Violence against Women in Mongolia: a global and regional perspective Jessica Gardner Violence against Women (VAW) Data Analyst Dr. Henriette Jansen Technical Advisor, Violence against Women Data and Research UNFPA Asia and the Pacific Regional Office, Bangkok Launch of the 2017 National Study on Gender-based Violence in Mongolia 14 June 2018, Blue Sky Tower Conference Hall, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Gender equality is central to ending poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity for all On September 15th, 2015, countries adopted a new set of global goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Achieving these ambitious goals is centred around the premise that no one shall be left behind. This includes women, men, girls and boys of all ages, abilities, and socio-economic situations. In addition to SDG 5 on gender equality, almost all the goals have a gender element to them, either requiring data to be disaggregated by sex or by focusing on gender concerns, such as family planning, youth education and employment, unpaid care work in the home and personal safety in our communities. United Nations: Sustainable Development Goals. http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

Context: SDG Target 5.2 Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls 5.1 End discrimination 5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls 5.2.1 Intimate partner violence 5.2.2 Non-partner sexual violence 5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices 5.4 Value unpaid work 5.5 Leadership and decision-making 5.6 Sexual and reproductive health 5.a Economic resources 5.b Enabling technology 5.c Policies for gender equality Look for diagram about goal 5 Explain importance of the inclusion of VAW indicators in the SDG framework – recognizing the role that VAW plays in gender relations

Source: World Health Organization (WHO), 2013 Growing awareness of causes and consequences of violence against women Strengthened international commitment to end VAW: CEDAW 1979, BPFA 1995, CSW 57 in 2013, 2030 Agenda Target 5.2 Strong push and growing demand for collection of data on VAW UN statistical indicators on VAW agreed by UN Statistical Commission in 2011 (with UNSD guidelines for measuring violence). Adoption of indicators on VAW in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Note VAW was not in the MDGs) High quality data critical to support effective policies, programming, M&E of prevention and response efforts – “know your epidemic” VAW affects most/all other goals in SDGs Source: World Health Organization (WHO), 2013 www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/violence/VAW_infographic.pdf?ua=1

Asia-Pacific Region (37 countries): 30 countries have done a VAW prevalence survey 4 countries did more than one survey 26 have national data on intimate partner violence 17 (+ 4*) have national data on sexual violence by non-partners In summary in the UNFPA AP region (37 countries – map on next slide) 28 countries have done 28 They are not all able to come up with estimates for the SDG indicators: 24 In UNSD world’s women 2015 (compiled by ICF international from available DHS) Next will give some examples of the data and patterns. Focus on 5.2.1. (most data!) Available from DHS, however not published in the national reports Source: UNFPA Asia and the Pacific Regional Office. kNOwVAWdata 2017 Regional Snapshot.

Asia-Pacific Region (37 countries): 31 countries have done a VAW prevalence survey 4 countries did more than one survey 27 have national data on intimate partner violence 18 (+ 4*) have national data on sexual violence by non-partners In summary in the UNFPA AP region (37 countries – map on next slide) 28 countries have done 28 They are not all able to come up with estimates for the SDG indicators: 24 In UNSD world’s women 2015 (compiled by ICF international from available DHS) Next will give some examples of the data and patterns. Focus on 5.2.1. (most data!) Available from DHS, however not published in the national reports Source: UNFPA Asia and the Pacific Regional Office. 2017 Regional Snapshot, kNOwVAWdata.

Proportion of women reporting experiences of sexual violence by a non-partner, lifetime and current (SDG indicator 5.2.2) Source: UNFPA Asia and the Pacific Regional Office. 2017 Regional Snapshot, kNOwVAWdata

Mongolia findings in a global context Partner violence similar to global average, but… varies widely across the country attitudes suggest awareness that it is wrong High rates of non-partner sexual violence Women tell others and report to police Study design Aimag level breakdown Strong stakeholder involvement throughout Combination of survey and qualitative research Valuable lessons learned will benefit other countries

Conclusions and recommendations Landmark study on gender-based violence in Mongolia Provides comprehensive information Beginning of transition to action Disseminate, communicate, explain the findings Opportunities for further analysis and research Men’s experiences and perspectives on partner and non-partner violence Risk factors for partner violence Estimate the costs of violence

kNOwVAWdata UNFPA-DFAT-University of Melbourne/ANROWS partnership on measuring VAW data 2016-2019: Technical support to national VAW prevalence studies Yearly regional training course to build the capacity to conduct national studies on VAW prevalence Website with data visualization and resources New kNOwVAWdata website launch 18 June 2018 On 24 Aug we launched the 3.5 year project Build the capacity of selected regional and national institutions to conduct national studies on VAW prevalence Partner with a regional institution to build capacity and provide technical assistance to countries Ongoing support to countries to undertake studies using WHO methodology or DHS module, including analysis and use data for policy, effective programming and monitoring Increase availability and accessibility of information on national studies on VAW, lessons learned and other related resources

THANK YOU ! jessica@stats2info.com hjansen@unfpa.com