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Launch the Jordanian National Report on Economic Cost of Domestic Violence in Jordan under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Basma Bint Talal

28 November 2023
Venue: Royal Hotel, Amman

Violence against women (VAW), and specifically domestic violence (DV) against women, is a global pandemic and a violation of an individual’s human rights. Violence against women remains one ofthe starkest manifestations ofthe gender discrimination that exists in all of oursocieties. The economic, social and health costs of VAW, are considered by researchers, programme practitioners and advocates to be enormous. While some data is available in some countries, the
understanding of the economic impacts and financial consequences of domestic violence is limited.

During the years of 2021 and 2022Jordan carried out the research to estimate the economic cost
of domestic violence against women and girls in Jordan. This report is among the Government’s efforts to provide evidence based on the wider economic costs of violence against women and girls on women and girls, households, and the economy, as well as the costs of providing services to survivors of such violence in Jordan. Significantly, this is the first report to combine the calculation of the costs incurred at the household level and the cost of services incurred by governmental and non-governmental organizations in the Arab region according to the full operational model, produced by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), for estimating the costs of marital violence in the Arab region.

This report is the product of a collaboration between the Jordanian National Commission for Women (JNCW); the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA); the United Nations Population Fund, Jordan Country Office (UNFPA); the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, Jordan Country Office (UN-Women); the
Centre for Global Women’s Studies at the University of Galway in Ireland; the Jordanian Department of Statistics (DOS), which carried out the survey; and Leading Point Management Advisory Services with the support of the Government of Cyprus.

The Jordan’s national report on the economic cost of domestic violence against women shows that the domestic violence against women in Jordan comes at a considerable financial cost to survivors, communities and the State.

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