Group 2 - Data Collection raymondsha@msn

1. Group 2 - Data Collection raymondsha@msn.com

2. #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

3. 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

4. #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

5. #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

6. #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

7. #3 c For persons saying NOHow 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

8. #3 c For persons saying NOHow 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

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

10. #4 Strategies to avoid multiple counting • Name, Age and DoB, Sex – Type of Offence and Time – Dominica Grenada, Belize,SVG,

11. #5-Strategies-Acts of violence related with one another • Time and date of incident and persons involved (victims and perpetrator) • Address • Separate charges / incidents

12. #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