Transcript Engendering Statistics: An overview of accomplishments IAEG Meeting on Gender and MDGs Cairo, 10-11 September 2007 Neda Jafar Statistics Division ESCWA [email protected].

Engendering Statistics:
An overview of accomplishments
IAEG Meeting on Gender and MDGs
Cairo, 10-11 September 2007
Neda Jafar
Statistics Division
ESCWA
[email protected]
Contents
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Introduction to Gender Statistics
Engendering Statistics - Global level
Engendering Statistics - Regional level
Engendering Statistical - National level
Future Action
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A wide range of initiatives and activities have
been undertaken at the national, regional
and international level regarding the
development and application of gender
indicators.
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Why gender statistics?
Factual basis for all stages of policy making: planning,
budgeting, implementation, monitoring , reporting and
evaluation:
• Shed light on priority gender issues and gender
gaps
• Set targets and benchmarks
• Track progress
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International frameworks
Beijing Platform for Action
Strategic objective H.3.
“Generate and disseminate genderdisaggregated data and information for planning
and evaluation”
Fourth World Conference on Women
(Beijing, September 1995)
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By whom?
• Fundamentally the responsibility of national
statistical offices and line ministries
• UN can advocate:
– produce and use sex-disaggregated data and
gender-sensitive indicators,
– assist in the development of standards, concepts
and definitions;
– provide capacity building in data collection,
analysis and presentation
Beijing Platform for Action, Strategic objective H.3 .
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And for whom?
Ultimately to meet the information needs of a wide
range of users:
• Policy and decision makers, academia
• Research centers
• Think tanks
• Private sector
• Media
• General public
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Key partners
UNSD, RCs,
UN specialized agencies,
Tasks Forces & Expert Groups
Global
Regional
LAS
CAWTAR
CREDIF
Others
Country
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Focus of work on gender statistics
Manuals, guidelines
& handbooks
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Evaluating and improving
definitions, concepts,
methods
Training workshops
& study visits
• Improving skills in data
production, analysis
and dissemination
Reports & publications
on women and men
• Assisting in data
compilation, analysis
and dissemination
Tasks Forces/Expert Groups
Intl. organizations
Gender Units in CSOs
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Engendering Statistics –
Global Level
• Technical materials
• Statistical reports and publications
• Global gender statistics programmes
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UNSD Technical Materials
• Compiling Social Indicators on the Situation of Women (1984)
• Concepts and Methods for Improving Statistics on the Situation of Women (1984)
• Improving Statistics and Indicators on Women Using Household Surveys (1988)
• Training Users and Producers in Compiling Statistics and Indicators on Women and
Development (1987)
• Handbook for the Development of National Statistical Databases on Women and
Development (1989)
• Methods of Measuring Women's Participation in the Informal Sector (1990)
• Methods of Measuring Women's Economic Activity- Technical Report, (1993)
• Handbook for Producing National Statistical Reports on Women and Men (1997)
• Women's Indicators and Statistics Database (Wistat), version 4 on CD-ROM (2000)
• Indicators for Monitoring the MDGs- Definition, Rational, Concepts and Sources
(2003)
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Other Technical Materials
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Methods of Measuring Women’s Participation and Production in the Informal sector
(1990)
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Methods of Measuring Women’s Economic Activity (1993)
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Engendering Statistics: A Tool for Change (1996)
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Guide to Gender-Sensitive Indicators, by the Canadian International Development
Agency (1997)
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Guide to Producing Statistics on Time Use: Measuring Paid and Unpaid Work (2005)
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Gender-sensitive Statistics for Agriculture
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Gender sensitive Indicators: A Key Tool for Gender Mainstreaming (FAO)
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Qualitative and Quantitative Indicators for the Monitoring and Evaluation of the ILO
Gender Mainstreaming Strategy
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Statistical Reports and Publications
• The World’s Women: Trends and Statistics
• The World’s Women: 2005 Progress in Statistics
• Progress of the World’s Women
• Women’s Empowerment: Measuring the Global Gender Gap
• Situation of Women (1990)
• Statistics and Indicators on Women in Africa (1989)
• Compendium of Statistics and Indicators on the Situation of Women
(1988)
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Global Gender Statistics Programmes
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UNSD Global Gender Statistics Programme
World Bank Group Gender Action Plan
ILO Gender Promotion Programme
FAO Gender and Development Plan of Action (20022007)
• WHO program on Women, Health and Development
• Others
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Engendering Statistics –
Regional Level
• Projects
• Programme development
• Training workshops
• Manuals and Handbooks
• Gender-based statistical reports and
publications
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Gender Statistics Projects
• Development of National Gender Statistics Programmes in
the Arab Countries
• Development of National Gender Statistics in Iraq (UNDGIFT)
• Interregional cooperation to strengthen social inclusion,
gender equality and health promotion in the Millennium
Development Goals
• Toward More Gender-Responsive MDG Monitoring and
Reporting in the Arab Region
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Programme Development
• The United Nations has developed a Gender Statistics
Programme (GSP) for Arab countries .
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It aims to enhance national capabilities in the production,
use and dissemination of gender statistics to lead to more
effective policies promoting change for the benefit of
women and the advancement of society as a whole.
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Since 1997 GSP activities have commenced on both the
regional and national levels in 12 Arab countries: Algeria,
Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman,
Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia, Syria and Yemen.
http://www.escwa.org.lb/gsp/
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Regional Workshops
•First Regional Workshop (Tunis, 9-14 June 1997)
•Second Regional Workshop (Jordan, 8-11 1999)
•Third Regional Workshop (Tunis, 5-7 July 2001)
•Fourth Regional Workshop (Beirut, 17-19 June 2003)
•Workshop on Gender Statistics as a Tool for Policy
Formulation and Analysis (Beirut, 17-19 June 2003)
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Handbooks and Manuals
• Arabic translation of Handbook on How to
Prepare Statistical Publications on Women and
Men
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Gender-based statistical publications and reports
Women and Men in the Arab Region: A
Statistical Portrait
Women and Men: Education
Women and Men: Employment
Where Do Arab Women Stand in the
Development Process?
Arab Women in Public Life and Leadership
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Engendering Statistics –
National Level
• National workshops
• National reports and publications
• Country gender statistics programmes
• Gender Focal Points
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National Workshops
A series of national workshops were held in connection
to the Development of National Gender Statistics
Programmes in the Arab Countries (GSP).
Algeria
First National Workshop
June 1995
Egypt
First National Workshop
December 1997
Second National Workshop
August 1999
Iraq
First National Workshop
December 2006
Jordan
First National Workshop
June 1998
Second National Workshop
July 1999
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National Workshops
Lebanon
First National Workshop
June 1998
Second National Workshop
June 1999
Oman
First National Workshop
February 2000
Palestine
First National Workshop
March 1999
Qatar
First National Workshop
July 2001
Second National Workshop
January 2003
Syria
Tunisia
Yemen
First National Workshop
April 1998
Second National Workshop
August 1999
First National Workshop
July 1998
Second National Workshop
July 1999
First National Workshop
December 1998
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Gender-based country reports
The reports include national work plans, overviews of national
workshops, national strategies for improving gender statistics,
and challenges in the preparation of national statistical.
Algeria
Egypt
Jordan
Lebanon
Oman
Palestine
Qatar
Syria
Tunisia
Yemen
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Gender-based statistical booklets
National Women and Men Series
Algeria: A Statistical Portrait
Egypt: A Statistical Portrait
Jordan: A Statistical Portrait
Lebanon: A Statistical Portrait
Oman: Women and Men
Qatar: National Report on Women and Men
Palestine: A Statistical Portrait
The Syrian Arab Republic: A Statistical Portrait
Tunisia: A Statistical Portrait
Yemen: A Statistical Portrait
Morocco
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Country Gender Focal Points
Country
Organization
Qatar
Department of Statistics, The Planning Council
Jordan
Department of Statistics
Egypt
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
The National Council for Women
Ministry of Planning and Health (MOPH)
Cairo Demographic Center (CDC)
National Council for Childhood and Motherhood
National Population Council
Syria
Population Affairs Bureau
Oman
Ministry of National Economy
Iraq
Human Development Statistics Division , Central Organization for Statistics and
Information Technology, Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation
Palestine
Department of Gender Statistics, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Higher Education
Ministry of Civil Services
Ministry of Labour
Government Organization for Social Insurance
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World Wide Webs
selected
• http://www.awid.org AWID -Association for Women in
Development,
• http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/index.html BRIDGE is a gender
development organization
• http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/equ_opp/news/gen
der_equ_en.htm This European Union’s website falls under the
Employment and Social Affairs of the European Union.
• http://www.fao.org/docrep/X2785e/X2785e00.htm The Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/gender/overview/ilo.htm
The International Labour Organization’s (ILO)
• http://www.kit.nl/cmo/html/body_gender.htm Since the 1980s, the
Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) based in The Nether lands
• http://www.worldbank.org/gender The World Bank Group
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• http://www.genderstats.worldbank.org/menu.asp This website of the
Gender and Development Group (PREM Gender) provides a database of
gender
• http://www.un.org/Depts/eca/divis/acw/index.htm The African Centre for
Women (ACW) is a division within the Economic Commission for Africa.
• http://www.eclac.org/English/research/women/indicators/genderind.htm
The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC).
• http://www.unescap.org/wid/index.htm The UN Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Women in Development site
• http://www.unifem.undp.org/gov_ppp.htm The UN Development Fund
for Women (UNIFEM)
• http://www.un.org/womenwatch/resources/goodpractices This good
practices database in gender mainstreaming and implementing the Beijing
Platform for Action
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• http://www.un.org/womenwatch WomenWatch is the UN internet
gateway on the advancement and empowerment of women.
• http://www.undp.org/gender The UNDP Gender in Development
Programme (GIDP)
• http://www.cawtar.org/ CAWTAR is an Independent Regional Institution
promoting gender equality in the Arab World through Research, Training,
Networking and Advocacy
• http://www.credif.org.tn/ CREDIF center for researches, studies,
documentation and information for women
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Future Action…
• Which countries are missing?
• What are the gaps in issues, data, indicators and analysis?
• What is being done to address these gaps, challenges and
strategies?
• What activities are needed at the international level in
terms of agencies collaboration to support national
initiatives and build capacity of member countries to
sustain the development of gender statistics?
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