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2023 Womanity Index (State Reports)
Womanity Index is an annual, data-driven, and evidence-based assessment of the performance of subnational governments in preventing and responding to gender-based violence. Each state’s performance is evaluated based on 18 indicators across five indexes: Laws and Policies, Access to Legal Justice, Support Services, Information and Awareness, and Budget and Spending. Womanity Index addresses the critical need for subnational data that not only reflects the efforts and performance of state governments but also informs policies, funding priorities, and strategic actions for effective prevention and response to gender-based violence.
Existence and quality of state laws and policies that criminalizes GBV, with regular reviews to remove provisions that inadvertently perpetuate GBV, while addressing harmful customary norms and socio-cultural practices that enable GBV.
Easy, timely, and equitable access to legal justice through effective reporting, prosecution, and enforcement processes that are free from discrimination and bureaucracy. It entails the existence of specialized GBV courts with trained officials, designated judges, accessible legal aid, effective witness protection, enforcement of court judgments, and the regular publication of a Sex Offenders’ Register. The index also examines community-level informal justice systems, evaluating their overall effectiveness and alignment with justice principles.
Availability of comprehensive support services—medical, mental health, legal, economic—for all GBV survivors, provided through state-run Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) and/or shelters that are governed by Standard Operating Procedures, including being accessible across the state and proportionate to the state’s population. The index also assesses the presence of user-friendly, subnational-level Reporting and Referral Pathways, including strengthening of informal support networks.
Regular provision and wide dissemination of clear, user-friendly, and equally accessible information, education, and communication (IEC) materials about GBV. It also assesses the availability and usage of a comprehensive sex education curriculum in schools in the state.
Specific budget lines and allocation to address GBV by the state’s Ministry of Women Affairs, including actual release and spend as a percentage of the state’s female population.
Based on the assessment of data and evidence, each state is assigned two distinct sets of colour-coded grades: an Overall Grade, reflecting the state’s average score across all indexes and indicators relative to other states, and Index Grades, representing the state’s performance in each of the five indexes. Each colour-coded grade is described thus:
A combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies was employed for the Womanity Index research to provide a comprehensive understanding of gender-based violence (GBV) in each state of Nigeria. The quantitative approach focused on collecting data from respondents using structured questionnaires, while the qualitative approach involved engaging key stakeholders to gather in-depth insights into systemic challenges and policy implementation. A team of 37 State Research Consultants (SRCs) are trained and deployed to collect the initial data, while a six-member Report Consolidation Team (RCT) carry out report cleaning, validation, and consolidation.
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