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GLOBAL FORUM ON GENDER STATISTICS
26-28 January 2009
Accra, Ghana
UNIFEM’s advocacy strategies for
Gender Statistics
By
Maténin COULIBALY
UNIFEM COTE D’IVOIRE
OUTLINE OF THE PRESENTATION
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Introduction
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Objectives
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UNIFEM advocacy for gender statistics
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Conclusion
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INTRODUCTION
 UNIFEM
 UNIFEM is the women’s fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and
technical assistance to innovative programs and strategies to foster women’s
empowerment and gender equality
 UNIFEM strategic areas
 Strengthening women’s economic security and rights
 Ending violence against women
 Reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls
 Achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well
as war
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INTRODUCTION
 UNIFEM mandates
 Support innovative and experimental activities benefiting women in line with
national and regional priorities
 Serve as a catalyst, with the goal of ensuring the appropriate involvement of
women in mainstream development activities, as often as possible at the preinvestment stage
 Play an innovative and catalytic role in relation to the United Nations’ overall
system of development cooperation
 Importance of gender statistics for UNIFEM and its partners
 Need gender statistics to boost awareness of its concerns
 Need gender statistics to enable tracking all forms of inequality between men
and women
 Need gender statistics for
implementation and monitoring
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economic
and
social
policy
formulation,
INTRODUCTION
 UNIFEM plays a key role in promoting the production of GS
 Advocacy activities to promote the production of statistics for gender-equality
monitoring, planning and programming
 Capacity building, including training and collaborating with other institutions
 Dissemination of research reports on gender and compilation of statistics in
accessible formats
 Several advocacy activities have been initiated in many countries
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OBJECTIVES
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General Objective
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To share UNIFEM experience on advocacy for gender statistics
Specific Objectives
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To present UNIFEM advocacy activities for gender statistics
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To present key successes and challenges
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UNIFEM ADVOCACY ACTIVITIES FOR GENDER STATISTICS
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Advocacy activities for gender data collection
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Collaboration with and sensitization of
mainstreaming gender in data collection tools
producers
for
 Gender mainstreaming in censuses: to make women’s contribution visible
UNIFEM works in partnership with governments, UN agencies and NGO to
engender censuses and raise awareness of women importance in the
economy
 Gender mainstreaming in household surveys: to identify discrimination by
revealing sex-differentiated outcomes in economic and social conditions,
UNIFEM supports the engendering of surveys instruments on poverty
 Specific data collection: for awareness raising and policy advocacy UNIFEM
has supported the collection of specific gender data, e.g., time use survey,
survey on gender based violence
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UNIFEM ADVOCACY ACTIVITIES FOR GENDER STATISTICS
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Advocacy activities for gender data compilation and
dissemination
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Gender data compilation and dissemination are used as an
advocacy strategy for improving gender statistics availability
 Collaboration with statisticians and researchers to publish sex-disaggregated
data (data bases, brochures, etc.) contributes to advocacy within data
producers’ networks for systematic compilation of gender statistics
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Policy advocacy activities to enhance gender statistics
production
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UNIFEM work on engendering MDG reports is used as an
advocacy tool to influence the development and production of
new gender statistics
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UNIFEM ADVOCACY ACTIVITIES FOR GENDER STATISTICS
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Other advocacy activities
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Workshops and technical meeting for
advocacy and Gender Responsive budgeting
gender
statistics
 UNIFEM meets with NGOs, researchers and data producers to report progress
on gender data in order to induce change in gender sensitive data production
 Global and regional advocacy to support the application of GRB
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Capacity building as a tool for gender statistics advocacy
 Collaboration with training institutions to induce changes in favor of introducing
gender in their training curricula
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KEY SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES
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Key successes
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Gender mainstreaming in population censuses
 UNIFEM has supported engendering the censuses in India, Nepal and
Pakistan
 Indian Census 2001:
UNIFEM sought to ensure the collection of data that would accurately
reflect women’s work
Collaborated with Census Commissioner and the Department of Women
and Child Development
Partnership with UNICEF and UNFPA
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KEY SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES
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Gender mainstreaming in household survey
 In Côte d’Ivoire: UNIFEM has supported engendering the 2008 Côte d’Ivoire
household survey on poverty for the elaboration of its final PRSP
UNIFEM collaborated with INS to engender the survey instruments and
produce gender sensitive data relevant to poverty analysis
UNIFEM and INS worked together to integrate gender in the PRSP
drafting, revision and validation
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Specific surveys
 In Tanzania: UNIFEM supported a Time Use Survey
The TUS was conducted as an integral module of the National Labor
Survey to produce relevant labor data for implementation of its PRSP and
MDGs
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KEY SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES
 In Southern Africa: UNIFEM commissioned a study on Unpaid Care Work in
2002
Intended for advocacy on unpaid care work, tools and methodologies for
data collection, production and analysis of unpaid care work
 In Côte d’Ivoire: UNIFEM, in partnership with UNFPA and UNDP, supported a
survey on gender based violence
Survey undertaken to produce statistics on GBV
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Advocacy to support Gender Responsive Budgeting
 In 2001, UNIFEM organized an international conference on GRB
 At local level, UNIFEM supported initiatives in India, Morocco, Uganda and the
Philippines
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KEY SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES
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Capacity building as an advocacy tool for gender statistics
 In Côte d’Ivoire: UNIFEM collaborates with ENSEA to introduce gender
courses in the training curricula of its students
 In Mexico, Dominican Republic and Guatemala: UNIFEM has carried out
capacity building workshops on gender indicators for the NSO
 In Venezuela and Ecuador: UNIFEM organized workshops in partnership with
FAO, UNFPA, NSOs and National Women’s Machineries on the need to
mainstream gender in statistics
 In Colombia: UNIFEM, in partnership with DANE (NSO) organized a training
course on gender and poverty in Colombia in order to improve data collection
instruments
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KEY SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES
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Challenges
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Engendering national statistical systems to meet user needs on
gender mainstreaming
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Prioritizing and developing new sources of data and revising
existing sources to identify gaps
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Engendering the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and
the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP)
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Finding effective ways of sharing and upscaling experiences to
other countries
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Using gender statistics to advocate for gender sensitive macroeconomic policies and other development programs
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CONCLUSION
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Gender statistics enable to track all forms of inequality
between men and women
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Need gender statistics for economic and
formulation, implementation and monitoring
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Advocacy for gender statistics helps in making gender visible in
statistics
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UNIFEM has conducted many advocacy activities aimed at
promoting the production of gender statistics
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Still, many challenges remain
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policy