Table 2.

Description of the key elements recommended for the prevention and combat against DV, existing in the twenty-two (22) documents analysed

Key elements	Conventions treaties and declarations (total—3 worldwide; 4 African)	Mozambican laws and policies (6)	Mozambican action/strategic plans (9)
Naming style	Violence against women (2)	Violence against women* (1)	Violence against women (2)
	Women (0)	Women (0)	Women (1)
	Gender equality (2)	Gender equality (1)	Gender equality (0)
	Human rights (2)	Human rights (1)	Human rights (0)
	Family (0)	Family (1)	Family (1)
	Non-specific (1)	Non-specific (2)	Non-specific (5)
Beneficiaries	Women (4)	Women (2)	Women (2)
	Family (3)	Family (2)	Family (5)
	Children (0)	Children (1)	Children (0)
	Population in general (0)	Population in general (1)	Population in general (2)
Main strategies	Prevention (7)	Prevention (3)	Prevention (8)
	Assistance (5)	Assistance (2)	Assistance (9)
	DV case notification (1)	DV case notification (1)	DV case notification (6)
	Advocacy (0)	Advocacy (0)	Advocacy (2)
	Capacity building (1)	Capacity building (1)	Capacity building (4)
	Monitoring & evaluation (0)	Monitoring & evaluation (0)	Monitoring & evaluation (1)
	Protection (0)	Protection (4)	Protection (0)
	Offender criminalization (0)	Offender Criminalization (2)	Offender Criminalization (1)
Multisectoral approach	Yes (6)	Yes (6)	Yes (5)
	No (0)	No (0)	No (4)
	Non-specific (1)	Non-specific (0)	Non-specific (0)
DV definition	Human rights (3)	Human rights (1)	Human rights (1)
	Economic (1)	Economic (2)	Economic (1)
	Physical (1)	Physical (3)	Physical (1)
	Psychological (1)	Psychological (3)	Psychological (1)
	Sexual (1)	Sexual (3)	Sexual (1)
	Other (1)	Other (3)	Other (1)
	No definition (3)	No definition (3)	No definition (7)

*Law on domestic violence against women—although it has the term DV in its name, was considered violence against women in order to standardize data collection