Ideas regarding gender indicators for SSR and community security (prevention)

....and of course also Alice!

Björn :-)

Dear Oanh and Eren,

Thanks a lot for your thoughtful replies - very helpful!

Kind regards,

Björn

Hi Björn,

We're working on a project related to women's participation in security discussions related to SSR/G processes at the community level in Liberia. Here are some ideas for indicators that we've been using: 

• Types of formal or informal mechanisms (or alliances) between community leaders and/or CBOs and security actors on gender and SSR
• Level of understanding of gender and SSR
• Number of women that take on community leadership roles in their community
• Quality of instances where community leaders and/or community-based organisations work together on gender and security issues.

I hope that helps.

Alice

Dear Björn,

Thank you for your comment. I was on a similar research project in which we looked at the international jurisprudence pertaining to human rights due diligence standards. The cases we most explored focused on GBV. The aim was to find continuity between to different international instruments as well as apply programmatic monitoring and evaluation metrics to reflect evolving norms established in international human rights jurisprudence.

While doing some research on the topic, it had found that the OECD DACs Indicators for Gender Equality was a helpful starting point. It provides a useful database at the bottom with regional Latin American databases. (provided below)

• ECLAC Gender Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean (English and Spanish) http://www.cepal.org/estadisticas/bases/default.asp?idioma=IN.  Sex-disaggregated data on the situation of men and women in Latin American and the Caribbean at the national and regional levels.
• ECLAC Use of Gender Indicators in Public Policy Formulation (Spanish) http://www.eclac.cl/mujer/proyectos/indicadores/Default.htm
• Observatory of Gender Equity in Health (Spanish) http://www.observatoriogenerosalud.cl/ Aiming to support civil society in Chile, it includes social and demographic indicators on health and other areas.
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia http://www.escwa.un.org/divisions/teams.asp?teams=Social%20Statistics&division=SD
• United Nation’s Economic Commission for Europe’s (UNECE) Gender Statistics Website http://w3.unece.org/pxweb/DATABASE/STAT/Gender.stat.asp.  Bringing together gender statistics and policies, it focuses 10 on the production, dissemination and use of gender-related data, outlines some of the main gender issues relevant to the UNECE region.

Additionally, I believe BRIDGE has a section focused primarily on gender-based violence resources. Notable article I just glazed over but may be of interest include:

• methodologies to measure the gender dimensions of crime and violence
• provisión de información pública sobre los servicios especializados de atención a mujeres en situación de violencia doméstica a cargo del instituto nacional de las mujeres – mides;;
• committee on the elimination of discrimination against women thirty-first session: consideration of fifth periodic report of bangladesh. Summary records of the 653rd and 654th meetings ;
• How to guide: [sexual and gender-based violence] SGV programme monitoring and evaluation

I hope this serves as helpful. Best of luck in Honduras! 

Dear Björn,

Thank you very much for opening this forum discussion on gender indicators for SSR. We have looked at previous DCAF and ISSAT resources which might be useful to consider at this stage of the discussion. We were reminded that DCAF Gender and Security Division has produced a Gender Self Assessment Guide in 2011 which provides an overview of questions and considerations related to integrating gender into police, armed forces and justice reform efforts. This DCAF publication is available in 6 languages, unfortunately not in Spanish at the moment. 

I hope this document helps and we will make sure to provide references to other sources in response to this forum question as we identify them. 

Eren