Priority Area 5: Implementation and monitoring: Applying an intersectional approach to ensure inclusive policy responses to migrant women’s experiences of DSGBV
Pillar 4 of the National Strategy contains welcome, ambitious commitments to underpin its implementation, including establishment of a new statutory DSGBV agency with the Minister for Justice having lead responsibility for DSGBV and the DSGBV National Strategy (action 4.1.1). There are also pledges that “implementation will be ensured by strong oversight and coordination at central Government level” and overall oversight will be provided by a Cabinet Committee, chaired by An Taoiseach (4.1.2). Table 5 below highlights priority actions to be taken to ensure the that migrant women’s rights and concerns will be at the centre of the implementation of the National Strategy.
Table 5. Implementation of National Strategy commitments to migrant women
| Policy Coordination Commitment (National Strategy Pillar 4) | Priority Actions for inclusive responses to migrant women’s experience of DSGBV |
| 4.1.3 Establish a specialised group … to proof and advise all interventions in terms of intersectionality and inclusivity for socially excluded groups including … migrant women | 5.1 In consultation with organisations supporting migrant women, formulate terms of reference of and establish the “specialist group,” ensuring representation of migrant women in the group established. |
| 4.1.4 Resource the participation of civil society and the specialist and community-based support organisations in support of the ongoing implementation of the National Strategy. | 5.2 Resource and support the formation of a Migrant Women DSGBV Working Group to monitor and advise on implementation of National Strategy commitments to migrant women and feed into Action 4.2.1 (see below). |
| 4.1.5 Establishment and resourcing of … [an Inclusion Committee to ensure compliance with all relevant UN conventions and an Expert Group on new and emerging forms of DSGBV] to support strategy implementation. | 5.3 Ensure inclusion of migrant women and organisations supporting them on the Inclusion Committee and Expert Group and that both bodies work in consultation with the Specialised Group on intersectionality and inclusivity.
5.4 Include early and forced marriage and emerging forms of gender-based exploitation in contexts of trafficking in the work of the Expert Group |
| 4.1.7 Establish a working group comprising relevant Departments and agencies who, along with the Advisory Group [overseeing awareness-raising campaigns], will report to the Minister for Justice … to ensure consistency and coherence in messaging and a planned and targeted rollout of the campaigns. | 5.4 Ensure representation of and consultation with the Specialised Group on intersectionality and inclusivity in the activities of the planned Working Group and Advisory Group. |
| 4.2.1 Devise monitoring and implementation framework for the DSGBV National Strategy for all victims/survivors | 5.5 Include migrant women and organisations supporting them in the process to devise and monitor implementation of the DSGBV National Strategy commitments to migrant women, including regarding FGM |
| 4.3.1 Establish a data standards liaison group with responsibility for identifying the key quantitative and qualitative data gaps…. | 5.6 Include migrant women and organisations supporting them in all aspects of this action; and consider the addition of an immigration status identifier in DSGBV data collection |
| 4.4 Ensure issues of policy intersectionality are highlighted and prioritised….
4.5 Make clear connections and agree targets with other equality and inclusion strategies and related legislation (that focus on socially excluded groups) |
5.7.1 Consider resourcing one or more postdoctoral research fellowships in partnership with relevant HEIs to undertake enabling research to facilitate formulation and agreement of targets across other relevant strategies (4.4) and with respect to equality and inclusion targets in particular (4.5)
5.7.2 Include migrant women and organisations supporting them in identifying critical overlapping areas across strategies and formulating equality and inclusion targets. |
| 4.6 Ensure there is a priority focus on DSGBV services being inclusive, and improve outcomes for socially excluded groups
4.6.1. We will put funding in place to facilitate … the involvement of support services and marginalised groups in the design and implementation of actions … that support … enhanced access for all and … piloting or testing of new models of work/approaches. |
5.8 Support and resource the piloting and development of a coordinated, cohesive and integrated approach to awareness-raising, information dissemination in relevant languages, and facilitation of access to the full range of available specialised DSGBV supports and services to different migrant women, such as international protection applicants, refugees and those who are undocumented, including the resourcing of a single designated coordinating organisation and designated focal points in each participating support organisation.
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| 4.6.2 Targeted community engagement with groups currently underrepresented in services
[An Garda Síochána specific; including improving the confidence victims of DSGBV to report regardless of immigration status; and awareness raising with “hard to reach communities”] |
5.9.1 Engage proactively with migrant women and organisations supporting them as part of AGS’s commitment to work in partnership with NGOs to implement the DSGBV National Strategy and provide a collaborative and effective policing service to all of society.
5.9.2 Ensure that this action is implemented in tandem with action 2.2.4, to resource and build capacity to support, in particular:
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