This report aims to study the relationship between gender-based violence (GBV) and women's economic empowerment in the context of the Colombian armed conflict, as well as to analyze the central role played by women's organizations in the empowerment process.
This relationship is studied based on the concept of the GBV continuum to identify the ways in which violence and its consequences in terms of loss of employment, income, educational opportunities, forced displacement and land dispossession are interrelated. The results show that women's organizations represent a social resource that favors access to and control of other resources such as education and income.