Transcript World Bank Institute United Nations Sub-regional workshop on sharing of national experiences on the challenges and lessons learned in engendering the statistical systems SUMMARY Skopje, 15-17

World Bank Institute
United Nations
Sub-regional workshop on sharing of national
experiences on the challenges and lessons learned
in engendering the statistical systems
SUMMARY
Skopje, 15-17 February 2010
Expectations
• Learn more about
– gender statistics
– international experience in data collection (time-use surveys, VAW)
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Knowledge sharing and exchange of experience
Meet old friends and get to know new people
Build up the network of future collaboration
Improve publication of statistics, such as ‘men and women’
Learn how to use data to develop and monitor policies
Harmonisation of gender indicators and gender
mainstreaming
• How to make it happen
Summary of the day 1
Arguments for Gender Statistics:
 To raise awareness and sensitize the public and policy makers
 To develop and monitor policies
 To provide the information on the situation of women and men
 To improve other fields of statistics
 To fulfill the international commitment
Slogan:
Women and men – are you equal? Look at statistics!
Time-use surveys:
PRO: To get data on contribution of women and men to economy
To advance gender equality
EU and other international requirements
CONTRA: Lack of technical and human resources, big burden to statistical office,
census a priority
HOW TO GET IT DONE?
Ask donors to fund, build alliances with NGOs and government, do a light version
or on a smaller scale (e.g. in a specific region)
Summary of the day 2: VAW
Sources of data on VAW:
• Records from police, courts, hospitals, etc. => know what your
data tell you!
• Population based surveys
• Ensure buy in of stake-holders, build partnerships
• Survey design - defining the study population, timeframe, types of
violence; Have the purpose in mind - to create awareness? Address
specific issues (e.g. crime prevention, health)? From where is the
demand coming?
• Safety and ethics; special training and emotional support for
interviewers
• Do not reinvent the wheel! Get technical advice, tools, manuals,
support from those who have the experience
• Women are willing to share experiences with trained
and empathetic interviewers
• Core set of indicators to be approved in February 2011
• Survey module prepared and to be tested in 2010-11
Summary of the day 3
Lessons learned from workshops:
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Identify national/regional needs
Capacity building crucial, training of trainers
• Invite users, decision makers and media - make them your ally
• If sex-disaggregated data are available,
publish it!
• Improve gender literacy! E.g. by educating public
administration and school of statistics
Action plans:
• Developing gender statistics in specific areas: VAW, GPG, time-use
statisitcs, health, education, taxes, ownership of property, gender
budgeting
• Continue engendering all areas of statistics
• Training of data providers
• System/set of (priority) gender indicators
Time-use surveys
PRO :
• No data on contribution of women and men to economy
• No way to get these data otherwise
• To combat gender stereotypes
• Will give an impetus for advancing gender equality
• Have to comply with EU and other int. requirements (ILO convention)
CONTRA:
• Lack of technical and human resources
• Big burden to statistical office, TUS not in annual statistical programme
• Census a priority, postpone after population and agricultural census
• There are other ways to collect the data
HOW TO GET IT DONE?
• Ask donors to fund
• Propose a joint project developed by NSO, NGOs and supported by Parliament
• To do a pilot in a region to learn from experience
• Add a module to another survey?
Slogans
• Women and men – are you equal? Look at statistics!
• Gender statistics makes us all visible
• Why are so many women decision makers?
• Equal mainstreaming with gender statistics for your
future!
• This is a picture – is it nice?
• Gender statistics – much more than numbers
• Do you think you are equal? Measure, analyse, improve!
Gender data – where we are
• Increasing gender data = decreasing disparity
• Together we make more
• Equal world through gender statistics
Safety and ethics
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Professional introduction to explain the survey
Name of the survey
Privacy, one-to-one interaction
Anonymity & confidentiality
Right to refule answer
Female to female, male to male
Different samples for women and men
Offering support during the interview, info about support
network
• Careful selection of interviewers, emphatetic?
• Double questionnaires/leaflets
• Detailed scripted text in questionnaire