Group 2 — Data Collection raymondsha msn com

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#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 Mo. SD

#4 Strategies to avoid multiple counting • Name, Age and Do. B, 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 – Mo. SD, have policies geared to the reduction and eradication • Trinidad and Tobago – CSO, infrastructure in place , must make available to ALL • • •