{"id":2317,"date":"2025-10-24T22:39:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/statistics.caricom.org\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2025-12-06T22:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T22:51:24","slug":"guidelines-for-vawg-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statistics.caricom.org\/guidelines-for-vawg-data\/","title":{"rendered":"CARICOM Guidelines and Protocols on the Collection and Use of Administrative Data on Violence against Women and Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#231478\"><strong>CARICOM Guidelines and Protocols on the Collection and Use of Administrative Data on Violence against Women and Girls<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"671\" height=\"946\" src=\"https:\/\/statistics.caricom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2318 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/statistics.caricom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-13.png 671w, https:\/\/statistics.caricom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-13-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author(s)\/editor(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carol Watson Williams &#8211; Consultant, UN Women MCO &#8211; Caribbean<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">These guidelines are intended to help improve the quality of administrative data on VAWG, and the ethical practices which attend the collection of this data. Accordingly, the primary audience is those entities which produce administrative data on VAWG at the national and sub-national levels. These include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Social services which provide assistance to survivors of VAWG.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Civil society organisation offering services;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The police;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Medical facilities providing care to survivors;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The justice sector, including courts, mediation, legal aid, and prosecutorial services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2\" id=\"view\">View online\/download<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/caribbean.unwomen.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-07\/1_CARICOM%20Guidelines%20for%20Management%20of%20Admin%20VAWG_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CARICOM Guidelines for Management of Admin VAWG_FINAL (PDF, 1.86 MB)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bibliographic information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Geographic coverage:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/caribbean.unwomen.org\/en\/digital-library\/publications?f[0]=region_publications:2286\">Latin America and the Caribbean<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Subject areas:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/caribbean.unwomen.org\/en\/digital-library\/publications?f[0]=subject_area_publications:1304\">Ending violence against women and girls<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/caribbean.unwomen.org\/en\/digital-library\/publications?f[0]=subject_area_publications:1312\">Gender equality and inequality<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Resource type(s):&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/caribbean.unwomen.org\/en\/digital-library\/publications?f[0]=resource_type_publications:1410\">Manuals and tools<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UN Women office publishing:&nbsp;<\/strong>Caribbean Multi-Country Office<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Publication year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number of pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">32<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Publishing entity\/ies:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/caribbean.unwomen.org\/en\/digital-library\/publications?f[0]=published_by:2215\">United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These guidelines are intended to help improve the quality of administrative data on VAWG, and the ethical practices which attend the collection of this data. 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