1. ITU / Geneva Gender Champions Measuring ITU’s commitment towards the GENDER PARITY PLEDGE
2nd meeting of the Composition of Delegations and Panels Impact Group September 13, 2016

2. Overall framework: Gender is a key element of the Connect 2020 Agenda and the SDGs
Goal 2 Inclusiveness – Bridge the digital divide and provide broadband for all
Connect 2020 Agenda
Goals and Targets
Target 2.5.A: Gender equality among Internet users should be reached by 2020
Link to Target 5.b: Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women.
GOAL 5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

3. ITU Commitment 1
Adopt positive measures to improve gender balance among ITU staff.
Amend ITU recruitment procedures to ensure that, if the number of applications so allows, at every screening level a minimum target of 33 per cent of all candidates moving forwards to the next level are women.
10/23
international organizations have a commitment related to the improvement of gender balance and career support in the workplace
* Commitment is drawn from the Annex 2 to Resolution 48

4. What have other international organizations committed to?
“Improve gender balance in senior management (P5 and above)”
“…establish and maintain a ratio of 60/40 male/female for Board Members and Alternate Members. The gender balance shall be deemed to be within the acceptable range if there is no more than 60% of any one gender…”
“By September 2017, the number of WHO female staff in the professional and higher categories is increased by 3% from 42% in 2015 to 45% in 2017, with a focus on increasing the number of women at the P5 level and above.”
“ITC has committed to reach gender parity at the professional category by 2020.”
“Foster gender equality in UNCTAD’s recruitment and promotions – when equal qualification, we recruit the individual of the under-represented gender.” [affirmative action]

5. ITU Commitment 2
Encourage gender balance among delegates attending ITU conferences and meetings.
Track and publish the numbers of female delegates attending ITU conferences and meetings.
Inform the Member States about the tracking, encouraging them to include more female participants in delegations and give recognition to the delegations with the highest level of female representation.
6/23
international organizations seek to promote a gender balance among delegates attending conferences and meetings

6. What have other international organizations committed to?
“Monitor and annually report gender disaggregated statistics from UNITAR training activities and achieve equal participation of men and women in non-peacemaking training activities”
“All panels in ITC-sponsored events to include women”
“GCSP The GCSP will increase the number of women speakers in our events, and expand our network of women experts”
“…ensure that there is always a man and a woman panelist in every debate organized by the IPU and organize “Parity Debates” during IPU Assemblies, where there is gender parity on the panel and gender balance among participants”

7. Overview
Commitment 1
Adopt positive measures to improve gender balance among ITU staff
✔ Current measurement:
Operational Plan of GS: Outcome indicator for Enabler 1 –currently reported at the ITU Annual Progress Report
Encourage gender balance among participants in ITU events *
Commitment 2
 New measurement:
A process to track data disaggregated by gender in all ITU governing bodies, events and meetings is under development
* Including putting more women at ITU negotiation table

8. How to measure progress? The ITU Gender Dashboard
A multidimensional tool showing current status and progress
Measurement
Status
1. Women in ITU meetings and events 
2. Women in ITU governing bodies and internal decision process
Work in progress
3. Women in Internet (connectivity)
4. Women in the ICT sector
ICT related Ministries, Regulators, National Authorities
Industry, Academia

9. Tracking Commitment 2 (participation by gender): Implementation plan
Action
Deliverable
Tool
Status
Comment
Inputs / Support
Timeline
Design data collection process
Data on: Participation
- ITU-wide registration system (EDRS)
Done
Common registration system for all ITU event includes field on gender
Need to automatize data collection
ISD
Bureaux & Depts. of GS
Q3 2016
Data on: Chairmanship
- EDRS
CRM
Ongoing
Manual process by SPM/GBS
Data retrieving to be automatized
SPM/GBS
Q1 – Q4 2016
Data on: Panels
(to be defined)
- EDRS/ CRM (tbd)
To be done
Event organizers should gather data (and feed into EDRS/CRM -tbd)
Need to introduce and automatize the process
ISD / CRM team
ALL event organizers
Q3 – Q4 2016
Develop gender reporting dashboard
ITU Gender dashboard
- Tableau
- Web site
Infographs
Prototype phase
Tableau prototype being developed
Prototype dashboard designed
ISD / SPM / COMPO
Business analytics (Tableau) expertise
Q2 – Q4 2016

10. ITU event registration system

11. ITU events database to include detailed gender-related data
Examples of new fields
Data available from current system
New fields need to be created (data to be gathered by events’ organizers)
Fits perfectly into CRM

12. ITU Gender Dashboard (prototype)

13. ITU Gender Dashboard: Female representation in Governing Bodies and SAGs

14. ITU Gender Dashboard: Participation at Council 2016

15. ITU Gender Dashboard: Participation at Council 2016

16. ITU Gender Dashboard: Participation in World Conferences

17. ITU Gender Dashboard: Chairs/Vice-Chairs of Study Groups

18. ITU Gender Dashboard: Panelists/speakers at ITU events (example for Telecom)
ITU Telecom World Forum
2014
2015
Sessions 46 40
Speakers/moderators
205
247
Geographic diversity (Countries represented) 52 62
Female speakers/moderators
11%
25%
Sessions without female speakers
21 (45%)
1 (3%)

19. Follow-up / next steps Automatize data collection from various sources
Event organizers to systematically provide the data for panels (by gender)
Gather information on women in the ICT sector
Development of all dashboards (web-based)
Institutionalize the process