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The first step of the task force was identifying and understanding the data
gaps depending on the type of agency providing data.
Data on VAW turned out to be collected in a very fragmented way. Some
of the Italian Regions have developed local observatories on VAW. All shelters
and specialized services collect data on their activities while only some
hospitals and health services collect data on VAW. Local experiences differ in
quality and have developed in their own way, without a common background
in collecting data. Results are often of best quality but they stay as an isolated
experience. The quality of data collection appeared very much linked to the
individual sensitivity on the topic, the follow up of victims was lacking, there
was no evidence of the most important data and no guarantee for periodicity
and a rigorous methodology. Even in case of systematic collection of data, as
in the case of administrative data from the police system and judicial offices,
there was a low awareness about the importance of data to describe correctly
the phenomenon.
The task force identified the best data suitable to represent the problem,
looking at the best practices and at the possible solutions for each agency,
including NGOs. The technical measures adopted by the task force became
part of the VAW national Action Plan, approved and funded by the
government. In this context, the task force identified the necessity to create an
Informative system on VAW, as a comprehensive tool for storing data (macro
and metadata) and analysis reports, periodically updated, developed and
managed by ISTAT, in coordination with the VAW network.
Following the Istanbul Convention “3Ps structure” (Prevention, Protection,
and Prosecution), the idea of ISTAT was to define a data warehouse built by
connecting administrative sources and field research, as shown in the Table 1.
Table 1 – 3Ps structure of Istanbul Convention and mapping data in Italy

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