Transcript Interregional project “Enhancing capacities to eradicate violence against women” Progress report Sonia Montaño Director Division for Gender Affairs 18 November 2010

Interregional project “Enhancing
capacities to eradicate violence
against women”
Progress report
Sonia Montaño
Director
Division for Gender Affairs
18 November 2010
Overall objective
 The objective of the project is to strengthen
national and regional capacity to act on the
prevention, sanction and eradication of
violence against women through the use of
enhanced statistical data and indicators of
violence against women and increased
knowledge-sharing at the regional and
interregional levels.
Expected accomplishments
I.
Improved capacity of national statistical offices
to collect, analyze data, measure indicators
related to violence against women and use
common methodologies and modules to
measure VAW in population-base surveys in
line with the UN Statistical Commission.
II. Increased knowledge-sharing amongst
national machineries and other stakeholders at
the regional and interregional level on physical
and sexual violence to promote evidencebased policies to eradicate violence against
women.
Main activities
 Subregional and regional workshops on the
collection of data and measurement of VAW
 Developing and testing of short module on
VAW and core-set of indicators
 Technical workshops and seminars on the
measurement of physical and sexual violence
 National, regional and interregional studies
 Bilingual kit for collection and use of
information on VAW in line with the Guidelines
of the UN Statistical Commission
 Building and maintaining an interregional web
portal
Subregional and regional workshops on
the collection of data and measurement
of Violence against women
 ECLAC: Three subregional workshops:
Caribbean: Saint-Lucia 15 June 2010; South
America: Santiago, 4-5 November 2010;
Central America: Guatemala, March 2011
 ESCAP: One regional workshop: Bangkok, 2021 September 2010
 ESCWA: One regional workshop: Regional
Commissions’ Training of Trainers on Violence
against Women and Adaptation Workshop for
Arab Countries (Beirut, 3-7 May 2010)
Preparation of survey module
 First UNECE Expert Group Meeting (Geneva,
28-30 September 2009) led to a general
agreement on the questions to be tested and
the parameters for a testing strategy.
 Process included the contribution of the Friends
of the Chair, who accepted to incorporate the
presentation of the proposal for the survey
module in the agenda of their last meeting
(December 2009, Aguascalientes, Mexico).
 Support was given to expand the pilot
application to the five Regional Commissions
(initially restricted to Europe).
Pilot countries
 ECA: South Africa and Uganda (2011);
Morroco participated to the ToT meeting
 ECE: Moldova, Armenia and Georgia (2010)
 ESCAP: Interest of Bangladesh, China and
Thailand
 ECLAC: Mexico (April 2010), Ecuador (2011)
and Jamaica (2012), Chile is interested
 ESCWA: Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon and
Palestine are interested and participated to the
ToT meeting
Technical workshops and seminars
 ECA: one regional workshop for national
monitors in Africa (to be confirmed)
 ECLAC: Seminars for users and
producers
– Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago, 30
November-1st December – to strenghten the
use of administrative records
– Latin America: Lima, Perú, March 2011- with
general attorneys to collect data on femicide
 E-learning workshops: five regional and
one interregional (2 trimester of 2011)
National, regional and
interregional publications
 ECA: 3 national studies (in preparation)
 ECLAC:
– 5 national studies (Argentine, Guatemala,
Paraguay, Perú, Trinidad & Tobago) (final edition)
– 1 regional study (in preparation)
– 1 interregional comparative publication (pending)
 ESCAP: 3 national studies – were replaced by the
presentation of countries’ inputs presented at the
regional workshop and included in the meeting report.
 ESCWA: 3 national studies –were replaced by the
presentation of countries’ inputs presented at the
Adaptation workshop for Arab countries and included
in the meeting report.
Bilingual kit for collection and
use of information
 2008: Approval of interregional project, which
includes a toolkit for the measurement of VAW
 2009: Statistical Commission gives the
mandate to UNSD to prepare Guidelines
 2009: Friends of the Chair approve the outline
prepared by UNSD (Aguascalientes)
 2010: Second UNECE Expert Group Meeting
examines the final version of UNSD Guidelines
 2011: Available funds to prepare an interactive
version of the Guidelines, which could be used
as the basis for the regional and interregional
e-learning courses
Interregional web portal

Construction of the wiki platform “Confluence”
to impulse networks of exchanges between
UN system and non-UN users (second phase
in progress to include national counterparts)
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Support of communities of practices and project
management, collaborative document preparation,
real-time collaboration, web conferencing,
application sharing, document repository, blogs,
etc.
Construction of a public interregional website
that disseminates the activities of the five
Regional Commissions and the Statistical
Commission that contribute to the project’s
implementation (in progress).
Main impacts of the project
(up until now)
 Close collaboration between the Friends of the
Chair, UNDS and the 5 Regional Commissions
 Dissemination and testing of the basic set of
indicators approved by the Statistical
Commission are in progress in the five regions
of the world
 Growing number of countries are adopting the
methodology provided through the project
 Network of collaboration are being established
a national level between users (gender
authorities) and producers of information
(NSOs, administrative registries)
Related web pages
 UNSD:
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm
 UNECE:
http://www.unece.org/stats/gender/vaw/
 ECLAC:
 Interregional website:
http://www.eclac.cl/mujer/cepal/
 Wiki restricted platform: http://wiki.cepal.org
 Observatory of Gender Equity:
http://www.cepal.org/oig/