1/3/2018 FY 14: Gender-based violence among stateless and national populations in Cote d'Ivoire “[Can you open a bank account?] I wished… but without papers I cannot open it [bank account]” ID5, Female, 40yo Reproductive health and children Stateless female participants were more likely to be currently using any kind of contraceptive method compared to national women (30.5% vs. 16.0%). Among those with children, stateless women were less likely to have registered all or at least some of their children as an Ivoirian national. Children of stateless women were also less likely to have access to health insurance (0.6% vs. 13.8%). Appendix Table 3 provides descriptive characteristics of reproductive health among male and female stateless and national populations in Cote d’Ivoire. Partners of stateless male participants were less likely to have ever been pregnant (60.09% vs. 85.4%). Among those with children, stateless men were less likely to have registered all of their children, less likely to have children with access to health insurance (0.0% vs. 13.6%), and less likely to have children unable to continue past secondary school. Qualitative findings illustrate the challenges of registering children for Ivorian nationality and the challenges that children of stateless parents face with regards to access to secondary school and access to health insurance. “If you want to enroll a child in school; the birth certificate of the child is requested… So, without a certificate, you cannot register the child.” FGD, stateless female, 37 yo “I am a foundling…, I never knew my parents… I don’t have my papers… so I could not go to school, I do not know how to read, I cannot write. I have 11 children and none of them can get their papers. Life is difficult for my children. They cannot get good jobs” ID16, stateless female, 45yo “…because, when you will go declare her [2 yo daughter]; they will ask you to do it yourself, they will ask you for your papers, do you know that? You know! So, if you do not have papers yourself, how are you going to do it [for his daughter]? You see?” ID23, stateless male, 32yo “In Cote d’Ivoire, here, already even from 3 years old, children start to go to school; But only when you arrive at 5th grade, for examination purposes, you are always ask for a birth certificate and it is from there that they ask for it or for a supplementary judgment.” FGD, service provider “It is in 5th grade that everyone is asked to bring a birth certificate. If you can bring it, you have no worries; if you are not able to bring it, you are rejected.” FGD, stateless male, 41 yo Lifetime experiences of childhood, intimate partner, and non-partner violence among women Approximately one-third of stateless and national women reported physical abuse during childhood (aged 15 years), 7% reported childhood sexual abuse, and 33% reported any childhood physical or sexual abuse. Appendix Table 4 provides a summary of lifetime experiences of violence among national and stateless women in Cote d’Ivoire. Forty percent reported lifetime physical IPV in adulthood, 27% lifetime sexual IPV, and 40% lifetime physical or sexual IPV, with no difference by nationality status. Among women reporting any IPV victimization, less than one-quarter ever reported IPV victimization to an authority. Sixteen percent of national and stateless women reported physical violence during adulthood by a non-partner. Slightly fewer national than stateless women reported experiencing sexual violence victimization by a non-partner (6.7% vs. 2.2%) and 20% reported any physical or sexual violence by a non-partner with no difference by nationality. In total, approximately 53% of national and stateless women reported any lifetime physical or sexual violence in adulthood or childhood, with no significant difference by nationality status. Figure 3. Violence victimization among surveyed women Qualitative findings: “When you don’t have any papers, you are at risk of being raped than someone who has his papers; because when you are raped, you cannot go to the police, you are afraid of going to the police.” ID16, stateless female, 45yo “[Do you think there is a difference in experiences with regards to GBV among stateless persons compared to those who have documents?]”: “It is the same…, there is no difference. Violence is a common here.” FGD, service provider “It is not necessarily just the undocumented who are [victims of violence]. It is balanced.” FGD, service provider “there is no difference and there is not more violence that is done to those who do not have papers.” FGD, police representative “The gentleman and the woman are together and that the gentleman does not even want to listen to the woman, does not even want to respect the woman rights. The gentleman may be violent towards the woman. It can be physical, it can be moral and then it can be rape. So, for me… the first three years of my marriage I was without having children, there were problems, difficulties at home. I did not even know that today I am was going to be here. He hit me… even morally [psychological violence] there was a lot… There are many others who are in the same situation as me.” ID3, stateless female, 28yo “[GBV] can happen everywhere, on the road to the plantation, … on the way to get water, … even in your house. If the husband is not there, they can do everything possible to come and catch you.” ID3, stateless female, 28yo https://www.state.gov/j/prm/policyissues/prmfund/276832.htm 5/27