1. Presented by:
Rezart Xhelo
September 2013

2. Background
 Adoption 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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3. Purpose/Motivation
To 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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4. 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 Courts
 Four pilot Municipalities (Tirana, Durres, Korca and Vlora)
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5. 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;
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Lawyers & law
practitioners
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6. 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:
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7. 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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8. The study as an advocacy tool
Planning & budgeting
Results:
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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9. Challenges
Weak
coordinatio
n of actors
within the
CCR
system
Only few
institutions
adopted to
an extend
budgetary
requiremen
ts
Data
discrepanc
y between
state
institutions
and NGO
service
providers
Challenges
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10. Lessons learned
 Consultation: 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;
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Recommendations