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multiple languages on “how to” design, implement, monitor and evaluate
programmes, as well as over 700 recommended tools in more than 50 languages,
with a fully searchable database. It draws on good practices, lessons learned and
evaluations generated by Governments, civil society organizations, researchers and
United Nations system agencies. To date, comprehensive programming modules
have been made available (each on average 200-300 pages), covering: programming
basics, monitoring and evaluation, safe cities, working with men and boys, and
formulating legislation — with more advanced for launch in 2011, including on
prevention, the health sector, the education sector and campaigns.
Expanding data collection, analysis and tracking systems
49. Data collection and analysis is another area of UNIFEM-supported efforts,
including to inform the development of effective public policies (e.g., in
Guinea-Bissau and the Republic of Moldova) and to support the efforts of women’s
networks in tracking progress (e.g., in Ecuador). Related to the launch of the Global
Safe Cities Free of Violence against Women Programme (see para. 56 below), a
joint research initiative in India was undertaken by the Department of Women and
Child Development, Government of Delhi, Jagori, the UNIFEM South Asia Office
and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), to bring
policy and public attention to the levels of sexual harassment and violence faced by
women in public spaces in the city of New Delhi. Another study was commissioned
on data- collection practices among selected agencies in South-East Europe, with a
focus on domestic violence, with a view to developing a set of indicators to track
the prevalence of violence against women and to monitor the institutional responses
to violent crimes against women.
Addressing sexual violence as a tactic of warfare
50. In 2010, UNIFEM began the second phase of a multi-country programme on
community-based peacebuilding and prevention of sexual and gender-based
violence, consisting of activities at the global level as well as in Haiti, Liberia,
Timor-Leste, and Uganda. These included, for example, technical capacity-building
of the police in those four countries — for example, trainings, the revision of
curricula, the provision of material inputs such as vehicles and communication
equipment so as to respond more effectively to violence against women, and
brokering regular interaction and trust-building activities with women’s
organizations, continued support for local community safety committees in Haiti,
the development of a monitoring and tracking system for gender-based violence
cases in Timor-Leste, and trainings of the judiciary on national jurisprudence on
gender-based violence in Liberia, as well as projected expansion of the “peace hut
model” as a good example of a women-led local protection strategy.
51. Under the umbrella of United Nations Action Against Sexual Violence in
Conflict, now chaired by the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General
on Sexual Violence in Conflict, UNIFEM has taken the lead on several activities:
mainly (a) advocacy, via the 200,000 “Get crossed” campaign, a petition to “Say no
to sexual violence in conflict”, and 26 Open Days on Women and Peace and
Security, co-organized with UNDP, the Department of Political Affairs and the
Department of Peacekeeping Operations, which culminated in a Global Open Day in
which women activists had a chance to present their demands, priorities and
recommendations to the United Nations leadership in their countries; (b) the launch
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