Indicators
The MESECVI designed a System of Progress Indicators to report on the State’s actions, the objective being to monitor compliance with the obligations according to each right and commitment set forth in the Convention of Belém do Pará.
The indicators offer an overview of how the materialization of the rights contained in the Convention is progressing and generate a sense of obligation on the part of the States.
How are they determined?
The Committee of Experts interprets the obligations of the Belém do Pará Convention to develop indicators that reflect the state of compliance with these obligations.
For example:
- Article 1 “Violence against women shall be understood as any action or conduct, based on gender, which causes death or physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women, both in the public and private spheres.”.
- Article 7 “The States Parties agree to adopt such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to this Convention”.
Obligation: to legislate on violence against women that occurs both in the public and private spheres..
Progress indicator: Evolution of the law on domestic violence to laws of comprehensive or second-generation violence.
We use this process to:
- Quantify and qualify the process to make women’s human rights effective..
- Learn if there are public policies, plans or specific activities for each obligation and if the State is guaranteeing mechanisms for claims, complaints or access to justice for these obligations.
- Establish if the information is regular, reliable, systematic, and respects the methodological guidelines.
What do we measure?
- Legislation
- National plans
- Access to justice
- Information and statistics
- Diversity
- Budget
Click here to view the indicators on Legislation, National Plans, Access to Justice, Information and Statistics, or Diversity.
The system of indicators consists of a series of structural, process and results indicators:
- Structural indicators reflect the ratification or adoption of basic international legal instruments to facilitate the realization of a fundamental human right. At the national level, they identify whether measures, legal norms, strategies, policies, plans or programs have been adopted, or public agencies created to implement women’s rights.
For example:
| Legislation indicators | National Plan indicators | Access to Justice indicators | Information and statistics indicators | Diversity indicators |
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Incorporation of Belém do Pará in domestic law (at the constitutional, supralegal, or legal level) |
National plan, policy, action, strategy for the prevention, attention, and eradication of violence against girls and adolescents, adult women and elderly women in its different forms |
Existence of legislation on protective measures, at the request of the victim or third parties or on an ex officio basis, before and during administrative and/or judicial proceedings |
Regulations covering the State’s obligation to conduct regular surveys on different manifestations of violence against girls and adolescents, adult women and elderly women |
Law or national policy on the guarantees of a life without violence that addresses ethnic diversity |
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Specific laws on violence that include budgetary allocations |
Percentage of public spending allocated to the different plans, strategies, and programs on violence against women in the last fiscal period |
Funding of assistance services, free legal representation, and other services |
Specific laws including budgetary allocations for meeting information production |
Specific laws that include budgetary allocations for meeting the obligation of ensuring the adoption of the measures enshrined in the Convention of Belém do Pará and national law, free of discrimination |
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Attention protocols for ensuring the enforcement of provisions enacted in connection with different forms of violence |
Number of shelters and homes for victims of violence against women and their children |
Existence of agencies for receiving complaints |
Existence of offices, secretariats, or specialized state mechanisms for producing information, studies, and statistics |
Existence of protocols for the comprehensive attention of cases of violence against women (in its different forms), prepared in languages and in a format accessible for people with disabilities |
- Process indicators seek to measure the quality and magnitude of State efforts to implement the rights protected through measurement of the reach, coverage and content of strategies, policies, plans, programs and other specific activities and interventions.
For example:
| Legislation indicators | National Plan indicators | Access to Justice indicators | Information and statistics indicators | Diversity indicators |
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Number of reports presented by the country to international oversight agencies in connection with the right to a life without violence |
Civil society participation in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of the national plan/action/strategy |
Judgments and rulings that make use of and include the Convention of Belém do Pará |
Number of reports presented by the country to international oversight agencies in connection with the right to a life without violence, using official information, studies, and statistics |
Processes for preparing laws or national policies guaranteeing a life without violence that take into account diversity in all its forms |
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Publication of reports on budget allocations and execution |
Percentage of social public spending allocated to ensuring a life without violence |
Periodic reports of accountability for the financial management of resources for access to justice for women victims of violence |
Percentage of public spending assigned to the development of databases with information on different forms of violence |
Number of reports prepared and published with information on effective budget execution |
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Participatory processes for the drafting of attention protocols for ensuring the enforcement of provisions |
Accessibility and availability of care services for victims of different forms of violence, by jurisdiction and geographical region |
Number of women lodging complaints for violence with the police |
Processes for negotiating agreements and/or cooperative technical ties between the national women’s mechanism / the competent authorities for violence (at different public agencies) |
Number of interpreters for indigenous, rural, girls and adolescents, adult women and elderly women or those who do not speak the official language |
- Results indicators reflect the individual and collective achievements that point to the status of realization of a human right in a specific context, and seek to measure the real impact of State strategies, programs and interventions.
For example:
| Legislation indicators | National Plan indicators | Access to Justice indicators | Information and statistics indicators | Diversity indicators |
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Number of girls and adolescents, adult women and elderly women by age group who report being victims of any form of violence |
Monitoring and impact assessment of policies, national plans, actions, strategies, in terms of their different components |
Number and percentage of girls and adolescents, adult women and elderly women who access the emergency kit in institutions |
Regular publication of statistics prepared and studies carried out |
Violence rate among salaried or non-salaried women, by type of violence, age, ethnic origin, country of origin, and socioeconomic level |
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Percentage of budget spending allocated to programs, plans, and agencies related to different forms of violence against women |
Percentage of public spending allocated in the last fiscal period for the implementation of programs of violence against women by implementing institution (public and/or private) or the expenditure items |
Average investment funds involving each of the stages of criminal proceedings according to the institution involved |
Percentage of the execution of the budget allocated for programs, plans, and institutions related to different forms of violence against women |
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Monitoring reports of knowledge, understanding and application of specific protocols and regulations on the rights of women, as part of regular assessments to access incentives, credits, ranks |
Rate of demand for attention (number of women served over the past twelve months, divided by the total female population, multiplied by 1000) |
The number of convictions for violence against women in proportion to the total number of reports |
Number of public sector institutions that have specific units on generation of statistical information |
Percentage of indigenous, rural, girls and boys attending intercultural schools |