Development Account Projects
Enhancing capacities to eradicate violence against women through networking of local knowledge communities
Background:
The Secretary General’s report on the in-depth study of all forms of violence against women (A/61/122/Add.1 and Add.1/Corr.1. ) and the inter-institutional report No more! The right of women to live a life free of violence in Latin America and the Caribbean, published respectively in 2006 and 2007, made clear that the eradication of violence against women must unequivocally become a central objective of public agendas first as a human rights issue, and second as an obstacle to development, Indeed, violence against women also represents a main obstacle for achieving social equity and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and all of humanity would benefit from putting end to gender violence. Advances must be made toward public policies which underline the States’ duty of diligence to protect women from violence. The political will must be accompanied with sufficient human, technical and financial resources to articulate and deepen existing efforts for prevention, attention and sanction alike.
This project addresses the need to strengthen the capacity of the countries to regularly and appropriately measure violence against women. The project is in line with the recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on Indicators to measure violence against women, held in Geneva, from 8 to 10 October 2007.
Objective:
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:
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Increased number of national machineries for the advancement of women and other stakeholders that have substantially improved their knowledge and capacities to implement effective policies towards the eradication of violence against women.
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Improved skills and tools to manage violence against women in all regions integrated in their practices by national machineries, police, judiciary and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including formulation of plans and programmes and data collection.
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National statistical offices will have improved their capacity to measure violence against women through the use of common methodologies and indicators developed by statisticians, policymakers and NGOs in the framework of official statistics, including the use of a common short module to measure violence against women in population-based surveys.
Implementation Status:
Project implementation commenced in 2008.
