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.

calendar_today 21 May 2021

Publication

kNOwVAWdata Phase I Report

Violence against women is recognized as a global public policy priority. Yet, despite growing awareness of the causes and consequences of violence against women, limited high-quality, actionable data on its prevalence exist. This gap is largely due to countries’ inadequate technical capacities to measure violence against women prevalence, meaning they rely on international experts, of whom there are not enough to meet the current and growing needs.

Collecting quality data on violence against women through special surveys is crucial if we want to understand and end this scourge. Doing so is challenging. To address this void in ethical, reliable and comparable violence against women prevalence data across Asia and the Pacific, the kNOwVAWdata Initiative was launched by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Asia and the Pacific Regional Office. The first phase of kNOwVAWdata operated from mid-2016 to March 2021.

This report provides the results of Phase 1 of the kNOwVAWdata initiative. 

calendar_today 01 February 2021

Publication

Sexual Violence in Intimacy (Preview)

A preview of a fascinating new volume Sexual Violence in Intimacy (eds. Torres & Yllö, 2021), including an unprecedented analysis of violence against women prevalence data across the Pacific by kNOwVAWdata's Dr Henriette Jansen.

calendar_today 23 November 2020

Resource

Use and Adaptation of kNOwVAWdata Course Curriculum & Facilitator Guidebook

This document provides helpful guidance on using the kNOwVAWdata Course on the Measurement of Violence against Women materials, making adaptations for local contexts, and acknowledging the course developers when using the kNOwVAWdata course materials.

calendar_today 01 October 2020

Technical Reports and Document

Sri Lanka Women’s Wellbeing Survey - 2019

The 2019 Women’s Wellbeing Survey (WWS) was Sri Lanka’s first national survey on violence against women and girls, using an internationally recognized standardised methodology. The survey was carried out by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) with technical assistance from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and its regional kNOwVAWdata Initiative (supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)) and funding from the Government of Canada.

calendar_today 01 August 2019

Technical Reports and Document

Kiribati Social Development Indicator Survey 2018-19

The Kiribati Social Development Indicators Survey 2018/19 collected data on domestic violence (DV) by including a series of questions that were developed for the domestic violence module of the Demographic and Health Surveys. The objective of the domestic violence module is to measure the prevalence of physical, sexual and emotional violence against women and girls who are, or ever were, married or even who are, or ever have been, living with a man in an intimate relationship. The module also measures the prevalence of physical or sexual violence by perpetrators who are not spouses or cohabiting partners among women, regardless if they have or have not ever been married, since they were 15 years of age. See page 375 for data on domestic violence in Kiribati.

calendar_today 29 July 2020

Fact Sheet

Violence Against Women - Regional Snapshot (2020) - kNOwVAWdata

2020 Asia-Pacific snapshot on the prevalence of violence against women

calendar_today 13 August 2020

Publication

National Study on Violence Against Women in Viet Nam (2019)

The National Study on Violence Against Women (2019) conducted in Viet Nam has yielded a comprehensive and updated picture of violence against women, one that the Government and partners are determined to address all the more effectively going forward, to build on progress made in recent years. The study shows that nearly two in three married women (almost 63 per cent) have experienced one or more forms of physical, sexual, emotional and economic violence and controlling behaviours by their husbands in their lifetime, and almost 32 per cent in the last 12 months. Viet Nam is the only country in the world so far which has conducted a second dedicated study specifically using a cross-culturally validated methodology developed by the World Health Organization.

calendar_today 01 July 2020

Resource

Decision tree: Data Collection on Violence against Women and COVID-19

This decision tree helps organisations with gender-based violence programmes, national statistical offices, policymakers and researchers decide when and how to best collect data on women's experiences of violence and their access and use of relevant services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Restrictions of movement mean women who experience violence are likely trapped at home with their abusers. Interviews with women who may be experiencing violence must be conducted in private to ensure both the quality of the data and the safety of the survey respondent, so it is extremely difficult to collect ethical and reliable data using population-based surveys during this period when men are home due to lockdowns or lost work, etc. This decision tree guides data collectors through the various considerations, viable options and alternative data sources for obtaining information without jeopardising participants' safety or the data's integrity. In doing so, it aims to identify data sources and methodologies that are useful for strengthening services and referral pathways for women experiencing violence during COVID-19.