GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLSCOUNTRY-PROFILEDEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGOMEASURESSYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND COLLECTING DATA AND PROVIDING EARLY WARNINGS OF CASES OF GBV IN SCHOOLS
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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO | AFRICA
System for Monitoring and Collecting Data and Providing Early Warnings of Cases of GBV in Schools
Type of Measure
Administrative data > Social services
Form of Violence
Violence against women and girls
Year
2015
Brief Description
Setting up a system for monitoring and collecting data and providing early warnings of cases of GBV in schools, through structures involving pupils, parents' associations, teachers' associations, school headmasters and community members, with a view to improving referrals for assistance, better analysing the problem and adapting solutions. During the 2015-2016 school year, 11,530 cases of violence, 6,017 acts of discrimination against girls and 2,834 acts of discrimination against boys were reported, while for the 2016-2017 school year, these figures have been reduced to 4,289, 2,990 and 950 respectively.
Source of Information

Democratic Republic of the Congo' submission for National Review for Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, Beijing+25, 2019, p.38.

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