Gender Sensitization Training as a Process in Serbia

First steps of the gender sensitization training for SORS were made during the Gender workshop in Vienna, February 2004 and UNECE Work Session on Gender Statistics in Geneva, October 2004

Sources of the gender related data in statistics are: 1.Census 2.Regular annual surveys 3.LFS 4.HBS 5.MICS

Government of the Republic of Serbia in 2004 established: Council for gender equality (CGE) Task force for the evaluation of the realisation Millennium development goals (TFERMDG)

Women and Men in Serbia Gender publication was presented in the Government of the Republic of Serbia on 8. March 2005 download

Gender publication consists of eight parts: 1.General Indicators 2.Population 3.Health 4.Education 5.Social Welfare 6.Crime 7.Employment and Earnings 8.Decision Making

During the same year it has been published Women and Men in Belgrade, with the similar concept of publication and design

Serbian National MDG report 2005 The third MDG goal – To promote gender equality and empower women Women and men in Serbia – most frequently mentioned source of the data in the national report

Nationalisation of the MDG in Serbia 2006 Five working groups were established: 1.Gender equality 2.Education 3.Health 4.Environment 5.Poverty reduction and the development In the each group is the representative of the SORS

Council for gender equality (CGE) and Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia are recently conducting survey called Users satisfaction on gender statistics CGE is in the process of the adoption of the National plan of action for gender equality

UNICEF & SORS, Serbia 2005 Multiple Indicators Cluster survey – Preliminary report is in the last phase and the final report will be finished by the end of the 2006

Dev Info 4.0, Serbia 2005 Data base consists of 323 indicators and 91 indicators are presented by gender

Gender statistics has its own past, present and the future, and problems about the sources and continuity of the data. - The new source for the data of the owner / management by gender is the Serbian Agency for Business Registers - Evidence about the violence against the women has to be involved in the future - There is no Time use survey in Serbian statistical system at all

Gender sensitization training should not be the particular act but the follow-up of the process useful for representatives of the statistics, governmental or nongovernmental organizations, mass media and university As a conclusion

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