In June 2010, UNDP hosted a regional seminar in Accra: ‘Towards Strengthening the Role of Parliaments in Crisis Prevention and Recovery in West Africa.” To prepare for the seminar, it commissioned a series of research papers to identify good practices and lessons learned in the sub-region on parliamentary performance in crisis prevention and recovery. This paper focuses on how parliamentary functions have responded to the challenges of gender-based violence (GBV) in the region and identifies a number of lessons learned and entry points for strengthening parliamentary responses on this issue.