Reparations awards and assistance programmes support victims and their families as they recover from harm, live with dignity and take an active part in reconciliation and peacebuilding within their communities.

This work is funded primarily through voluntary contributions and private donations, as well as fines and assets recovered in connection with ICC convictions.

TFV programmes primarily support people affected by the following forms of harm:

  • Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), including rape, forced pregnancy and sexual slavery. This includes girls who were abducted or recruited into armed groups and forcibly impregnated.
  • The loss of a spouse or partner who was killed.
  • Abduction or recruitment into armed groups of children under the age of 15, regardless of the roles they were made to take on.
  • The loss of one or both parents, or other circumstances in which violence has left children in situations of vulnerability.
  • Physical injury and psychological harm resulting from violence.
  • Harm to family members and others affected by violence who are not covered above.

The TFV delivers its work in partnership with implementing partners, who are selected, supported and monitored throughout implementation, and in close collaboration with civil society and non-governmental organisations in affected communities.

The TFV began providing reparative support to victims and their families through its assistance programmes in 2008, in northern Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.



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