Mapping tool geweld tegen vrouwen
Mapping tool Violence Against Women
What do you know about the prevelance of the various forms of Violence Against Women in your country / region / city? What measures are being taken by governments, service providing organisations and NGOs to address VAW? Who is working on which topic, and what are the blind spots? The tool Mapping Violence Against Women helps organisations to collect, to structure and to evaluate relevant information. The results of this mapping can be used for several purposes, like writing NGO-reports (f.e. CEDAW shadow reports), strategic planning within your organisation and with stakeholders and advocacy.
De tool is ook online te vinden, nu nog via een proviorische route (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8740694/Mapping%20VAW.pdf) ; binnenkort ook via de R4C website. De tool is vooralsnog alleen als PDF beschikbaar, na het verzamelen van feedback op deze versie zal R4C een volgende editie maken. R4C hoort jullie ervaringen graag terug.
The mapping-tool supports NGO’s and serviceproviding organisations to get an overall picture of Violence Against Women (VAW) in their country / region. What is the prevelance of the various forms of Violence Against Women? What measures are being taken by governments, service providing organisations and NGOs to address VAW? Who is working on which topic, and what are the blind spots? The tool helps to collect, to structure and to evaluate relevant information.
The results of this mapping can be used for several purposes, like writing NGO-reports (f.e. CEDAW shadow reports), strategic planning within your organisation and with stakeholders and advocacy. and use this to make strategic choices on what topics and what strategies to focus on as an organisation (or as a group of organisations).
In the first step of the tool users are asked to make an inventory of the information that is available. The tool guides them along several possible sources of information.
In the second step users will make an overview of the prevalence of the various forms of VAW, and evaluate whether specific groups are in particular affected by it. The questions in the tool make sure no forms or groups will be overseen.
In the next step the existing and lacking strategies and interventions to address the various forms of VAW are being mapped. The UN standards on which interventions should be in place are used in this step.
The last mapping part is an analysis of the stakeholders: who is working on which topic, for which groups and with what interventions?
After the mapping, users will have a rather good overview of both the situation with regard to the various forms of Violence Aganinst Women in their country / region, and which interventions are in place. The mapping will also show what are the blind spots: forms of VAW that are not being addressed; groups that are not being reached, interventions that are lacking or insufficiently implemented.
The mapping tool does give some suggestions as how to use the results for reporting, for strategic planning and for advocacy.
How can R4C help you to use the Mapping tool?
Experts of Rights4Change can provide training and workshops, both on violence against women in general and on using the tool Mapping Violence Against Women. We also offer support to users of the tool.
We have developed some standard workshops, but of course the training will be adapted to your specific needs.
Please contact Rights4Change to discuss the possibilities and the costs of the workshops and support.
Feedback and sharing experiences
Mapping Violence Against Women is a new tool. The tool has been discussed with potential users, but it has not been tested yet. We invite the users of the tool to give us feedback: does it work in practice; what improvements can be made. We also would like to hear about the results of using the tool. To give your feedback ans share your experiences, you can e-mail us. You can also join the linkedIn group Mapping VAW Network / Rights4Change, and share not only with us but with other users as well.
www.rights4change.org (soon to be launched)
LinkedIn group Mapping VAW Network
