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20 March 2025
Resource
Conducting a national study on the prevalence of violence against women: LESSONS LEARNED IN MONGOLIA
UNFPA Mongolia and the National Statistical Office (NSO), with financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, conducted the 2017 study on the prevalence of violence against women in Mongolia. The kNOwVAWdata Initiative (funded by Australian DFAT) provided technical support to the planning and implementation of the study and developed these lessons learned to reflect the study’s experiences. This publication provides insights into overcoming the challenges that arise when implementing a national prevalence study. It intends to inform and inspire donors, planners, organizers and coordinators of violence against women prevalence studies worldwide. The contributions of several people made this document possible. Many thanks go to the former Mongolia Statistics Office Chair, Ms A. Ariunzaya and her dedicated staff, including lead statistician Ms N. Doljinsuren and her team. Also to Ms Z. Khandarmaa, coordinator of the Women’s Health and Life Experiences study, and UNFPA colleagues in the Mongolia Country Office, former Country Representative, Ms Naomi Kitihara and Gender Advisor, Ms B. Oyun. Most importantly, we also thank the field interviewers and qualitative researchers who worked on the Mongolia study. We can learn a great deal from their experiences. Dr Henrica A.F.M. (Henriette) Jansen, former Technical Advisor to kNOwVAWdata Initiative at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Asia and the Pacific Regional Office, provided technical support to the Mongolia study implementation, together with Ms Jessica Gardner, VAW data consultant. This report includes reflections from their involvement. Based on a range of contributions, Ms Gardner drafted this publication and provided editorial support.
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10 March 2025
Publication
Violence Against Women - Regional Snapshot (2024) - kNOwVAWdata
This 2024 snapshot is the eighth annual edition of this publication. The data reflect the most recent data collected with, in most cases, the WHO methodology, the DHS or MICS domestic violence module. The data presented is the most comparable available, but should not be directly compared without considering several important factors, as explained in the snapshot. The snapshot includes data from countries in Asia and the Pacific where UNFPA has an operational presence, as well as Australia and New Zealand, reflecting a broader regional context and partnerships in addressing violence against women and girls.
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14 October 2024
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Understanding technology-facilitated gender-based violence in Asia: A qualitative study
Technology-facilitated gender-based violence is an emerging form of gender-based violence that is rapidly growing but is not well understood. This report starts to redress this gap and presents findings from a regional study with diverse stakeholders in Asia.
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31 October 2023
Resource
A Guide to Better Understanding and Using Violence Against Women Prevalence Data
This guide presents an overview of the basic concepts and principles of violence against women (VAW) prevalence data.
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31 October 2023
Resource
Data on Violence Against Women: Key Messages
This document provides an overview of key concepts on violence against women data that can be applied globally. It is intended to serve as a complementary resource to a longer technical report entitled "A Guide to Better Understanding and Using Violence Against Women Prevalence Data."
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06 December 2023
Resource
Checklist for ensuring the quality of violence against women surveys
This checklist is designed to help national statistics offices and other national research and data institutions and research teams to think through the steps needed to produce high-quality survey data on intimate partner violence — from the planning stages through to analysis, report write-up and dissemination of accurately interpreted findings.
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24 November 2023
Publication
Conducting a national study on the prevalence of violence against women: Lessons learned from Mongolia
This document aims to help other program and project coordinators and researchers undertaking violence against women prevalence surveys to anticipate and address some of the challenges they may face. It contains lessons learned gathered after completing the Mongolia study and launching the results. Key people involved have shared their experiences establishing partnerships with stakeholders, recruiting and managing an effective team of interviewers, preparing for and conducting the fieldwork, and translating the results into action.
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15 August 2023
Fact Sheet
Violence Against Women - Regional Snapshot (2023) - kNOwVAWdata
This 2023 snapshot is the seventh annual edition of this publication. The data reflect the most recent data collected with either the WHO methodology, the DHS-DV (domestic violence) module, or the UNECE VAW module. The data in this publication are sourced from publicly available survey reports, as of August 2023.
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23 May 2023
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2023 kNOwVAWdata face to face course: Capacity building to measure the prevalence of violence against women
The kNOwVAWdata course increases skills and knowledge of individuals working on national prevalence surveys, data, and reporting of violence against women. With a focus on safe and ethical methods, the course covers risk mitigation from survey design through to responsible reporting and dissemination. The University of Melbourne (UoM) will be recommencing face to face delivery of the kNOwVAWdata course in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS), and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The course responds to Sustainable Development Goal reporting needs for comparative, ongoing and improved measures of the prevalence of violence against women.
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31 August 2022
Fact Sheet
Violence Against Women - Regional Snapshot (2022) - kNOwVAWdata
2022 Asia-Pacific snapshot on the prevalence of violence against women
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