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Workshop on Strengthening National Capacities to Collect Violence against Women Statistics in the Asia-Pacific Region

The Social Development Division and Statistic Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) co-organized a Workshop on Strengthening National Capacities to Collect Violence against Women Statistics in the Asia-Pacific Region. Key objectives of the Meeting include: To strengthen the capacity of countries in the Asia-Pacific region to measure, disseminate and use statistical data and indicators of violence against women, in order to take effective actions to prevent and respond to it. Date: 20-21 September 2010 Venue: Meeting Room F, United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok

Presentations:

Agenda item 1: Overview
Objectives, organization and expected results of the workshop
International overview of violence against women
Agenda item 2: Approaches to VAW data collection
Challenges in Measuring Violence against Women
Results from Countries Using the WHO Multi-Country Study Methodology
VAW statistics from Demographic and Health Surveys
VAW statistics from WHO Surveys
VAW statistics from administrative record
Research with boys and men to develop evidence-based response to the prevention of violence against women
Methodological issues
Viet Nam experience of undertaking a VAW survey
Overview of United Nations initiatives on violence against women statistics and indicators
Introduction to a VAW statistics module and manuals
Training workshop for field staff: Survey module to measure violence against women
Agenda item 3: Improving VAW statistics
Statistical Coordination
Framework for national statistical coordination
Country experiences with collaboration and institutional coordination for centralizing, systematizing, consolidating data and making it available
Agenda item 4: Knowledge communities
Introduction of knowledge communities, tools and mechanisms, best practices and the VAW statistics portal
UNIFEM Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence against Women
Association for Progressing Communications Women's Networking Support Programme

Other useful reference documents:

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Europe "Violence against women module"
United Nations Population Fund "Swimming Against the Tide"
World Health Organization "Putting women first: ethical and safety recommendations for research on domestic violence against women" (WHO/FCH/GWH/01.1)
World Health Organization and PATH "Researching violence against women"
Demographic and Health Surveys "Domestic violence against women module"
World Health Organization "Multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence against women"
Demographic and Health Surveys "Profiling domestic violence. A multi-country study"