Global Data Count Results - Alberta Council of Women's Shelters

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WHO IS THE GLOBAL NETWORK OF SHELTERS?The Global Network of Women’s Shelters is made up of 20 shelter organizations from 17 countries.The founding member organizations come from the following regions:ArmeniaAustraliaCanadaDenmarkEnglandEuropeIcelandIsraelItalyMexicoNepalNetherlandsPakistanIts international membership is bound together by the following goals:RwandaSwedenThe AmericasUnited StatesVietnam1. To be a strong and active global network with a recognized international voice2. To ensure global awareness of violence against women and their children3. To support and strengthen the women’s shelter movement4. To promote effective policies and their implementation in order to prevent violence and protectand empower women and their children5. To promote social change that ends violence and oppression against women and their childrenHOW WAS THE GLOBAL COUNT CONDUCTED?How it StartedIn September 2008, shelters from around the world came together for the first ever world conference ofshelter workers in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This landmark event was organized by the AlbertaCouncil of Women’s Shelters. A number of action items were identified at the conference – one ofwhich being the need to conduct a global data count. The first Global Data Count was conducted on oneday during the fourth quarter of 2009. These outcomes represented the Global Network of Women’sShelters first attempt at generating a tool to better link shelters and generate appreciation of their vitalplace in the world. In February 2010, the results were presented to the Commission on the Status ofWomen in New York. In 2012, the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) organized theSecond World Conference of Women’s Shelters in Washington, DC and our contact list for the datacount grew even larger.Data Count 2012Members of the Global Data Count Committee garnered feedback from participants in the 2011 datacount and solicited questions for the 2012 data count. An information package was developed anddisseminated to the Global Network members, past participants of the 1st World Conference ofWomen’s Shelters and those who attended the 2nd World Conference.Global Data Count 2012 19
The questions were translated into Spanish and placed online. In some cases, Networks incorporatedthe questions into their own national or regional counts; in other cases, shelters entered their datathrough the use of an on line survey. The results were collated and the report produced by the AlbertaCouncil of Women’s Shelters. The draft report was circulated to all participants for comment and reviewprior to its finalization.GNWSExecutive Committee:Co‐Chair: Bandana Rana, Saathi, NepalCommunication‐Awareness Committee Chair: Maria Stetter, Danner, DenmarkGovernance‐Structure Committee Chair: Pat Vargas, Safe Place, CanadaPolicy Committee Chair: Margarita Guille, InterAmerican Network of Women's Shelters, MexicoIn Alberta, CanadaThe number of women and children who were helped and who could not be accommodated due to lackof resources increased significantly from 2011 in Alberta.Our province also saw a marked increase in the number of women in shelter on Data Count Day whoreported that they had been threatened by a gun (62% increase).For further details on the Alberta‐specific Data Count figures, visit our website at:http://www.acws.ca/fact‐sheets‐statisticsThe Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters is proud to administer the Global Data Count and uses theprovincial figures to educate and celebrate the work of member sheltering organizations.Global Data Count 2012 20
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