Francesca Grum Chief, Social and Housing Statistics Section United Nations Statistics Division CSW60 Review Theme (agreed conclusions from CSW57) The elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls Inter-active expert panel Addressing data gaps and methodology issues, NY, 17 March 2016 Measuring Violence against Women: Data availability, gaps and indicators for global monitoring in the 2030 Development Agenda

SDG indicators Global Indicators for “follow up and review” of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Agreed by the Statistical Commission in March 2016 To be endorsed by ECOSOC and GA Identified by the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals Indicators (IAEG-SDGs members=28 Member States) Worked since June 2015; 2 plenary meetings; online consultations with all stakeholders for their comments/contributions SDGs framework: 17 Goals, 169 Targets, 230 indicators Around 1/3 gender relevant and 8 indicators specifically on magnitude of different forms of VAW

SDG global indicators related to VAW Physical or sexual harassment by sex, age, place of occurrence, in the last 12 months Intentional homicides by sex and age Young women and men aged years who experienced sexual violence by age 18 Covering: Number of victims of human trafficking by sex, age and form of exploitation –Prevalence of sexual, physical, psychological violence by intimate partner (last 12 months) –Prevalence of sexual violence by non-intimate partners ( last 12 months ) –Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) + FOC UN Statistical Commission Women 20-24, married or in union before age 15, and 18

Data availability and data challenges/opportunities

Countries with nationally representative data on prevalence of physical, sexual violence (last 12 months) VAW: Data availability 89 in in

Number of countries with data on prevalence of VAW in the last 12 months, by type of perpetrator and violence ( ) Data availability VAW => Still missing data for many countries, even on IPV => M issing data on non-IPV sexual violence

Comparability of available data on physical, sexual, psychological violence: Challenges in current data Dedicated survey vs Module approach Current/most recent vs. any previous partner Reference age-group: DHS, EU FRA Willingness to talk about experience of violence may vary across countries

Changes over time – trend analysis Other data gaps on prevalence of VAW Violence among sub-groups of women, including older women, women in conflict situations… Other forms of violence included in SDGs– human trafficking (detected + “non detected”), “femicides”, harassment, etc.

Statistical Challenges/opportunities in SDGs … in addition to data availability (lack of baseline data) Lack of statistical definitions, concepts/standards for selected forms of violence Granularity of data/level of disaggregation required Countries capacity to adopt standards and regularly produce statistics on violence against women Develop guidelines/methods to collect data on missing dimensions and to fill in current gaps  Promote their use through capacity building activities  New standards; better linkages/integration among data sources + use of existing and additional data sources (e.g. geospatial information; administrative records) 