Enforcement audits
Following laws from reporting and investigation through prosecution, adjudication, sanctions and protection.
Independent Women’s Rights Research Institute · Paris
Evidence on what laws promise.
Research on what institutions deliver.
Institutum Lex Feminae conducts independent enforcement audits, policy research and comparative analysis to measure whether laws and policies deliver measurable outcomes for women.
Research
Independent research & analysis
Our work combines legal analysis, administrative data, comparative research and policy evaluation to identify where protections succeed, where they fail, and what institutions can do differently.
Policy evaluation
Testing whether legislation, programmes and protective mechanisms produce measurable outcomes.
Comparative analysis
Benchmarking legal and institutional performance across jurisdictions with transparent methods.
Data & justice-chain analysis
Identifying attrition, implementation gaps and institutional bottlenecks in fragmented data.
Our Indexes
Four proprietary research frameworks
Distinct lenses for measuring law, institutional performance, risk and prevention.
Lex Feminae Index®
Outcome-based auditing of gender-based violence enforcement, accountability and the distance between law and measurable protection.
Effectum®
Evaluation of policy implementation, institutional capacity and the observable effects of public interventions.
Climatis®
Research on gender, climate vulnerability, public policy and institutional response to unevenly distributed risk.
Praeventum®
Assessment of prevention systems, early intervention and the institutional conditions required to reduce harm.
Commission Research
Rigorous, independent analysis tailored to your research question.
ILF undertakes commissioned research for public institutions, international organisations, foundations, universities and civil-society partners. Projects may include evidence reviews, policy briefs, comparative studies, enforcement audits, programme evaluations and multi-country research.
Discuss a research project01Define
Clarify the decision need and research question.
02Design
Select the evidence, methodology and scope.
03Analyse
Produce independent, transparent findings.
04Deliver
Translate evidence into clear, usable outputs.
About
Research focused on outcomes, not declarations.
Institutum Lex Feminae is a Paris-based independent women’s rights research institute examining the effectiveness and enforcement of laws and policies affecting women.
Our purpose
Measure the distance between legal commitments and measurable outcomes.
Our approach
Independent, evidence-led, comparative and outcome-focused.
Our work
Research, enforcement audits, policy analysis and institutional collaboration.
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