Past Events

Measuring Gender Based Violence- GBV Project’s experience: Quantitative Approach

The series of joint CRRC-UNFPA seminars on the occasion of 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence continued with a presentation on Quantitative Approach to Measuring Gender Based Violence by Aysel Vazirova, National Coordinator of the UNFPA’s Combating Gender Based Violence Project and Murad Bagirzadeh, International Center for Social Research on November 27, 2008.

The first country-wide survey on Domestic Violence and Violence against women conducted within the frameworks of UNFPA-Azerbaijan’s project was presented by the guests. The survey aims to examine the prevalence, roots and consequences of violence against women. It included more than 100 questions on women’s attitude and experience of all kinds of domestic violence organized in the following sections: environment, general health, reproductive health, children, husband and attitude to violence.

The speakers talked about the techniques to facilitate the discussion on such a delicate issue used to solicit a candid response. The project has provided special training to female interviewers who then conducted interviews with 3000 women throughout the country. The data collected through the survey is currently being processed.

UNFPA received full support of the State Committee on Family, Women and Children's Affairs for implementation of the GBV Project in Azerbaijan.

The presentation was followed by a questions-answers session and many participants expressed their interest in learning the final results of the project, which are expected to be presented to the public in January 2009. Survey results could be used by researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including demography, anthropology, sociology and gender studies. The project also plans to provide support to local researchers for further qualitative studies on the subject.

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