Reliable, disaggregated data on violence against women and girls is essential to tracking progress, identifying gaps, and ensuring that policies and programmes are grounded in evidence. Spotlight Initiative invests in strengthening national data systems, results measurement frameworks, and the global evidence base on what works to end violence against women and girls.
In 2025, across the Initiative's programmes, more than 800 service providers, government officials, and civil society staff were trained to collect, manage, analyse, and report administrative data on violence against women and girls and harmful practices. Four countries, Ecuador, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda,[1] made progress toward establishing national, multisectoral administrative data systems. In Ecuador, the Unified Violence Registry was expanded to incorporate four new institutions, strengthening the ability of multiple entities to track, monitor, and coordinate responses to violence against women and girls. In Sierra Leone, the government-led rollout of GBVIMS+ dismantled data silos across police, ministries, and NGOs, enabling a unified dashboard tracking survivor pathways and strengthening cross-ministry referral linkages. In Uganda, over 700 district personnel were trained in GBV data management, strengthening harmonization and reporting quality across 12 districts, including aligning GBV data with refugee protection systems to better capture marginalized populations.
Strong data systems and rigorous measurement frameworks are foundational to the credibility, accountability, and learning that sustained efforts to end violence against women and girls require.
[1] As of 15 May 2026, the aggregated number of countries that made progress on administrative data systems was corrected from three to four. This figure supersedes all previously reported results and should be considered the official result.
Reliable, disaggregated data on violence against women and girls is essential to tracking progress, identifying gaps, and ensuring that policies and programmes are grounded in evidence. Spotlight Initiative invests in strengthening national data systems, results measurement frameworks, and the global evidence base on what works to end violence against women and girls.
In 2025, across the Initiative's programmes, more than 800 service providers, government officials, and civil society staff were trained to collect, manage, analyse, and report administrative data on violence against women and girls and harmful practices. Four countries, Ecuador, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda,[1] made progress toward establishing national, multisectoral administrative data systems. In Ecuador, the Unified Violence Registry was expanded to incorporate four new institutions, strengthening the ability of multiple entities to track, monitor, and coordinate responses to violence against women and girls. In Sierra Leone, the government-led rollout of GBVIMS+ dismantled data silos across police, ministries, and NGOs, enabling a unified dashboard tracking survivor pathways and strengthening cross-ministry referral linkages. In Uganda, over 700 district personnel were trained in GBV data management, strengthening harmonization and reporting quality across 12 districts, including aligning GBV data with refugee protection systems to better capture marginalized populations.