calendar_today 14 October 2024

Publication

Understanding technology-facilitated gender-based violence in Asia: A qualitative study

Technology-facilitated gender-based violence is an emerging form of gender-based violence that is rapidly growing but is not well understood. This report starts to redress this gap and presents findings from a regional study with diverse stakeholders in Asia.

calendar_today 31 October 2023

Resources

A Guide to Better Understanding and Using Violence Against Women Prevalence Data

This guide presents an overview of the basic concepts and principles of violence against women (VAW) prevalence data.

calendar_today 31 October 2023

Resources

Data on Violence Against Women: Key Messages

This document provides an overview of key concepts on violence against women data that can be applied globally. It is intended to serve as a complementary resource to a longer technical report entitled "A Guide to Better Understanding and Using Violence Against Women Prevalence Data."

calendar_today 06 December 2023

Resource

Checklist for ensuring the quality of violence against women surveys

This checklist is designed to help national statistics offices and other national research and data institutions and research teams to think through the steps needed to produce high-quality survey data on intimate partner violence — from the planning stages through to analysis, report write-up and dissemination of accurately interpreted findings.

calendar_today 24 November 2023

Publication

Conducting a national study on the prevalence of violence against women: Lessons learned from Mongolia

This document aims to help other program and project coordinators and researchers undertaking violence against women prevalence surveys to anticipate and address some of the challenges they may face. It contains lessons learned gathered after completing the Mongolia study and launching the results. Key people involved have shared their experiences establishing partnerships with stakeholders, recruiting and managing an effective team of interviewers, preparing for and conducting the fieldwork, and translating the results into action. 

calendar_today 15 August 2023

Fact Sheet

Violence Against Women - Regional Snapshot (2023) - kNOwVAWdata

This 2023 snapshot is the seventh annual edition of this publication. The data reflect the most recent data collected with either the WHO methodology, the DHS-DV (domestic violence) module, or the UNECE VAW module. The data in this publication are sourced from publicly available survey reports, as of August 2023.

calendar_today 23 May 2023

Resource

2023 kNOwVAWdata face to face course: Capacity building to measure the prevalence of violence against women

The kNOwVAWdata course increases skills and knowledge of individuals working on national prevalence surveys, data, and reporting of violence against women. With a focus on safe and ethical methods, the course covers risk mitigation from survey design through to responsible reporting and dissemination. The University of Melbourne (UoM) will be recommencing face to face delivery of the kNOwVAWdata course in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS), and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The course responds to Sustainable Development Goal reporting needs for comparative, ongoing and improved measures of the prevalence of violence against women.

calendar_today 31 August 2022

Fact Sheet

Violence Against Women - Regional Snapshot (2022) - kNOwVAWdata

2022 Asia-Pacific snapshot on the prevalence of violence against women

calendar_today 02 February 2021

Technical Reports and Document

Prevalence Rates, Trends and Disparities in Intimate Partner Violence: Power of Data in the IPV Geospatial Dashboard

Using data from the UNFPA IPV dashboard (which offers the highest data coverage of any related source), this report features levels, trends and sociodemographic and geographic disparities, within and across countries, in intimate partner violence in the past 12 months, among ever-partnered women. Such data offer insights for evidence-based policymaking and programming, and targeted resource allocations in order to ensure no one is left behind.

calendar_today 21 May 2021

Publication

Summary Report: Evaluation of the kNOwVAWdata Initiative - Phase 1

Demand for data on the prevalence of violence against women (VAW) is increasing as countries monitor their progress towards meeting Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and other commitments such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Yet, due to limited technical capacities, data on VAW prevalence are often unavailable, underused or collected in unethical, unreliable, and incomparable ways.

To address this void in ethical, reliable, and comparable VAW prevalence data across Asia and the Pacific, the kNOwVAWdata Initiative was launched in 2016 by UNFPA Asia and the Pacific Regional Office (APRO) with financial support from the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). With University of Melbourne and Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) as key partners, the kNOwVAWdata Initiative aimed to improve the availability and quality of data to inform more effective policy and programme responses to end VAW.

This report provides a summary of the evaluation of the kNOwVAWdata Initiative - Phase I.