Master KPIs
Track incident and survey measures, response, justice stages, maternal/newborn outcomes, work, earnings, business, STEM, assets and financial inclusion.
Define the real situation without exposing the person.
Record India → State/UT → District → city/block → village/ward → institution or route only at a safe precision. Add the relevant life stage, setting, time, access need, disability, language, migration or work context, responsible service and current pathway. Survivor identity and sensitive medical or legal information must never be public.
This concept belongs to Data, Measurement & Accountability, but its effects can cross school, health, transport, work, police, justice, digital systems, housing, finance and community life.
Describe the failed outcome—not a stereotype about women.
Track incident and survey measures, response, justice stages, maternal/newborn outcomes, work, earnings, business, STEM, assets and financial inclusion.
Administrative data reflects incidents plus reporting, registration and recording practice.
Composite rankings can hide missing data, different definitions and unequal experiences.
State who is affected, what happened or failed, when and where, the immediate risk, the service response, the coping cost and what remains unknown.
Test environmental, institutional, economic and social causes.
Datasets use incompatible units, periods and boundaries
Compare service records, protected lived experience, place audits, legal duties, staffing, budgets and alternative explanations before verification.
Reporting access varies
Compare service records, protected lived experience, place audits, legal duties, staffing, budgets and alternative explanations before verification.
Dashboards reward favourable counts
Compare service records, protected lived experience, place audits, legal duties, staffing, budgets and alternative explanations before verification.
Impact assessment occurs after design
Compare service records, protected lived experience, place audits, legal duties, staffing, budgets and alternative explanations before verification.
Low reporting may mean lower incidence, or it may mean fear, inaccessible help, weak registration or data gaps. No single indicator should decide the cause.
Combine three evidence layers and keep their limits visible.
| Layer | What it can show | What it cannot prove alone |
|---|---|---|
| Administrative | FIRs, calls, service use, investigation, court and programme records | Total prevalence, unreported harm or lived safety |
| Health and service | Care, injuries, pregnancy, referral, shelter and support pathways | All incidents, causes or justice outcomes |
| Population and qualitative | Experience, barriers, perception, context and hidden harm | Case-specific legal facts or complete real-time counts |
Evidence contract: source · definition · geography · population · period · method · subgroup · uncertainty · verification · privacy.
Data, Measurement & Accountability
Read administrative, health and survey evidence together without hiding uncertainty.
Master KPIs
Track incident and survey measures, response, justice stages, maternal/newborn outcomes, work, earnings, business, STEM, assets and financial inclusion.
The complete pathway must identify prevention, access, trained people, infrastructure, information, emergency or referral route, lawful data use, accountable institution, finance, follow-up, correction and learning.
Protect choice, repair delivery and test the strongest intervention.
Maintain a public indicator dictionary and version history.
Triangulate administrative, health and survey evidence.
Show components, uncertainty and missingness before any score.
Require women-impact questions at project design and review gates.
Protect now, pilot carefully and institutionalise verified improvement.
Define and protect
Verify the local problem, immediate risk, current service, accountable actor, legal or clinical duty and safe support route.
Diagnose and design
Map the complete journey, evidence gaps, causes, affected subgroups, alternatives, safeguards, cost and maintenance.
Bounded pilot
Build one district dashboard with a source registry, three evidence layers, privacy thresholds, public corrections and a project impact-assessment workflow.
Evaluate and transform
Scale only after independent review of benefit, fairness, capability, cost, rights, privacy and unintended harm.
Track safety, health, agency and service quality—not activity alone.
A women-safety intervention must never reduce women’s freedom or dignity.
- RequiredFalse safety rankingsNamed owner, evidence, review date and remedy required.
- RequiredSmall-cell identificationNamed owner, evidence, review date and remedy required.
- RequiredData collection without service improvementNamed owner, evidence, review date and remedy required.
- RequiredSurvivor-led choice and informed consent where applicableNamed owner, evidence, review date and remedy required.
- RequiredDue process, human accountability and appealNamed owner, evidence, review date and remedy required.
- RequiredQualified clinical, forensic, legal and safeguarding expertiseNamed owner, evidence, review date and remedy required.
- RequiredPrivacy-safe publication and controlled sensitive data accessNamed owner, evidence, review date and remedy required.
- RequiredNo coercive family planning, victim blaming or autonomous AI judgmentNamed owner, evidence, review date and remedy required.