Domestic Violence in Georgia

1. Domestic Violence in Georgia Geneva 27-29 April, 2011

2. Domestic Violence in Georgia • Adoption of State Concept of Gender Equality in 2006; • Adoption of anti-trafficking and domestic violence laws in 2006; • Elaboration of Gender Equality Law, adopted by the Parliament in March 2010; • Elaboration National Action Plan for 2011-2013.

3. Domestic Violence in Georgia Domestic violence stands for violation of constitutional rights and freedoms of one family member by the other, in conjunction with physical, psychological or sexual violence, coercion or threat to undertake such actions. Source: The Law of Georgia on Elimination of domestic Violence, Protection of Victims of domestic Violence and their Assistance, Article 3, 2006)

4. Domestic Violence in GeorgiaThe data on the victims of the DV Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.

5. Domestic Violence in GeorgiaThe data on the perpetrator of the DV Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.

6. Domestic Violence in GeorgiaCourt decisions on suppression of DV, protection and support of victims of DV Source: Supreme Court of Georgia.

7. Domestic Violence in Georgia Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia

9. Domestic Violence in Georgia • Publications “Women and Men in Georgia” in 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2008 years were published; • At the moment is preparing new edition of publication “Women and Men in Georgia” 2011.

10. Pilot Testing of the VAW Module In November, 2010: Testing of : • Methodological and training materials • Sensitivity of topic (openness of respondents) • Questions (which worked and which did not) By means of conducting 200 interviews of the VAW pilot survey in urban and rural areas, 100 interviews in each area.

11. Pilot Testing of the VAW Module Stages of Pilot Process 1. Preparatory Activities • Translation and streamlining of survey materials • Sampling of i) urban and rural areas and ii) households • Training of interviewers 2. Fieldwork 3. Debriefing of Interviewers 4. Data entry and database cleaning 5. Formation of the database

13. Pilot Testing of the VAW Module Main Reasons of Non-response: • Household members were not at home, or • Dwellings were closed and no one lived there • Just a few refusals – the largest part of which not related to the specific topic • Only 2 women (both above 60) refused to participate after finding out about the nature of the survey

14. Pilot Testing of the VAW Module Conclusions and Findings • Statistical sampling methods were not used for the pilot testing • 2-day training is considered to be optimal • It would be useful to translate and use the Question-by-question description of Violence against Women Module during training

15. Pilot Testing of the VAW Module Sensitivity • No significant problems in terms of establishing communication – unexpected not only for interviewers, but also for working group members • Divorced women and widows were more open in discussing their ex-partners • The survey topic unexpected for women • Women positively surprised that someone/some organization would be interested in such questions

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18. Domestic Violence in Georgia Domestic Violence in Georgia Thank You For Attention

19. Domestic Violence in Georgia Domestic Violence in Georgia Lia Charekishvili Head of Sub-Division of Social Infrastructure, Social Statistics Division E-mail: licha@geostat.ge Web address: www.geostat.ge