Costing of Protection Orders and Community

Coordinated Response to DV in Albania

Center for Legal and Civic Initiatives and UN Women

Presented by: Rezart XheloSeptember 2013

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BackgroundAdoption of the Law on Measures against Violence in

Family Relations in 2007.

High society attention to the phenomenon, high awareness and agenda of international partners and the Government;

It followed the costing of the National Strategy on Gender Equality and Eradication of DV;

It served the implementation of the “Community Coordinated Response towards Domestic Violence (CCR)” set up in 11 municipalities;

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Purpose/MotivationTo assess costs of DV, i.e. the cost implications for actors like: State

Police, District Prosecution, Judicial District Courts, Local Government,

Health Care Services, Social Services, and survivors involved in

a DV case;

To provide costing models to the local

government with the scope of preparing

basic budgets.

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Partnership In agreement with Ministry of Labour, Social

Affairs and Equal Opportunities (MoLSAEO) UN Women sought services of the CLCI, because of their long-standing experience with drafting DV law, legal counseling and court monitoring;

Other partners who provided access to information and data: State Police, District CourtsFour pilot Municipalities (Tirana, Durres, Korca and

Vlora)

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Methodology Designed to identify:

Means and work-time spent by all involved actors while addressing a DV case;

Variables used were time and money;

Tailor-made questionnaires;

Lawyers & law

practitioners

Economist

Gender/DV

with assistance of an internationa

l expert

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Information used- Frequency and trend of

reported DV cases- Administrative costs

- Sought of services beyond the CCR system

Work-time used by actors in addressing

a DV case:

Cases only reported in the institutions within the CCR system;

Type of DV case, either simple or a complicated case (ratio);

Steps followed by duty-bearers in addressing a DV case,

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Links to the implementation of LMVFR

Helpful to local Government planning and budgeting;

Good enough to highlight the importance of additional services such as:

Legal counseling – for an effective and timely response to DV, Formal cooperation between state and non-state institutions

Concrete budgetary requirements per actor/partner were provided for budgeting purpose.

The cost for a single DV case is estimated

Alignment with the implementation of NSGE-GBV and DV as well as CEADW concluding recommendations were proposed.

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The study as an advocacy tool

Planning & budgetingResults:

with institutions like state police, district courts and district prosecution, so to secure sufficient personnel and

infrastructure to respond to the DV

phenomenon;

with Ministry of Finance, Ministry of

Justice and Ministry of Interior, in order to

plan additional budget lines for the referral mechanism of DV;

Appointing of personnel dealing with DV and Family issues;

Request for trainings by institutions;

Few budget lines increased for State police and others;

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Challenges

Weak coordinat

ion of actors within

the CCR system

Only few institutio

ns adopted

to an extend

budgetary

requirements

Data discrepan

cy between

state institutions and NGO

service providers

Challenges

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Lessons learnedConsultation: participatory

approach to validate findings is extremely important;

Political will is a requirement;

Involvement of national gender machinery is required;

Policy and laws might not be result oriented, therefore all need to be translated in action plans.

Data needed: reliable and available;

Alignment of DV costing with current policies at national level; - translation of National strategies into local action plans;

Participatory budgeting process at local level;

Capacity strengthening of service providers to raise efficiency, thus reduce costs;

Recommendations