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Data Collection and Analysis on Gender Dimensions of Violence in Post Conflict Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

Request For Proposals

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Country:   Fiji
Notice/Contract Number:   5697
Publication Date:   Jul 22, 2010
Deadline:   Aug 15, 2010
Funding Agency:   UNDP
Buyer:   UNDP Fiji
Original Language:   English

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UNDP Fiji
UNDP Fiji, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, Fiji
Papua New Guinea
Fiji
Telephone:   N/A
Web Site:   http://www.undppc.org.fj/pages.cfm/working-with-us/

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UNDP Papua New Guinea is advertising Request for Proposal (RFP) for professional services from interested Research Organizations to undertake a Data Collection and Analysis: Gender Dimensions of Violence Action Research in Post Conflict Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

The research organization will be responsible for undertaking the quantitative research survey in Bougainville, analyze the data and draft a report of the findings.

Application deadline is August 15th @ 2400hrs (Fiji Time).

For further details, kindly visit http://www.undppc.org.fj/pages.cfm/working-with-us/

1.GENERAL BACKGROUND

A) Violence Against Women in the Pacific and Papua New Guinea

Violence against women (VAW) is endemic in the Pacific with some of the highest reported incidences in the world. Recent research nationally representative data from the Solomon Islands and Kiribati has revealed prevalence rates of physical and/or sexual partner violence of 64% and 68% respectively, among ever-partnered women aged 15 – 49.

In Papua New Guinea, distortions of tradition have negatively impacted on the status of women. The unequal status and power relations of women’s conditions in Papua New Guinea are most graphically illustrated by extreme forms of VAW. Papua New Guinea suffers from some of the highest rates of domestic violence per capita in the world. With 67 percent of the women surveyed in the Law Reform Commission’s work in 1980s had been a victim of physical assault by a male partner. In one study by the Institute of Medical Research, 60 percent of the participating men admitted to having pack (gang) raped a woman at some time. For the same study 50 percent of married women interviewed said their husbands had forced them to have sex either by beating them or using threats.

B) Bougainville Crisis

The island of Bougainville was devastated by a civil war between local groups and the Papua New Guinean government. The Bougainville conflict had a tremendous impact on gender relations. There is a widespread perception that VAW increased dramatically during the crisis period, with women experiencing humiliation, physical and psychological violence and were regularly subjected to rape and other forms of sexual assault, forced marriage, forced separation from non-Bougainvillean husbands, by soldiers and Bougainvillean men. Interviews with women from different parts of Bougainville tell that most sexual crimes were under gunpoint and that women were raped and forced to have sex with soldiers from both sides.

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Figure 1 Research component of the Gender Dimensions of Violence
Figure 2 Promoting Evidence based policy
Regional GBV Quantitative Research
Request for Proposal
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