Outcome KGZ_D_3.2

Service providers are better able to prevent VAWG and deliver essential services to victims and survivors of violence

The Outcome was not achieved. In the Q1 UN Women focused on strategizing its work on prevention of VAW and support in delivering essential services to survivors of violence in several interlinked directions by yielding the following results: 299 partners have knowledge and use innovative tools for strategizing their work on providing services to VAW survivors. Partners co-created and adapted a methodology on Design Thinking (DT) to create a platform for service providers and survivors to jointly use Empathy and User-Journey mapping tool to strengthen the mapping of existing essential services done by UNFPA from the perspective of the survivor. Complexity of applying survivor centric approach is very much subject to the lack of the clarity in the legislation related to SGBV issues, which is still under consideration due to legal inventory process going on in the country till March 2022. UN Women provided a platform and expert support for conceptualization and adaptation of Design thinking, which was a business tool, for the purposes of EVAWG by making it survivor centric and responding to their real needs. This innovative tool allows to consider different women profiles including those displaying multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination. It also enables engagement broad range of civil society actors, who can offer innovative solutions from multiple angles. Draft mechanism of dealing with sexual violence against girls was developed based on real 4 cases of violence following survivors centric approach UN Women worked in close collaboration with RUNOs within SI programme and facilitated the process of conceptualization and adoption of survivor centric approach by applying design thinking methodologies. The Theory of Change is still applicable for this Outcome.

Service providers are better able to prevent VAWG and deliver essential services to victims and survivors of violence

The work under this outcome has slowed due to the delays in the adoption of the amendments to the Law on protection and safeguarding from domestic violence. The Draft Law has been suspended and returned for additional public consultations and subsequent parliamentarian hearings. This delayed the approval of the Essential Service Package. This package will change in response to changes in the Draft Law, ideally such that respective amendments are integrated into SGBV services SOPs and strengthen services in a survivor-centric manner. Moreover, during the reporting period UN Women held consultations with one of the districts of Chui province to test SOPs from a survivor-centric approach perspective, based on algorithms earlier developed by an expert team. Within 7 months of 2022 - 167 cases on VAW were sent to court which is significant increase compare to 48 cases within the whole year of 2021. 449 women VAW survivors received medical support in First Aid clinics, 1397 women received medical support in hospitals, and 1901 women received medical forensic support after the registration of VAW cases. In 2022, 25 representatives: Ombudsperson on Children’s rights under the office of the President of Kyrgyz Republic, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representatives of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic in the regions, vice-mayors of Bishkek and Osh cities on social issues, representatives of ministries and crisis centers in the regions learned to apply innovative approaches to bring both government and CSO actors to discuss and understand the complexity of sexual and gender-based violence against girls (according to the statistics for 2022 there is observed growing tendency of violence against girls and minors) to come to a shared understanding of entry points for prevention and response. Moreover, they discussed the possibility of uniting efforts to develop a roadmap for the prevention and response to violence against girls, linked to the National Strategy and Action Plan to achieve gender equality in the Kyrgyz Republic. UN Women facilitated the sessions by applying innovative tools with a specific focus on survivor/human centric approach.