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Global Gender Statistics Programme

The Global Gender Statistics Programme aims to improve the capacity of countries to collect, disseminate, and use reliable gender statistics to assess the relative situation of women and men. It focuses on international coordination, promoting methodological developments, capacity-building, and improving data management and dissemination. The programme includes activities such as global forums, integrating a gender perspective into statistics, producing statistics on violence against women, and developing a minimum set of gender indicators.

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Global Gender Statistics Programme

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  1. Global Gender Statistics Programme Haoyi Chen Social and Housing Statistics Section United Nations Statistics Division

  2. Outline • Global Gender Statistics Programme • Overview • Main areas of work • EDGE project

  3. Global Gender Statistics Programme Mandated by the UN Statistical Commission Coordinated by the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics IAEG-GS Goal: To enhance the capacity of countries to collect, disseminate and use reliable statistics and indicators to assess the relative situation of women and men in gender-sensitive, policy-relevant areas Implemented by the UN Statistics Division/key partners

  4. Programme areas and objectives • International Coordination • Objective: Improve global coherence • Methods • Objective: Promote methodological developments • Capacity-Building • Objective: Build technical capacity • Data Management & Dissemination • Objective: Improve access to data and materials

  5. 1. International Coordination • Improving coordination and synergies among existing initiatives on gender statistics Global Forums IAEG-GS 1st Rome, Dec 2007 2nd Accra, Jan 2009 -Since 2007 -International, regional and national agencies -Annual meetings, 8th meeting in 2014 -UNSD secretariat 4th Dead Sea, Mar 2012 3rd Manila, Oct 2010 5th Aguascalientes, Nov 2014

  6. 2. Methods/ 3. Capacity-Building • Promoting methodological development and strengthening capacity including in emerging areas of gender concern • Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics • New Manual (available online on UNSD Wikiplatform) • Violence against Women • UN Guidelines for the Production of Statistics on Violence Against Women, 2013 • Time Use • International Classification of Activities for Time Use Statistics-ICATUS

  7. 4. Data Management & Dissemination • Data/metadata platform • Minimum Set of Gender Indicators • Agreed by IAEG-GS in 2011 and by UN Stat Commission in 2013 • Data available online • Continuation of the World’s Women series • - Analysis of trends in key areas, review of data availability • - March 2015: soft launch of the World’s Women 2015

  8. Minimum Set of Gender Indicators @ unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/data United Nations Statistics Division

  9. Minimum Set of Gender Indicators • Internationally-agreed indicators to monitor gender equality and women’s empowerment (IAEG-GS 2011 and UN Statistical Commission 2013) • Gender indicators (52) • Gender indicators related to national norms (11) • Five domains • Economic structures, participation in productive activities and access to resources • Education • Health and related services • Human rights of women and the girl child • Public life and decision-making

  10. Organization of indicators in Tiers International data compilation  Promoting capacity building activities  Methodologicaldevelopments – e.g., EDGE project

  11. Recent activities EDGE project – Evidence and Data for Gender Equality

  12. EDGE Project A 3-year initiative (UNSD and UN Women) Overall objective: Improving the integration of gender issues into the regular production of official statistics for better evidence-based policies Specific objectives: Compiling at the international level selected indicators: Having comparable gender indicators on health, education and employment Undertake methodological work on “emerging issues”: Developing methods/guidelines to collect entrepreneurship and assets ownership data, and piloting them in selected countries

  13. EDGE Results Results of pilot testing in selected countries 1 International platform for compiling and disseminating data and metadata on health, education and employment; Health Education Employment 2 Methodological report on standards for collection of comparable gender indicators related to entrepreneurship and asset ownership; 3

  14. Visit us at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/default.html

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