by donors (including the South African government) and to train a total of 10 community-based organizations in South Africa in the implementation of the ZTVA methodology. Acknowledgements Financial support for this study was provided by the Swedish-Norwegian Regional HIV and AIDS Team for Africa, Embassy of Sweden, Lusaka.