page_title: Government Delegation for Gender Violence
section_title: Coordination Units against Violence against Women
hierarchical_section_title: Government Delegation for Gender Violence / Organization chart / National Network of Coordination and Violence on Women Units / Coordination Units against Violence against Women
caption_attribution_description: Español: La alcaldesa de Madrid, Manuela Carmena, y la delegada de Políticas de Género y Diversidad, Celia Mayer, junto a otros miembros de la corporación y trabajadores y trabajadoras municipales, ha guardado a mediodía de hoy, lunes 29 de mayo, un minuto de silencio ante el Palacio de Cibeles para lamentar y condenar los últimos asesinatos machistas, ocurridos este fin de semana, en Ciudad Lineal y Collado Villalba.
context_page_description: The Government Delegation for Gender Violence is a unit of the Secretariat of State for Equality of the Spanish Department of the Presidency responsible for formulating the central government policy against the different forms of violence against women and promoting, coordinating and advising on all the measures carried out in this matter.
  The DGVG is headed by a Delegate of the Government, a civil servant with the rank of director-general appointed by the Monarch with the advice of the Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Equality. The Government Delegation is structured through a central organization integrated by two deputy directorates-general and a decentralized network of gender violence units.
  The Delegation of the Government manages the national registers of gender violence victims; the women register was created in 2003 and the childs register in 2013. Since its creation, it has recorded more than 1,030 women and 34 minors murdered in this kind of violence.
context_section_description: These units are integrated into the Government Delegations of the regions with more-than-one provinces, and are responsible for:
  To direct and coordinate the activities of the Units of Violence on Women existing in the territorial scope of its Autonomous Community.
  To have knowledge of the actions carried out by the Violence Units of its Autonomous Community for the performance of its functions.
  To establish criteria for action in its Autonomous Community so that the Violence Units on Women function in a coordinated and uniform manner. Likewise, they may request reports from the Violence Units regarding actions, meetings, etc., whenever they deem it convenient.
  To coordinate the work of the Violence Units in order to prepare the reports requested by the Government Delegation for Gender Violence.
  To know the reports prepared by the Units of Violence on Women that are sent by them to the Government Delegation for Gender Violence, as well as to other Institutions and Organizations.
  To integrate information on the activities carried out by the Violence against Women Units, in order to prepare the annual report of activities of the corresponding Autonomous Community.
  To convene the necessary coordination meetings with the Violence Units.  In addition, the Coordination Units against Violence against Women perform the functions of the Violence Units in the provinces where this Unit does not exists.
caption: A minute of silence for gender violence fatal victims in Madrid. The banner says: "Enough is enough! No to gender violence", 2007.
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