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How internet-connected devices can affect victims of gender-based domestic and sexual violence and abuse

This resource list is intended as supplementary material to better inform and guide victims and survivors of technology-facilitated abuse as well as those working with them.

This publication compiles and analyses the results of Rapid Gender Assessment surveys on the impact of COVID-19 on violence against women (VAW RGAs) in 13 countries.

The Due Diligence and State Responsibility to Eliminate Violence against Women: Standards, Indicators and Good Practices project is a research-advocacy project that is collecting good practices and State actions in the formulation, implementation and enforcement of policies, laws, procedures and processes in relation to violence against women.

The Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) is a new, gender sensitive and multidimensional measure of poverty. The measure assesses deprivation at the individual level, in relation to 15 key dimensions of life, making it possible to see who is poor, in what way and to what extent. This study explores what additional insights could be gained by individual-level, gender-sensitive poverty measurement in Fiji

Lessons Learned from Field Research on Violence Against Women in the Solomon Islands and Kiribati

This decision tree helps organisations with gender-based violence programmes, national statistical offices, policymakers and researchers decide when and how to best collect data on women's experiences of violence and their access and use of relevant services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As this leaflet sets out to show, administrative data, while having their utility as a source of information on violence against women, cannot provide an estimate of the prevalence of violence against women taking place within a population.

kNOwVAWdata's explanation of commonly used terminology related to violence against women

Surveys are the only way to collect data on the prevalence of violence against women (VAW) and thus to get an estimate of the magnitude of the problem in the population. There are two major approaches to collecting population-based data on violence against women using surveys; dedicated surveys or a set of questions/modules added to a large-scale survey.

UNFPA across Asia and the Pacific outlining progress towards our transformative results of zero maternal deaths, zero unmet need for family planning, and zero gender-based violence and harmful practices against girls and women.

UNFPA’s ultimate data source and tracker for population and development data. It combines the newest population data on topics like sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, family planning, maternal health, or gender based violence gathered from a multiple sources.

Page 19-24; discusses collecting data and evidence (with discussions around challenges in gathering data)

After the release of the guide: A Practical Approach to Gender-Based Violence: A Programme Guide for Health Care Providers & Managers in 10 countries, presentations and discussions were conducted to evaluate the guide's release (recommendations are presented on page 12) with experts commenting on the challenges of measurement (pg 17)