Outcome MAR_D_3.1

Stakeholders are committed to prevent VAW and to deliver quality essential services to WSV

Outcome 3.1 was successfully achieved in 2022. Institutional representatives from the Office of the Public Prosecutor / tribunals; the Ministry of Health / hospitals; the Women’s machinery / housing centers for WSV; the police forces; and Royal Guard / specialized units strengthened their culture of monitoring and evaluation of essential services provision following a self-assessment on the implementation of the protocol at institutional level. The assessment generated recommendations to improve the service provision for WSV. This process will inform future regional evaluations on the quality of the service provision for WSV for better inter-sectoral coordination. The established culture of self-assessment reflects a strong sense of ownership and a clear commitment to service provision to ensure that quality services are provided. UNW further supported intersectoral coordination with service providers for WSV through the monitoring and evaluation of the territorial protocol for providing coordinated services to WSV. Police forces more adequately deploy in response to the prevalence of various forms of violence, taking into account occurrence time and geographical location. This is a result of the Police response to VAWG becoming increasingly informed by data analysis collected by the VAW field Units. For example, when the data collected in one district showed a low rate of complaints on cyber-violence, the National Police strengthened its communication strategy in this area on the services available to survivors of this particular form of violence. The National Police is committed to ensure a better coordination of their local response to deliver quality essential services to WSV. In 2022, In this regard: (i) The High Commission for Planning (HCP) developed a user-friendly online platform to display key gender statistics, including statistics from the national prevalence VAW study; (ii) the Office of the Public Prosecutor (OPP) published the annual report of judicial statistics, which includes VAW statistics and elaborated an integrated national action plan to end early and forced child marriage; (iii) the police forces continued to collect and disseminate VAW data (including the number of complaints received and processed, number of complaints dropped, authors' profiles, etc.). These efforts reflect stakeholders’ commitment to improve the quality of targeted essential services provision to WSV. UN Women supported each of these steps taken by duty bearers to better produce data, knowledge, and communication tools informing VAW policies. An increasing number of national institutions, private sector companies, NGOs, and other relevant stakeholders engaged in VAW prevention efforts. Stakeholders demonstrated national ownership over the 16 Days campaigns as a result of UNW’s continuous advocacy. UNW is solicited by current partners and non-partners to conduct awareness-raising activities during the 16 Days campaign. This is a testimony of an increased commitment to prevent VAW. This year, new key strategic partner, the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication, jointly organized, with UN Women, a film festival on women’s rights and gender-based discrimination that mobilized more than 700 people. In addition, the National Commission for Data Protection organized an event to launch a new platform dedicated to the protection of private citizens’ lives and the processing personal data of children, adolescents and women, including WSV when they report VAW cases to national institutions. UN Women partnered with the Commission to launch this platform.

Stakeholders are committed to prevent VAW and to deliver quality essential services to WSV

Outcome 3.1 was achieved in 2021 with UNW partner stakeholders: the Office of the Public Prosecutor, the General Directorate for National Security (police forces), the High Commission for Planning, the National Mutual Aid, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During 2021, the focus was to resume activities that were on hold during 2020 in the COVID context and after the re-orientation of activities. The most successful institutional result was achieved through coordination with services involved in the counceling and care of WSV, namely with the police forces and the OPP. With the National Police, the focus of the support consisted in (i) strengthening the coordination between ministerial departments providing services to survivors’ and their understanding of the law and (ii) enhancing their response to violence against women and girls. To achieve this, and with UN Women support, the police forces organized a study day on the thematic "Response to VAWG challenges and issues” at the occasion of the International Day for the EVAW. Also, and to better capture challenges on the field by all ministerial departments listed in law 103.13, the police forces organized, with UN Women support, three site visits to VAW units were organized in three different cities. These site visits were also organized in tribunals, hospitals, multifunctional centers for women and civil society centers/premises which has provided the opportunity to discuss the challenges faced in the coordination process that need to be collectively addressed for a better response to WSV. The main objectives were to create a solid network between services providers and enhance their understanding of the working condition of each department. On a strategic plan, the OPP elaborated the protocol for the care of women and girls victims of violence for professionals of the judicial sector in Morocco which also provides clear engagements from various concerned institutions such as the Ministry of Justice, the national police forces, the Royal Gendarmerie, the Ministry of Health, and the Women's machinery. As a follow up, various circulars and communiqués have been issued by said-departments to highlight the importance of the protocol's strict application for the care and protection of WVV. Thanks to efforts of sensitization by UNW to its partners, the production of data, knowledge, and communication tools has been highlighted as an important aspect of informing VAW policies. In this regard: (i) the High Commision for Planning produced, with UN Women support, various animation videos and infographics to inform, raise awareness, and sensitize the general public about VAW, its socio-economic impacts, and its costing; (ii) the Office of the Public Prosectuor published the first institutional study on the prevalence of child marriage, which was conducted internally, and provided, for the first time, concrete qualitative and quantitative official data and knowledge on the phenomenon. One of the main findings was that cases involving child marriages take less than a day to be authorized and in a majority of cases, the judge is the only person making that decision (not relying on social workers, as the law stipulates); (iii) the police forces has published, for the first time, national statistics on VAW (including the number of complaints received and processed, number of complaints dropped, authors' profiles, etc.). All these capacity-building, production of knowledge and advocacy efforts were supported by awareness-raising initiatives throughout the year but also during the 16 Days campaign which, despite again going digital this year, has once again widened its audience. New partners joined the “Orange the World” operation, including private sector companies, a dedicated campaign by the national TV and radio channel 2M was implemented, several joint UN communication initiatives/production of communication tools were organized, and EVAW communication tools disseminated on social media. Based on the progress made to date, the original strategy and theory of change for this outcome is still applicable.