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United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
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Africa Programme on Gender Statistics
(APGS)
UNSD Meeting on Integrating Gender Perspective into
Statistics
4-7 December 2012
Kampala, Uganda
Outlines
• Introduction
• Objectif of the Programme
• Presentation of the Regional Programme
on Gender Statitics
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Introduction
• A lot of Efforts have been made by regional
institutions and other partners in order to
improve gender statistics
• These efforts did not bring about sustainable
improvements of Gender Statistics in Africa
both at Regional and National level.
• Consequently, African countries are facing
many challenges to inform and monitor their
gender policies and Programmes
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Raison of this delay in the advancement of GS
• Theses efforts/activities are undertaken in incoherent
manner; and are project and Ad-hoc based
• Efforts made by different organisations were not in
general coordinated and have often lead to duplication
of efforts and not a best use of scarce resources: Many
agencies and stakeholders undertaking same or similar
activities.
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• To Address these challenges African statistics
stakeholders (Regional institutions, Un Agencies, and
others development partners) has developed and are
implementing a common programme on gender statistics
in the african region called : Africa Programme on
Gender Statistics (APGS)
• This Programme aims at bringing all such efforts under
one umbrella programme.
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Objective of the African Programme
on Gender Statistics
• The main objective of this project is to increase
the availability of timely, up-to-date and
comparable gender statistics at the national,
regional and international levels in Africa
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Progress so far
• The outline of the APGS was presented in the gender
statistics meeting held in Accra in December 2011
• As per the resolution of the meeting the APGS was
presented by the Africa Group on Gender Statistics
to the Statistical Commission (StatCom) for Africa
held in January 2012
• The StatCom endorsed the APGS and requested the
Africa Group on Gender Statistics (AGGES) to
coordinate its implementation
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Progress so far
• The StatCom also requested the AGGES to report
on the progress of implementation of the APGS
in each of its sessions
• A project document on APGS is prepared and
discussed in the gender statistics meeting in Tunis
in 2012
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What is the
Africa Programme on gender statistics?
A regional programme with:
• Multi-pronged strategies
• A Five year plan of action 2012 -2016 developed
by all stakeholders and containing key activities
to be undertaken
Activities are grouped under 4 mains categories :
 Partnership and Regional coordination;
 Capacity Building and Research;
 Data Reporting, storage and dissemination
 Advocacy
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What is the
Africa Programme on gender statistics?
• A programme owned by all partners in the region
– with clear roles and responsibilities
• Clear timelines and costed
• A governance and implementation mechanism
• A monitoring and evaluation framework
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Strategies
• Continue efforts in sensitization and advocacy with national
statistics systems for enhancing political commitment to provide
for the necessary legal, institutional, organizational and financial
support for the development of gender statistics programmes in the
countries;
• Undertake a review of gender statistics programmes in national
statistics office for a development of gender statistics programme
in Africa;
• Promote the development of gender statistics programmes in
countries and help garner unified support of the various partners in
implementing and monitoring of the programme;
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Strategies (contd.)
 Coordinate efforts at regional level in order to have stakeholders of
gender statistics working in synergy to implement a commonly agreed
work programme on gender statistics in Africa;
 Build capacities of member states through training, knowledge sharing
and advisory services;
 Develop Monitoring and Evaluation framework for gender statistics
programme ;
 Create mechanisms for efficient reporting, storage and dissemination of
gender statistics;
 Promote quantitative and methodological research on gender issues.
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Regional partnership and
coordination mechanism
• The process of development of the regional plan has
rallied partners and donors to converge their efforts in
Africa
• The African Group Gender Statistics (AGGES) will
guide and coordinate the development and
implementation of the plan
• AGGES to set up a Task Group to monitor the
implementation of the APGS
• This group will also provide periodical report to the
AGGES
• UNECA will be the Secretariat for both the AGGES
and the Task Group
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Implementation mechanism
StatCom
Guide/coordinate the development
and implementation of the plan
AGGES
Provide guidance to the Task Group
Report to the StatCom
Task Group
Implementing partners
Coordinate and Monitor
Implementation of Plan
Report at pre-decided intervals to
AGGES
Implementing
activities as
per the APGS
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Implementing partners
Regional Institutions
UN Agencies
Other Institutions
UNECA
UN Women
RECs
AfDB
UNDP
Statistical Training
Centres
AUC
UNFPA
Others……
AFRISTAT
UNICEF
WHO
World Bank
OECD
Others……
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Thank You for
Your Kind Attention!
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