Ghana loses 18.9 million dollars due to economic costs of violence against women ▷ Ghana news

– ISSER study reveals Ghana lost $ 18.9 million to violence against women and girls

– The study revealed that expenditure incurred amounted to 10% of their annual per capita expenditure on non-food consumption

A study conducted by the Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana found that in 2016, Ghana had lost $ 18.9 million (73.5 million GHC) in economic costs of violence against women and girls. .

The study found that women survivors who used services and who reported spending spent an average of $ 53 per year, equivalent to 10% of their annual per capita spending on non-food consumption.

At the launch of the research highlighting the high economic and social cost of violence against women in Ghana, Malonin Asibi, director of the Domestic Violence Secretariat of the Ministry of Women's Health, Children and Social Welfare, said that the latter had had harmful consequences for the victims.

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"VAWG undermines the quality of life of families and the well-being of children, with long-term consequences for our social life", she says.

The main findings of the study found that intimate partner violence and violence by family members were the most common forms of violence experienced by women in Ghana.

According to the report, four out of every 10 Ghanaian women interviewed living in a couple live in an IPV, and two women living with natal or marital families were victims of domestic violence in 2016. He indicated that the magnitude of the losses related to violence against women was important.

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With regard to the intergenerational impact, the report estimates that about 300,000 school days are missed by children every year in Ghana because of the violence experienced by their mothers.

He said that this missed schooling has a long-term impact on the future capacity and income of the children of abused women.

He said VAWG could worsen household poverty; stating that many women who experience GFAV incur additional costs due to violence, such as medical care.

With regard to the impact of work and productivity on women, the study indicates that in Ghana, economically, active survivors of domestic violence were absent from work or less productive for 12 days. during the period of the study.

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