[{"bbox": [96, 152, 1134, 469], "category": "Text", "text": "This action will contribute to the MIP Priority Area 2 “Governance and Human Rights”, SO 2.2.3. “Reinforced indigenous peoples’ rights and fight against gender-based violence policies. This action is aligned with the EU Gender Action Plan –GAP III (5.2 y 16.b) and will contribute to SO2 of the JES 2022-25 “Promote the rights and peaceful coexistence of the Bolivian people in a representative, participatory, intercultural and equal democracy”. This action is also aligned with the objective 3.1 of the GAPIII plan “Ensuring freedom from all forms of gender-based violence” and corresponds to the first priority of common engagement of the CLIP 2021-2025. This action also responds to the common objective of the EEC (Strategic Objective 1 – Sub objective 3) and foresees a strong participation of CSOs in the conception of the integrated model, promoting their monitoring role by strengthening the already ongoing dialogue between CSOs, authorities (both on local and national level) and EUMS cooperation, developed in the framework of the Bolivian Roadmap for engagement with civil society. This action will contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 5, 16 and 17, while respecting the principle of “leaving no one behind”."}, {"bbox": [96, 482, 1134, 749], "category": "Text", "text": "The action aims at supporting the National System to Fight Gender-based Violence, both on national level working with the Vice Ministry of Equality of Opportunities, as well as on local level by promoting access to integrated essential services for victims and preventive actions against GBV. It will also support the second National Survey of Prevalence and Characteristics of Violence against Women (EPCVcM), which is expected to be carried out by the National Statistics Institute in cooperation with the Vice Ministry of Equality of Opportunities in 2023-2024. Finally, the action will complement ongoing projects on Justice Reform (bilateral project implemented by AECID and UNODC, including a component aimed at supporting the GBV system at national level and ensuring a gender perspective in justice decisions); on women's political participation (CSO project implemented by OXFAM); and on Strengthening respect for human rights (NDICI Rapid Response Pillar project implemented by the OHCHR including a strong focus on women's rights, fight against GBV)."}, {"bbox": [86, 774, 289, 801], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.2 Problem Analysis"}, {"bbox": [96, 816, 940, 843], "category": "Text", "text": "The main challenges identified in the fight against gender-based violence are the following:"}, {"bbox": [96, 854, 1134, 936], "category": "Text", "text": "**At the system level to fight GBV:** The Bolivian legislative framework on the GBV is relatively strong, and this thematic area is framed as a main issue among public management priorities. Nevertheless, there remain major structural challenges that affect women's rights to have a life free from all forms of violence."}, {"bbox": [96, 947, 1134, 1078], "category": "Text", "text": "There is a lack of operational mechanisms to implement laws and legislation at national and subnational levels, and a lack of alignment between national and subnational public policies with newly developed national regulations. Together, these challenges result in a failure to translate the national legislative framework into effective public policies and a failure of implementation, which could enable the transformation of the lives of women."}, {"bbox": [96, 1093, 1134, 1173], "category": "Text", "text": "At local level the insufficient territorial coverage, coordination deficiencies and the lack of a comprehensive approach to service delivery and professional trained staff are factors hindering women's full access to service for women and girls who are victims of violence."}, {"bbox": [96, 1184, 1134, 1478], "category": "Text", "text": "There is also a lack of a robust system of data collecting at all levels. The data collected on GBV is still fragmented, diverse and unreliably, which affects the level of information provided to decision makers, on the incidence and prevalence of various forms of violence against women. The first national survey on the GBV was undertaken in 2016 and needs to be updated to better understand the trends and evolution of the various forms of violence. Without this follow-up survey, the State will not be able to measure trends and assess the effectiveness and impacts of the governmental public policy response. National funds are not enough to cover the financial needs of the survey nor to ensure a proper methodology or a solid sample. While recognising that in five years the sustainability for financing such a survey with national funds has not been guaranteed, the need of counting with reliable data for policy evaluation and evidence-based policy justifies the financial support through this Action. International support will also ensure quality backstopping over the methodology to be applied by the INE/VIO, and to ensure comparability with the first edition."}, {"bbox": [96, 1489, 1134, 1622], "category": "Text", "text": "The main public policies to address femicides and GBV are the comprehensive policy ‘Para una Vida Digna de las Mujeres” adopted in 2017, the law 348 on Violence against Women and law 243 on political violence against women. These were passed at the central government level, although there are major challenges to implementation at national and sub-national level. Given the characteristics of autonomy and divisions of state competencies of the different sub-national levels of government (departmental, municipal, and recently recognised indigenous"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1680, 1142, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 6 of 31"}]