Report on the webinar Administrative Data Collection and Analysis on Violence against Women and Domestic Violence

Abstract

Webinar on “Administrative Data Collection and Analysis on Violence against Women and Domestic Violence” was organised on 30 November 2020, as part of the joint action “Fostering a comprehensive institutional response to violence against women and domestic violence in Turkey”. The action is funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe (within the “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”), together with the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Services, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Interior of Turkey. The webinar brought together national and international stakeholders to discuss guiding principles and methods of administrative data collection, dissemination of data and evidence-based policy making to effectively prevent and combat violence1 against women and domestic violence, in light of national and international standards, including the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (the Istanbul Convention). The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of experiences and (potential) promising practices from different countries in Europe, as presented at this webinar, which may be inspirational to Turkish authorities in strengthening their efforts to further develop administrative data collection and research on violence against women in Turkey. For the same reasons, relevant sources on data collection, which were mentioned by speakers at the webinar (but without further elaboration, due to time constrains) are explained in more detail, and the list of potentially useful resources (suggestions for further reading, including links) is provided at the end of this report.