Strong national and international leadership needs to send clear and consistent signals that abuses will not be tolerated in peacekeeping missions. Measures need to be put into place to adequately address the needs of women, men, boys and girls who have been forcibly recruited and suffered gender-based violence. Initiatives can be made to recruit female former combatants into the police and armed forces. Male former combatants should be provided with counselling and programmes aimed at preventing gender-based violence on reintegration.