Bolivia moves towards consolidation and standardization of indicators with a gender perspective and gender-based violence

On July 25, the UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence (CoE) in partnership with UNODC-Bolivia presented to representatives of the National Gender and Human Rights Unit of the Bolivian Magistrates Council, the International Justice Mission (IJM) and the Human Rights Community, advances to continue the collaborative work to expand and strengthen a set of indicators with a gender perspective for the delivery of justice in Bolivia.

Within this framework, the latest adjustments made to the matrix were presented, which contains 133 indicators that make it possible to visualize:

(a) gender-based violence, with a special emphasis on identifying crimes committed against children and adolescents; and

b) human and physical resources of the institutions involved in the investigation and administration of justice in Bolivia.

These indicators are included within ten priority themes: sexual abuse, procedural burden, structure (human resources), femicide, forced labor, infanticide, professionalization, rape, rape of child or adolescent, and family or domestic violence.

In the first phase, the Magistrates Council will participate in the review, selection and prioritization of a maximum of 30 indicators, based on seven statistical quality assurance criteria: relevance, accessibility, accuracy, timeliness, punctuality, comparability and reliability.

Adriana Oropeza, coordinator of the CoE, highlighted that this set of indicators is also aligned with the “Guidelines for the production of statistical data by the prosecution service and the courts”, particularly in four of its twelve dimensions: human resources, physical resources, prosecution of criminal cases and criminal trials, which will help to determine, classify and explain what is to be measured with each indicator.

Mónica Bayá, Technical Secretary of the Human Rights Community (CDH), pointed out that in view of the fact that institutions handle different data on the same phenomenon, this exercise will contribute to standardize measurement criteria.

In this regard, Teresa Ledezma, Coordinator of the “Access to Justice” Project of UNODC-Bolivia, pointed out the importance of consolidating a set of gender indicators that will provide standardized information, in order to contribute to the design of public policies based on evidence on an issue as relevant as gender-based violence.