Group 2 - Data Collection

#1 Challenges obtaining data from Administrative records Commitment by Key Stakeholders to provide data Personnel not properly trained – Poor data collection Confidentiality of the source data Bureaucracy permissions delay release Late reporting by victims Poor dis-aggregation of data

Challenges cont’d No standardised reporting system among agencies Inconsistency in data collection No conceptualisation of concepts and outcomes Poor recording techniques Officers not properly trained

#2 Obstacles to regular and periodic collection Absence of legislations and policies to regulate the practices Low buy-in; Lack of Institutional commitment Inadequate human and financial resource and expertise Weak documentation No conceptualisation of variables and outcomes

#3 Central Site for data collection Dominica – Yes Bureau of Gender Affairs St. Kitts – No Trinidad and Tobago – Yes Dom. Violence Unit Belize – Yes St. Vincent – No Grenada - No

#3 cont’d how collected Dominica – Research Officer contacts agencies and collects data (initially). Sources are req’d to fill forms and submit St. Kitts – No Belize – Field data collection from various dept’s ; review data for quality control; clerks enter data and electronic transfer to central office where Add’l quality checks are done

#3 c For persons saying NO How and which sources St. Kitts –St Vincent Police, Justice System,Health, Gender, NGOs, Create standardised template. Each source.submit monthly return CRO/Stats Office Police create DV as a variable in mthly reporting system. Enter in Crime register. Domestic Violence Template. Station sends a monthly return to statistics office

#3 c For persons saying NO How and which sources Grenada DV Unit within Min. of Social Dev, Police, legal Aid and Counselling Clinic, NGOs Form designed placed in each station. Officer records information on form. Submitted to the Officer in DV Unit monthly from each station

Grenada cont’d Other Sources should use the same format for ease of comparison Each source to deliver data to DV Unit in MoSD

#4 Strategies to avoid multiple counting Name, Age and DoB, Sex – Type of Offence and Time – Dominica Grenada, Belize,SVG,

#5-Strategies-Acts of violence related with one another Time and date of incident and persons involved (victims and perpetrator) Address Separate charges / incidents

#6- Dep’t for Central Registry Belize – Min. of Health ; Dominica – Statistical Dep’t SVG - Police -have an interest in the issue St Kitts Nevis Police- let them continue Grenada – MoSD, have policies geared to the reduction and eradication Trinidad and Tobago – CSO, infrastructure in place, must make available to ALL