The Gender Based Violence (GBV) Indicators Project is a regional research study aimed at developing tools to measure and monitor the extent, effect, cost of and efforts to end violence against women. The project is inspired by the Southern African Development Community Protocol on Gender and Development's target to halve levels of gender based violence by 2015. The study which was piloted in South Africa, Botswana and Mauritius employing six tools.
Click here to view the report on the findings of the GBV Indicators Research Project in South Africa, Botswana and Mauritius
The main tool is a prevalence/attitude/costing survey covering a representative sample of women and men making use of electronic questionnaires loaded onto personal digital assistants. Women are asked about their experiences of GBV while men are asked about their perpetration of GBV. The other components are:
- Analysis of administrative data for the past financial year from police, health, shelters, courts and other civil society organisations or government departments dealing with abused women
- Micro and macro level costing of GBV
- Analysis of the I stories to qualitatively explore GBV causes, extent, effects, response and support
- Analysis of the GBV content in the media over a period of one month to determine the extent and manner of GBV coverage in the news
- Analysis of all available official written speeches or records of Parliament debates made in the previous financial year by political figures.
To view summary statistics of GBV in a lifetime in the three countries click here.
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The Gender Based Violence Indicators Study Botswana
15 May 12 | (1) Comment
Regional relevance: Botswana
Over two thirds of women in Botswana (67%) have experienced some form of gender violence in their lifetime including partner and non-partner violence. A smaller, but still high, proportion of men (44%) admit to perpetrating violence against women.
Nearly one third of women (29%) experienced Intimate Partner... [read more]
The war@home: Findings of the GBV Indicators Research Project in South Africa, Botswana and Mauritius
21 April 12
Regional relevance: Botswana, Mauritius, South Africa
GBV is one of the most common yet unacknowledged and serious human rights violations in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region1. The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, which aims to halve current levels of GBV by 2015, inspired the GBV Indicators project that aims to establish comprehensive... [read more]
The War at Home - GBV Indicators Project
16 August 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
Over half the women of Gauteng (51.3%) have experienced some form of violence (emotional, economic, physical or sexual) in their lifetime and 75.5% of men in the province admit to perpetrating some form of violence against women. [read more]
Gauteng GBV Indicators research draft report
25 February 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
Over half the women of Gauteng (51.2%) have
experienced some form of violence (emotional,
economic, physical or sexual) in their lifetime and
78.3% of men in the province admit to perpetrating
some form of violence against women. [read more]
Prevalence and attitudes household survey on GBV in Kwazulu Natal and the Western Cape
08 February 11
Consultants are invited to submit tenders to conduct a prevalence and attitudes household survey on gender based violence in Kwazulu Natal and the Western Cape. The study will cover 1500 households in 75 primary sampling units (PSUs). A total of 750 women and 750 men will be interviewed in each province.
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Call for prevalence survey as police data again falls short
23 November 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
On the eve of the Sixteen Days of Activism Gender Links (GL) has issued a call for a national prevalence and attitude survey on gender violence that would establish the true extent, effect and response to this gross human rights violation. GL has also called on the South African Police Service (SAPS) to honour... [read more]
When violence becomes normal
24 November 10 | (2) Comments
Regional relevance: South Africa
He looked me in the eye without a single flinch and said it, “I have done one of these things in the past. I have done things to scare or intimidate my wife on purpose by threatening to hurt her, yelling and smashing things. I have hit, kicked, dragged, beaten and choked her. I have physically forced her to have... [read more]
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