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Regional Gender and Diversity Dialogue: The Importance of Data in Designing Policies to Address Violence Against Women

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On June 3 and 4, the Regional Policy Dialogue “Violence against Women: Towards a Comprehensive and Coordinated Approach” was held in Mexico City, organized by the Gender and Diversity Division and the Citizen Security Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with the participation of representatives from 19 Latin American and Caribbean countries: Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay.

This meeting brought together Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Undersecretaries of Women, Security and Justice, as well as representatives of international organizations, to promote the strengthening of institutional responses to violence against women, through the exchange of effective evidence-based strategies, coordination and multisectoral collaboration in the region.

Among the topics discussed was the importance of data and evidence in the formulation of effective policies, where Adriana Oropeza, coordinator of the Center of Excellence (CoE) participated as a panelist in the roundtable: "Closing the data gap: The role of evidence in the design of policies to address violence against women", where she highlighted the 911 pilot project through which unreported cases of violence against women are detected; strategies for the strengthening and use of statistical information systems in security matters through tools such as the Statistical Framework on Feminicide, Victimization Surveys, the International Classification of Crimes for Statistical Purposes (ICCS); as well as International Standards for the production of statistical information.

Several initiatives were presented that will undoubtedly contribute to the discussion and generation of synergies, as well as the development of effective, evidence-based public policies to prevent and eradicate violence against women.