| dc.description.abstract | “Traces of Violence: Capacity Building
Project for Monitoring Legal Data to Combat
Violence Against Women” Project started on
16 August 2021 and was implemented in a
12-month period under the partnership of
the Association for Equal Generations and
Ankara Bar Association. The Contracting
Authority of the Project is the “Association
for Monitoring Gender Equality (CEİD)”.
The overall aim of the project, envisaged to
be completed on 16 August 2022, is to
strengthen non-governmental organisations
active in the field of rights-based gender
equality in order to achieve gender equality
and participatory democracy more
effectively in Turkey. Thus, it aims to
contribute to the effective fight against
violence by increasing the monitoring
capacity regarding the effective
implementation of Law No. 6284, increasing
the advocacy capacity of stakeholders and
raising awareness on legal support
mechanisms in the combat against violence.
The project is implemented as a rights-based
monitoring approach, and it is also aimed to
evaluate the applications made by women
victims of violence to Ankara Bar Association
Gelincik Centre according to indicators, to
monitor the effectiveness of legal
mechanisms in the combat against violence
and to formulate an evidence-based policy
within this project. The direct target group of
the project is the staff and volunteer lawyers
of Gelincik Centre of Ankara Bar
Association. The indirect target group of the
project is non-governmental organisations
(NGOs) working with women victims of
violence, other stakeholder institutions,
women and children who are victims of
violence.
This report is prepared to present the
methodology and the findings of the
"Activity 1.4 Data evaluation on the
enforcement of the Law No. 6284 in
preventing violence" carried out within the
project. It is envisaged that this project, in
which strategies and approaches aiming to
strengthen the advocacy capacity of
stakeholders and actors will be
implemented, as well as activities focusing
on data collection and reporting, will
contribute to the development of policy
recommendations for the prevention of
violence against women and gender-based
violence and the establishment of effective
intervention mechanisms.
Violence against women is a violation of
human rights and is mainly caused by
gender inequalities. The İstanbul Convention
and the Law No. 6284, drafted on the basis
of this convention, is one of the most
important legal achievements in the combat
against violence in Turkey, and it is the most
important law that protects those who are exposed to violence and entails measures to
prevent violence. In line with the obligations
arising from international conventions, it is
necessary to collect data and monitor the
violence and the functioning of intervention
mechanisms.
In the following sections of the report,
current national and international legislation
on the prevention of gender-based violence,
data on violence, examples of good practices
in collecting administrative data, main
problem areas, the scope and methodology
of the quantitative and qualitative field
study, the findings obtained from the study,
and finally, recommendations for the
development of legal mechanisms in the
combat against violence against women are
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