Transcript United Nations Economic Commission for Africa African Centre for Statistics Expert Group on Indicators to measure Violence Against Women Oumar SARR Statistician African Centre for Statistics Geneva.

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
African Centre for Statistics
Expert Group on Indicators to measure
Violence Against Women
Oumar SARR
Statistician
African Centre for Statistics
Geneva 8 - 10 October
Plan of the Presentation
 Introduction
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African context
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Indicators
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Some statistics
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Issues of Measurement
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ECA Initiatives
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Conclusions
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Introduction
Violence against women are widely observed
through the world but perhaps mostly in Africa;
Since long time, most of these violence are
admitted by people;
In spite of many conventions and treaties
ratified, countries don’t fully apply
recommendations;
Difficulty to compare progresses and obstacles
since in most African countries data on
women’s rights is not adequately and regularly
collected.
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African context
Social context
 Tradition: patriarchal family gives superiority of men
upon women;
 Religion: admit privileges of men to the detriment of
women.
Political context
 Policy monopolized by men while women are often
excluded at the high level of decision;
 Justice not strong and admit somewhat traditional
or religious understanding.
Wars & Conflicts
 Favour massive acts of violence against women and
children.
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Some statistics
In Zaria, Nigeria, 16% of patients with
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) were
girls under the age of five, a sign of sexual
assault;
In the single year 1990, the Genito-Urinary
Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe, treated more
than 900 girls under 12 for STDs;
Ethiopia has the highest figure of 59% of
sexual violence;
In 2005, WHO found that 50% of women in
Tanzania and 71% of women in Ethiopia’s
rural areas reported beatings or other forms
of violence by husbands or other intimate
partners;
Some statistics
In South Africa, Amnesty International reports
that a woman is killed by her husband or
boyfriend every six hours;
In Zimbabwe, six out of 10 murder cases tried
in the Harare High Court in 1998 were related
to domestic violence;
In Kenya, the attorney general’s office
reported in 2003 that domestic violence
accounted for 47% of all homicides.
Indicators
Physical violence
 During conflicts
Women treated as war trophies, Rape, Women
taken as sexual slaves, Women exposed
amputation, Abduction, Forced labour,
Displacement, Ritual murder, Social
reprobation;
 Daily acts: considered normal
Beaten, killed, forced marriage, marital rape,
female genital cutting, sexual harassement, …
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Indicators
Psychological violence
Moral violence addressed
 Bad words against women.
 Method of withdrawing women from their husband
family in case of divorce: no right on land, cattle
and any decision on family issues;
 No decision on family management.
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Issues of Measurement
Status of the measurement
 Main source of statistics are NSOs BUT studies on
Gender issues are:
Rare due to the priorities to other subjects;
Methodology: difficulty to draw study on gender
violence is that the society find humiliant or
mispolite to ask some questions.
 Lack of coordination between NSOs and line
ministers in charge of gender issues.
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ECA Initiatives
Dev. Account Project on Gender
Jointly implemented by ACS and ACGSD
 Overall objective
 to assist African Governments to improve
gender sensitive policy formulation, programme
targeting, including public expenditure
programmes and monitoring progress towards
gender equality and empowerment of women
through sex-disaggregated data.
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ECA Initiatives
Component 1: Engendering P&R on PHC
 This component of the project intends to
review, from a gender perspective, the
statistical frameworks for the preparation of the
2010 Round of Population and Housing
Censuses (2010 RPHC) and provide
recommendations on how to take account of
the gender perspectives in census undertaking.
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ECA Initiatives
Component 1: Engendering P&R on PHC
 To review surveys and census methodologies with
the view of assess whether gender issues are
taken into account in their implementation;
 To undertake desktop/on-line research in order to
prepare updates on four participating countries in
the 2010 Round Population and Housing
Censuses (2010 PHCs) - progress and challenges
in mainstreaming gender in the censuses;
 To propose relevant gender-related analytical
topics and cross-tabulation related to gender from
censuses;
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ECA Initiatives
Component 1: Engendering P&R on PHC
 To review the P&R on PHC with the view of
highlighting and/or incorporating gender-related
topics;
 To design training manuals and modules to be
used for sensitization workshops for 2010 PHCs.
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ECA Initiatives
Components 2: African Gender Development
Index (AGDI)
 This component of the project intends to develop
sectoral AGDI in agriculture and trade to inform
data collection and processing for evidence-based
policy making.
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ECA Initiatives
Components 2: AGDI
 A conceptual framework linking agriculture and
trade from a gender perspective. Such framework
will be fed with data and information collected,
using the sectoral AGDIs;
 All the indexes will combine a quantitative
assessment of gender equality using various
indicators, and a qualitative measurement of
policy, legal, programmatic, and budgetary
responses to addressing unbalances and
empowering women.
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ECA Initiatives
Component 3: Workshops
Overall Objective
 The overall objective of organizing five workshops
is to disseminate tools and methodologies
developed by ECA for the collection, development
and analysis of sex-disaggregated data;
 The workshops will be aimed at improving the
capacity of African National Statistical Offices
(NSOs).
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ECA Initiatives
Component 3: Workshops
Specific objectives:
 Brainstorming on how to introduce cost-effective
ways of generating sex-disaggregated statistics;
 Providing a platform for comprehensive exchange
of experiences of African member states in
generating sex-disaggregated statistics.
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ECA Initiatives
Component 3: Workshops
 Improving the capacity of NSOs to integrate the
gender perspective national census undertaking
during the ‘2010 Round of Population and Housing
Censuses’.
 Advocating for the production and dissemination
of sex-disaggregated data through training and
dissemination of tools developed by ECA namely
time use studies; national satellite accounts of
household production; data decomposition in the
agriculture and trade sectors using the sectoral
AGDIs and gender sensitive monitoring of the
MDGs and PRS.
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ECA Initiatives
Component 4: Gender Statistics Network
(GESNET)
 This component of the project intends to provide a
framework for knowledge sharing, peer learning
and networking between all stakeholders dealing
with gender statistics issues;
 Build a Website on Gender Issues with a Portal
and a Forum of discussions;
 Possibility to download statistics from StatBase.
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ECA Initiatives
In the future: Programme
 To sensitise Boards and Head of NSOs as well as
line ministers;
 To advocate for the creation of Gender Units
among the NSOs; and
 To promote production of gender disaggregated
statistics.
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Other Regional Initiatives
African Women’s Right Observatory (AWRO)
Focus in three forms of violence: partner
physical violence, sexual violence and FGM.
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The prevalence;
Political commitments of governments;
Performance of law enforcement agencies;
Societies’ response to assist survivors and
whether governments have formally guaranteed
women’s ownership and access to land.
AU Convention on Human Rights;
Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action
(BDPA).
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Conclusion
Need of strong advocacy;
Inclusion of statistics components in the
Gender programmes;
Special efforts to the NSOs for implementing
Gender sensitive studies.
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THANKS
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