Outcome BOL_D_3.1

Women victims of violence have increased access to quality essential services

Significant progress has been made, in spite of the difficult context derived from the socioeconomic impacts produced by COVID-19. One of the main achievements was progress towards the generation of conditions to improve the access of women to essential services through the development of models of essential services to attend women in rural areas, these were made in the framework of the JP “Funding guidelines for the response to violence against women and children”. Another progress is the monitoring system for the police that attends violence based on a diagnosis. This diagnosis will let the police monitor the advances towards due diligence. Another progress are the guidelines to mainstream gender in the Municipalities of Bolivia, fourteen guides have been designed for Counseller women to implement the GEWE in the annual work plan with an special emphasis in safe cities. The proposal to reform of the Comprehensive Law of violence against includes proposals from Civil Society. A major difficulty was the pandemic and socioeconomic crisis that caused delays in some results.

Women victims of violence have increased access to quality essential services

UN Women has contributed to ensure more women and girls victims of violence, especially indigenous and from rural areas, access to essential services. A total of 9 municipalities now counts with new models of joint response to violence against indigenous women and girls living in dispersed rural areas. This action contributes to SDG indicator 5.1, since one of the key problems in the fight against violence is access to the justice for indigenous women living in dispersed rural municipalities. In Bolivia there are 339 municipalities and the financial resources they receive depends on the number of inhabitants. Due to urban-rural migration, some municipalities have small population, therefore, scarce investment resources; this situation, added to the lack of prioritization of VAW in local and national government planning, significantly reduces investment in addressing the problem. To this end, a structure of 4 response models was drawn up considering the 4 municipal categories, their resources allocation and the municipal interconnection. The models, which were built based on inter-agency studies, were conducted by UN Women, UNFPA and UNICEF in the framework of a joint programme which aim to map existing municipal services and articulate them through tools that allow access to the justice system for indigenous women and girls. UN Women advocated to include these models in the Reform of the Integral Law to Guarantee Women a Life Free of Violence as Functional Networks. In a first phase, the model has been implemented in 9 municipalities in La Paz, Oruro, and Santa Cruz, managing to address 491 cases of violence against women, children, and adolescents, with the support of the Association of Councilwomen of Bolivia (ACOBOL), a civil society organization made up of women local authorities. Articulation with governmental actors such as the State Service of Autonomies, Vice-Ministry of Equal Opportunities, Plurinational Women's Service and 23 municipal governments will carry on to continuously validate the implementation of the models.