Webinar: Actioning data to prevent violence against women

Launch of new global, regional and national prevalence estimates

Violence against women and girls remains one of the most urgent and pervasive human rights violations worldwide. With less than five years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), progress toward SDG 5 – ending violence against women – is alarmingly slow. Reliable data are essential to understand the scope of this issue, track trends, and inform evidence-based policies and interventions.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and HRP (the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction), on behalf of the UN Inter-Agency Working Group on Violence Against Women Estimation and Data, has released new global, regional, and national prevalence estimates for intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence against women. These findings underscore the need for accelerated action and collaboration.

Interpretation in Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish will be provided during the event.

This event will:

• present the latest prevalence estimates on violence against women;
• highlight the role of data in shaping effective prevention strategies and policies;
• showcase country-level good practices and evidence-based interventions; and
• engage stakeholders in dialogue to accelerate progress toward ending violence against women and girls.

Programme highlights

Introduction and welcome

Moderator: Naeemah Abrahams, Gender and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council

Opening remarks

• Pascale Allotey, Director, HRP and Department of Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing: Advancing Life Course Health and Reproduction, WHO
• Sarah Hendriks, Director, Programme, Policy and Intergovernmental Directorate, UN Women

Presentations

• Brief history of the VAW estimates, Claudia García-Moreno, Consultant, WHO and HRP
• Presentation of the global, regional and country estimates, LynnMarie Sardinha, Technical Officer, WHO and HRP
• Importance of VAW surveys to inform evidence/data-based policy, Tania Helena Garcia Pareja, ENDIREH, INEGI, Mexico
• Data-informed prevention strategies and efforts, Tarisai Mchuchu, Executive Director, MOSAIC, South Africa
• RESPECT women, 2nd edition, Avni Amin, Head of Rights and Equality across the Life Course team, WHO and HRP
• Main findings from the analysis of country measures to end violence against women and girls, Raphaëlle Rafin, Policy Specialist on Violence Against Women and Girls, UN Women
• Use of data and estimates at the global level by the Bank (and beyond), Manuel Contreras Urbina, Global Lead Gender-Based Violence, World Bank

Q&A with the audience

Closing remarks

Zulema Altamirano Argudo, Deputy General Director of Interinstitutional Coordination in Violence against Women