Indicators on Violence against Women

Publications - Released in 2016

'kNOwVAWdata is a UNFPA initiative to support and strengthen sustainable regional and national capacity to measure violence against women (VAW). Over three-and-a-half years, from mid-2016 through the end of 2019, with support from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the kNOwVAWdata initiative will build on work already being supported by UNFPA to conduct VAW surveys and analysis in in the Asia-Pacific region. The initiative will also ensure sustainability, including by strengthening capacities of national institutions to collect and analyze data, in particular by using internationally recognized, best practice survey methodologies. 

In 2006, the UN General Assembly requested the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) to develop a set of possible indicators on violence against women to assist UN Member States in assessing the scope, prevalence and incidence of violence against women, building on the work of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences. For this purpose, a working group named 'Friends of the Chair' (FoC) was established by the UN Statistical Commission in 2008. The core set of indicators proposed in 2009 and adopted in 2011 are listed in the box below. Because of the name of the working group, these indicators are also sometimes referred to as the 'FoC VAW indicators'.

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Organizations

  • United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
  • Australian Aid (AusAID)