Projects and research methods and tools to study violence against women: the experience of a summer school in Tanzania

This article presents the experience of a one-week Summer School, held in Tanzania at the Eastern Africa Statistical Training Centre (Eastc) of Dar-Es-Salaam in 2018, focusing on statistics for studying violence against women. Moving from some evidences concerning the phenomenon in this Country, the article describes the main steps followed to manage the activities, to define the main contents of the course, as well as the methodology adopted, the communication strategy used, the correlate benefits driven into the students’ training programme, and any further contact acquired for engaging civil society representatives in future initiatives. In this regard, a public talk on Gender Equality: the contribute of official statistics to contrast violence against women was hosted by the Italian Embassy in Dar-Es-Salaam inviting numerous thematic experts from international organizations and agencies. The Summer School has offered 30 hours classes, and 15 extra hours for student assistance; 46 student registrations were recorded, and 35 students on average were attending classes daily. Participants came from both academic and public institutions, and from associations, organizations, and private companies, representatives of the civil society. A group of participants came from the National Institute of Statistics of Botswana. In the article some evidences about the long term impact of the project are presented.