Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division Global Gender Statistics Programme Haoyi Chen Social and Housing Statistics Section United Nations Statistics Division

Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division Outline Global Gender Statistics Programme –Overview –Main areas of work EDGE project

Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division Global Gender Statistics Programme Mandated by the UN Statistical Commission Coordinated by the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics IAEG-GS Implemented by the UN Statistics Division/key partners 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

Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division Programme areas and objectives 1.International Coordination  Objective: Improve global coherence 2.Methods  Objective: Promote methodological developments 3.Capacity-Building  Objective: Build technical capacity 4.Data Management & Dissemination  Objective: Improve access to data and materials

Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division Improving coordination and synergies among existing initiatives on gender statistics 1. International Coordination IAEG-GS -Since International, regional and national agencies -Annual meetings, 8 th meeting in UNSD secretariat Global Forums 2 nd Accra, Jan th Dead Sea, Mar rd Manila, Oct st Rome, Dec th Aguascalientes, Nov 2014

Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division 2. Methods/ 3. Capacity-Building Promoting methodological development and strengthening capacity including in emerging areas of gender concern 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 Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics  New Manual (available online on UNSD Wikiplatform)

Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division –Minimum Set of Gender Indicators Agreed by IAEG-GS in 2011 and by UN Stat Commission in 2013 Data available online 4. Data Management & Dissemination Data/metadata platform 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

Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/data Minimum Set of Gender Indicators

Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division 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

Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division Organization of indicators in Tiers Indicators conceptually clear, with an agreed international definition and regularly produced by countries Tier I  International data compilation  Promoting capacity building activities  Methodological developments – e.g., EDGE project Indicators conceptually clear, with an agreed international definition, but not yet regularly produced by countries Tier II Indicators for which international standards need still to be developed and not regularly produced by countries Tier III

Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division Recent activities EDGE project – Evidence and Data for Gender Equality

Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division 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

Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division EDGE Results Results of pilot testing in selected countries Health Education Employment 1 International platform for compiling and disseminating data and metadata on health, education and employment; 2 Methodological report on standards for collection of comparable gender indicators related to entrepreneurship and asset ownership; 3

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