The gender and justice study is to understand women's legal issues and justice seeking behaviors in four regions of Afghanistan. It focuses on four main themes, including: a) women's main legal issues; b) women's justice-seeking choices and rationale for those choices; c) the challenges women face when trying to access justice institutions; and d) women's satisfaction with the judicial process they experience in north (Kabul), west (Herat), central highlands (Bamyan), and east (Nangarhar, Logar). The study is underpinned by a conceptual framework that privileges understanding the dynamics of the demand for justice first, with a secondary focus on the supply side of justice. It has focused primarily on collecting data and information directly from actual or potential users of justice institutions, with efforts to maintain a gender balance among respondents. The knowledge and perspectives of justice service providers or other supply-side actors (like donors or program designers) have been used primarily to complement or be compared with data from the demand side.