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Asian-Pacific Initiatives for Measuring Violence Against Women

This project focuses on measuring and eradicating violence against women in the Asia-Pacific region. It includes workshops, training programs, and conferences to develop gender statistics and strengthen national capacities. The project also involves piloting a survey module on violence against women and maintaining a web portal for information sharing.

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Asian-Pacific Initiatives for Measuring Violence Against Women

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  1. Interregional UN Development Account project on the eradication of Violence against Women Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

  2. Initiatives on VAW measurement in Asia-Pacific • Friends of the Chair (FoC) meeting (Mexico, 9 - 11 December 2009) - Australia, Bangladesh, China, Thailand and Turkey • Regional Commissions’ Training of Trainers on Violence against Women (Beirut, 3 – 7 May, 2010) - Bangladesh

  3. Initiatives on VAW measurement in Asia-Pacific • Workshop on Strengthening National Capacities to Collect Violence against Women Statistics in the Asia-Pacific Region (20 – 21 September 2010, Bangkok) - Co-organized by Social Development Division & the Statistics Division of ESCAP - 3 National Studies

  4. Initiatives on VAW measurement in Asia-Pacific • ESCAP Consultative Meeting to Develop a Regional Programme on Gender Statistics in Asia-Pacific (22-23 September 2010) - Violence against Women statistics • Secretariat of the Pacific Community 11th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women - Multi-year programme to develop gender statistics - Dialogue between ESCAP, SPC and ADB underway

  5. Planned Initiatives on VAW measurement in Asia-Pacific • Assist in the facilitation of 2 Asia-Pacific countries piloting the ECE survey module on VAW • Develop and maintain the Asia-Pacific web-portal, which will feed into the larger interregional web-portal

  6. Thank You !

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