Transcript United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Engendering National Statistical Systems For a Knowledge-Based Policy Formulation UNECE-World Bank 6 - 8 October, 2008 © 2007 The World Bank.

United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe
Engendering
National Statistical Systems
For a Knowledge-Based Policy Formulation
UNECE-World Bank
6 - 8 October, 2008
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Economic Commission for Europe
Why a project on Gender Statistics?
Need to engage
other national
partners and to
collaborate with
them
Need to go beyond
‘statistics by sex’:
Need to focus on
gender issues
Need to improve
and go beyond
‘Women and men’
publications
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Partnerships for a Long-Term Engagement
2003
Start of collaborative
process between WBI,
UNECE and the
regional NSOs.
Mainstreaming of gender
into the production and
dissemination of statistics
in Eastern Europe and
Central Asia.
2006
Joint WBI-UNECE
project on Gender
Sensitization,
2007-2009
2008
National
workshops +
training material
2005
Inter-agency Task
Force on gender
sensitization training
for statisticians
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2007
Start of ToT,
Community of
Practice
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Geographic Coverage
Currently, the project includes the following countries of
Eastern Europe and Central Asia:
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyz Republic
• Moldova
• Russian Federation
• Serbia
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan
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Program Objectives
2. Empower
Improve sensitization
of
users to
the
production,
3.
statisticians
working
in
NSOs
by creating
Improve
sensitization
of
National
Statistical
4.1.Improve
availability
and
quality
of
gender
statistics
use
and update
of and
gender
statisticstraining materials to
a
network
of
peers
developing
Systems
in where
all areas
of work
(especially
in employment,
data
in
areas
gaps
are more
relevant
be
used
in
national
events
violence against women, etc)
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Program Components
The program consists of three main components:
Regional and
National
Capacity Building
Preparation of
Sub-Regional Studies
on the Status of
Men and Women
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Upgrading and
updating of
Gender Statistics
Databases
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Capacity Development Component:
Strategies and Approaches
Participatory
Ownership of the project and active participation of the direct
beneficiaries – NSOs from recipient countries
Adaptive
User friendly modules, customized to individual country
realities and needs
Proactive
Advocacy tools to create awareness at all levels of the NSSs
Results-oriented
Activities are designed to focus on processes, outcomes, and
expected impacts
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Capacity Development Component:
Instruments
Development of
Training Manual
Regional Trainings
of Trainers (ToT)
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National follow-up
Workshops
(by local trainers)
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Databases
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Self-running presentations
Advocacy
Decision-Making
Time
Use Surveys
Gender Based Violence
Labour Statistics
Making It Happen
Coming soon…….
Minorities
Informal Employment
Gender Pay Gap
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Training Modules
• Combine self-running audiovisual
presentations, video interviews with
key opinion leaders, group exercises,
case studies and role plays.
• Focus on learning by doing.
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National workshops: thematic focus
Some of the topics covered are:
 Labour statistics: how to make
them more gender relevant?
 Violence against women:
concepts and statistical tools to
collect data
 Informal employment: definitions
and improved statistical tools
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Other possible topics
Population subgroups (minorities)?
Education?
Gender Pay Gap?
Decision-making?
Gender attitudes?
Training of users?
Time use?
Agriculture?
Health, disability and care?
ICT?
Dissemination, Outreach and Marketing?
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Some lessons learned
Gender statistics and money
Gender statistics, NSOs and others
Gender statistics and creativity
Gender statistics and men
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Next steps
Options:
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Additional national workshops
Expand development tools
Promote data dissemination tools at country level
Promote data analyses tools at country/regional level
Focus on data users
Partner with similar projects globally
Find synergies with the Bank-wide Statistical Capacity
Building program
• ….
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