[{"bbox": [97, 152, 1134, 207], "category": "Text", "text": "of socio-cultural factors contributing to the phenomenon of “violence normalisation”, leading to propagation and impunity."}, {"bbox": [95, 217, 1136, 776], "category": "Text", "text": "To respond to this situation, the Bolivian Government has taken on the challenge to end all forms of violence, especially the gender-based violence, 2022 having been declared as the year of “the Cultural Revolution for Depatriarchalisation to achieve a life free of violence for women”. The Bolivian government centralised the responsibility of the coordination of the fight against GBV in one institution: the General Directorate against Gender and Genderational Violence, which is organised under the Ministry Department of Equality of Opportunities. Also, in the last two years, the Bolivian Government has advanced in the creation of institutions and instruments to strengthen State actions against violence directed at women and children. In November 2018, a special division to fight violence against women and children was created, made up of seven ministries. In March 2019, the work of the Plurinational Service for Women and Depatriarchalisation (SEPMUD) started. In that same year, specialised Prosecutor’s Offices were created to prevent life, Sexual and Gender-based violence Crimes. The same concerns were introduced at the level of strategical politics and policies: the Bolivian Economic and Social Development Plan (PDES) 2021-2025, includes specifically the diminution of GBV in the objectives of the Pillar 7 and the Bolivian government adopted, in 2017, a comprehensive policy ‘Para una Vida Digna de las Mujeres’, and laws 348 on Violence against Women and 243 on political violence against women. Also, The National Institute of Statistics (INE) in collaboration with the Vice Ministry of Equality of Opportunities, carried out in 2016 the first National Survey of Prevalence and Characteristics of Violence against Women (EPCVcM), which provided valuable baseline information for estimating the forms and prevalence of violence (physical, psychological, sexual and patrimonial) that women suffer or have suffered, both in the public and private sphere as well as on their perception about the institutional response. This first edition was supported by Spain and GIZ and it committed for a follow-up survey within 5 years (but it has been delayed due to the political changes and pandemics)."}, {"bbox": [95, 786, 1136, 1266], "category": "Text", "text": "However, the approach to fight GBV suffers from weaknesses derived from inadequate adaptation of this mandate at the institutional level, limited staff and technical capacities, insufficient budgets, lack of transformative and comprehensive approach and a limited coverage. For public institutions to report GBV and similar cases, there are 101 Police Units (Special Forces to Combat Violence-FELCV) in 69 municipalities, only covering 21.1% of the 339 municipalities. The FEVAP (Specialised Division of the Prosecutor’s Office for Attention to Priority Victims) and the Prosecutor’s Office for Miscellaneous Cases are only present in 33, 5% of municipalities and almost all of those services are concentrated in large urban cities. Regarding social protection, a study conducted by the IDB and the Swiss Cooperation in 2019, on the quality of public spending in the fight against gender-based violence, shows that budget allocated to rights and services promotion is low; the amount allocated at national level ranges from 3,5 % to 5% from the total budget and in municipalities it reaches 5% which is focused on cases-reporting and not on prevention of the underlying causes. At the municipal level, prevention programmes’ coverage fell from 68% in 2019 to 49% in 2020; the staff rate specialised in GBV is very low (5 per thousand cases adjudicated) and the training is deficient; staff trained on gender violence issues only reaches 29% of staff on average. Most of the relevant staff is placed in urban municipalities. This means that rural municipalities’ struggle to get result from the frailty of violence victim’s assistance services, as well as a serious lack of access to justice, protection and prevention mechanisms. This gap triggers a double discrimination and vulnerability for indigenous and rural women and girls, since they are not able to report cases of violence due to their situation of poverty, socio-cultural limitations, difficulties in accessing assistance centers, and lack of knowledge of their citizens rights."}, {"bbox": [95, 1276, 1136, 1597], "category": "Text", "text": "Seeing this context, the proposed 30 months of action are composed of 3 outcomes that will be implemented simultaneously and in a comprehensive manner to contribute to the overall goal of ending all forms of GBV. The 3 outcomes are based on evidence, research, and demonstrated practice and programmes that shows the need for coordinated intervention addressing the underlying causes of GBV. By doing so, the action will contribute to strengthening institutional capacities and accountabilities for improved health and judicial responses such as increased availability, accessibility and quality of essential plurisectorial services, and enabling the collection of reliable data globally comparable. The reinforcement of the Civil Society and in particular the feminists, local OSCs and the OSCs representing populations who suffer from various discriminations and the integration of this essential stakeholders in all the processes, will not only permit an efficiency and effectiveness of the action but also assure a strong sustainability of the impact and the best guarantee that the action will be carried out in alignment with the goal to “leaving no one behind”. A transformative approach will be applied in order to change social gender cultural patterns."}, {"bbox": [1037, 1680, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 5 of 31"}]