GENDER-RESPONSIVE

POLICING:
Nepal Police and Survivors of
Gender-Based Violence
18 November 2014

Karina Veal
Senior Social Sector Specialist, SARD
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WCSC Project
Original Project 5 districts
JFPR: $750,000
DFID: $195,000
Additional financing 15 new districts
DFID: $3,200,000
GDCF: $300,000
TASF: $500,000

Integrated approach
Legal Protection
Support Services
Preventive campaigns

Country

Percentage of
women in Police

Country

Percentage of
women in Police

Chile

11.3

Bangladesh

3.5

Nicaragua

27.4

Guatemala

11.1

Afghanistan

0.9

Sri Lanka

5.3

India

6.6

Norway

31

Nepal

5.0

Australia

24.4

Pakistan

0.94

Netherland

28.9

Gender-responsive Policing
GRP focuses on police reforms ensuring
that the principles of gender equality are
systematically integrated throughout all
police procedures, protocols, rules and
regulations, reinforced through gender
sensitive trainings and developing
monitoring and evaluation tools for
assessing these measures.

Support Services
Levels of GBV are high in Nepal
For children, intergenerational and direct
Consequences are severe
Infringement of womens human rights

Preventive Strategies
Community consultations
Awareness campaigns
Build community networks

Impact Statement
Reduce the vulnerability and helplessness of
women and children in Nepal by providing
professional and coordinated protection and
assistance to women and child victims of
rape, domestic violence, polygamy, alleged
witchcraft, child abuse, child marriage and
trafficking.

Outputs
(i) Output 1: Civil society consultations prior to establishing
WCSCs.
(ii) Output 2. Established the central WCSC in Kathmandu and
20 WCSCs in districts of Nepal.
(iii) Output 3. Strengthened institutional capacity of the Nepal
Police and civil society in dealing with crimes against women
and children.
(iv) Output 4. Expanded, strengthened, and institutionalized
networking on issues related to crimes against women and
children between the district WCSCs and supporting
agencies.

Results
(i) Increase of 30% in the number of reported crimes against
women and children in the first 2 years of implementation
(from 2009 baseline).
(ii) 50% increase in confidence in WCSCs and supporting
agencies by the end of the project.
(iii) At least 60% of crimes against women and children reported
in the last 2 years of the project are satisfactorily handled by
WCSCs and the supporting agencies.
(iv) By the end of the project, the number of reported crimes
against women and children that are prosecuted has
increased by 50%.

Not quite there yetD.

Reporting levels could be higher
Actual policing could be better

Cumulative Case Data of WCSCs in the Project Districts, after the

project Implementation, as of June 2013

Domestic violence
cases reported
Domestic violence
mediated
Domestic violence filed
at court
Social violence reported
Social violence
mediated
Social violence filed at
court
Lost women reported
Lost women found
Lost children reported
Lost children found
Source: Project report, June 2013

Bara
427

Rauthat
180

Danusha Doti
487
161

Jumla
258

391

148

170

18

257

27

22

33

239
199

17
14

288
22

9
9

59
59

63
39
18
8

18
11
34
26

28
16
44
8

24
7
31
7

6
4
17
17

Not quite there yetD.

Reporting levels not high enough
Actual policing could be better
SOPs across whole of Police better
integrated
Data collection could be better