Women and Girls, especially from particular groups (with disabilities, rural, sexual and gender minorities) from target countries, who experience violence have access to quality essential services (health, social service, police and justice) to recover from violence
This outcome is about increasing access to quality essential services in the health, social services, police and justice systems for women and girl survivors of violence. Work under this outcome focuses on strengthening systems of reporting, and coordination of quality services and support for women who experience violence. This work intersects between multiple focus areas including health, counselling, justice services and coordination.
Number of countries that have developed national frontline service delivery information management systems (proxy)
Number of coordination Meetings
- Complementary Indicator UNAIDS, UNFPA
- Complementary Indicator UNICEF
SP 3.10.1: Number of new and/or improved gender-responsive policies on land developed and/or being implemented with the support of UN-Women
SP 3.10.2: Number of rural women supported to gain access, use and/or control of productive resources by UN-Women
SP 3.10.3: Number of countries that use the Buy from Women Platform to connect women farmers to information, markets and/or finance (info might still be collected through RMS)
SDG 5.2.1: Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual, or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age (Desk Review)
- SDG Indicator 5.2.1
- Common Indicator UNDP, UNFPA, WHO
- Complementary Indicator UNICEF
SP 4.11.3: Number of countries supported by UN-Women to improve guidelines, protocols, standard operating procedures (in line with best practices) on the provision of quality services for victims and survivors
SP 4.11.4: Number of countries that provide information about women's rights to access quality essential services for victims and survivors of violence, with UN-Women's support
SDG 5.2.2 Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence (Desk Review)
- SDG Indicator 5.2.2
- Common Indicator UNDP, WHO
Number of countries supported by UN Women to improve guidelines, protocols, standard operating procedures (in line with best practices) on the provision of quality services for victims and survivors (SP indicator 11.3)
Number of new VAWG guidelines, protocols and materials produced that aligned with Essential Services best practice standards
Number of countries supported to develop and/or implement guidelines, protocols and standard operating procedures to strengthen EVAWG services in line with the Essential Services Package (CO)
Number of national actors (government, civil society) participating in VAWG response training, learning and knowledge sharing supported by UN Women in Fiji
Number of national actors (government, civil society) participating in VAWG response training, learning and knowledge sharing supported by UN Women in Kiribati
Number of national actors (government, civil society) participating in VAWG response training, learning and knowledge sharing supported by UN Women in the Solomon Islands
Number of national actors (government, civil society) participating in VAWG response training, learning and knowledge sharing supported by UN Women in Tonga
Number of national actors (government, civil society) participating in VAWG response training, learning and knowledge sharing supported by UN Women in countries outside of Fiji, Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Tonga
Number of institutions with strengthened capacities to improve the provision of essential services, goods and/or resources for women (CO)
Number of coordination meetings with partners organized that UN Women leads to support efficient implementation pf the Action under PPEVAWG
Percentage of total delivery rate
Extent to which donor reports are meeting donor and UN Women compliance
Women and Girls, especially from particular groups (with disabilities, rural, sexual and gender minorities) from target countries, who experience violence have access to quality essential services (health, social service, police and justice) to recover from violence
Despite community transmission of COVID-19 in Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Tonga, women and girls in all their diversity were able to continue to access quality gender-based violence (GBV) services from essential service providers as a result of UN Women coordinated preparedness activities developed and implemented in partnership with national women’s machineries and civil society organizations (CSOs). For the first time ever, women and girls from more rural and hard to reach locations had access to survivor-centred response services, with the capacity of frontline workers built and rollout of Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Fiji service delivery systems rolled out to outer islands/provinces/divisions. In response to the volcano-tsunami-COVID crisis in Tonga, women and children received access to essential services and psychosocial support through holistic mobile services including GBV essential and non-essential through the Tonga Women and Children’s Crisis Center. Within 24 hours, local responders were at the helm on conducting safety audits and providing culturally-relevant counselling and referral support to the most at-risk women and girls. Also, UN Women significantly enhanced the Government of Tonga’s capacity to respond to emergencies by strengthening existing systems and mechanisms of the national women’s machinery. Moreover, GBV referral data is now kept safely and confidentially, with coordinated systems and tools in place to support this. Members of the Kiribati and Solomon Islands SafeNet/SAFENET networks now have the knowledge and skills to use the GBV administrative data system. Finally, Kiribati’s Ministry of Women, Youth, Sports and Social Affairs (MWYSSA) has for the first time formally registered GBV counsellors on the national government registry for Domestic Violence (DV) Counsellors, a milestone in ensuring standardized, safe and best practice delivery of GBV counselling. Regional efforts culminated in a historic Regional Services Symposium that brought together over 100 diverse representatives from across the region to articulate and come to consensus on key recommendations to drive service delivery quality in the region. An Outcomes Document articulates key areas of focus and lays out the first regional roadmap for responding to survivors of gender-based violence. The recommendations informed the 3 rd Regional Working Group on DV Legislation and are a key document to inform the Pacific Leader’s Gender Equality Declaration alongside other regional frameworks.Disclaimer and notes
References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).