In Mexico City, 46 percent of women (more than 1.7 million women aged above 15 years) have experienced some form of gender-based violence (GVB) in a year, according to an official survey that reports on the situation of violence against women in Mexico generated by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). Additionally, even though femicides have decreased by 26 percent since 2020 in the City, that extreme manifestation of violence against women remains an urgent problem to be addressed and eradicated by innovative and efficient policies.

The Violence Against Women Information System (RIVM, for its Spanish acronym) is a web application created in 2021 to harmonize data collection from administrative registries on GBV by public agencies that provide protection services for women in Mexico City in order to create a single file for victims that traces their violence attention background and to develop a trigger warning system to prevent femicides.

The RIVM provides an easy-to-use platform to register, store, and analyze data from five different Mexico City Government agencies (Secretariat of Citizen Security, Attorney General of Justice, Secretariat of Women, Secretariat of Health, C4, and Digital Agency for Public Innovation). These agencies are responsible for 1) responding to emergency calls to 911; 2) first contact police response to GBV reports; 3) investigating crimes related to GBV, 4) providing psychological, legal, and social services to victims; 5) providing medical services; 6) follow-up calls to assess and monitor femicide risk of each case.

The objective of creating a single file for victims is to avoid revolving doors and revictimization. Adding all the services a victim receives in a single file allows us –as public servers– to get a better understanding of the context and background of each victim. An effective protection of victims, the prevention of femicides, and the restitution of the right to a life without violence to survivors is expected.

https://rivcm.semujeres.cdmx.gob.mx/#

• Mexico

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RIVM promotes WSIS goals by: Leveraging ICT tools and digital platforms to enhance data management, information sharing, and coordination among government agencies and stakeholders in combating gender-based violence and protecting women's rights. Strengthening digital governance frameworks, data privacy protections, and cybersecurity measures to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and accessibility of sensitive information and victim records within the RIVM system.