Strengthening measurement and building national capacities for collection, analysis and use of violence against women data

Overview

The need to improve quality and availability of data on violence against women (VAW) is high on the international agenda. Building on its extensive work in this area, the World Health Organization is engaged in a number of processes and projects to strengthen the production, analysis and use of global VAW statistics.

The overarching objectives of this work are to increase the quality and availability of data on VAW for global monitoring and programme and policy development and to strengthen national capacity to collect, analyse and use this data. The specific objectives include:

• Conduct methodological work on measurement of: violence against older women; prevalence of psychological violence; disability within VAW prevalence surveys and costing of VAW.
• Coordinate, update and disseminate a database, with publicly available, comparable data on intimate partner violence and on sexual violence against women
• Convene an Interagency Working Group on VAW Estimation and Data, comprising UN agencies that are co-custodians of SDG 5.2 indicators, as a mechanism for compiling and harmonizing country level data on SDG target 5.2 indicators and to produce regional and global estimates;
• Convene a Technical Advisory Group to the Interagency Working Group, to provide expert advice on technical matters related to measuring and estimating IPV and NPSV prevalence.