1. LECTURE: GENDER ISSUES IN GLOBAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS
NATIONAL TRAINING WORKSHOPS WITH PRODUCERS AND USERS OF GENDER STATISTICS October 2017, Kampala, Uganda
LECTURE: GENDER ISSUES IN GLOBAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS
Opoku Manu Asare
2/24/2019

2. Since Beijing Platform for Action on gender issues and concerns, what efforts and steps have been taken to ensure gender equality, access to resources and opportunities for women and girls at
Global level?
Africa level?
Country-Uganda level?

3. Engendering statistics
A wide range of initiatives and activities have been undertaken at the country, regional and global levels regarding the mainstreaming, development and application of gender statistics and indicators

4. Engendering statistics: Global Level
International frameworks
GA Resolutions
Technical materials
Statistical reports and publications
Global gender statistics programmes

5. Focus of global work on gender stats
Manuals, guidelines
& handbooks
Evaluating and improving definitions, concepts, methods
Tasks Forces/Expert Groups
Intl. organizations
Gender Units in CSOs
Training workshops
& study visits
Improving skills in data production, analysis and dissemination
Reports & publications
on women and men
Assisting in data compilation, analysis and dissemination

6. International Frameworks
Beijing Platform for Action
Strategic objective H.3.
“Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for planning and evaluation”
Fourth World Conference on Women
(Beijing, September 1995)

7. Selected Technical Materials for Engendering Statistics (cont’d)
UNSD, Handbook for Producing National Statistical Reports on Women and Men, 1997;
UNSD, Women's Indicators and Statistics Database (Wistat), Version 4, on CD-ROM, 2000;
UNSD, Indicators for Monitoring MDGs - Definition, Rationale, Concepts and Sources, 2003;
United Nations, Guide to Producing Statistics on Time Use: Measuring Paid and Unpaid Work, 2005;F
Food and Agriculture Organization, "Gender sensitive indicators: A key tool for gender mainstreaming," 2001;
International Labour Organization (ILO), Qualitative and Quantitative Indicators for the Monitoring and Evaluation of the ILO Gender Mainstreaming Strategy.

8. Global Gender Statistics Programmes
UNSD Global Gender Statistics Programme
World Bank Group Gender Action Plan
ILO Gender Promotion Programme
FAO Gender and Development Plan of Action ( )
WHO program on Women, Health and Development
Others
Objectives:
Effective use of networking
Building strong and supportive partnership
Establishment of collaborative arrangements at the national level
Includes 3 components
Inter-agency and expert group to advance gender statistics at global level
Web Portal as technical information resource and channel for networking
Development of training courses for adoption and adaptation at all levels 8 8 8

9. Engendering Statistics
The Regional Level

10. Engendering statistics: Regional Level (Africa)
Programme development
Projects
Workshops and EGMs
Manuals and Handbooks
Gender-based statistical reports and publications
Gender Virtual Library

11. Programme Development
Since 1997, cooperation with a number of UN agencies has been implementing a a Gender Statistics Programme (GSP) for African countries to their capabilities in the production, use and dissemination of gender statistics to lead to more effective policies promoting change for the benefit of women and the advancement of society as a whole
GSP activities have commenced on both the regional and national levels in many African countries
ESCAP: two Regional Workshop on Women and Men in the ESCAP Region
ECA: two workshops in Southern and Eastern African countries 11

12. Regional Workshops on Gender Statistics
United Nations Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics 4 – 7 December 2012 Kampala, Uganda
African Group on Gender Statistics (AGGES) Cape Town, South Africa 18 – 23 January 2012
Gender and Tax in Africa Workshop, Accra, 9-11 November 2016 (International Centre for Tax Development
Regional Training Workshop to Improve Use of Existing Data for Monitoring Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Africa September 2011, Kampala, Uganda
National training workshops with producers and users of gender statistics. 2-4 October 2017, Uganda
Many, many 12

13. Proposed Work on Gender Statistics
Establishment of a Task Force on Gender Statistics to guide the development of gender statistics Africa
Review of SDS reports from a Gender perspectives (publication)
Development of a manual on metadata for gender statistics framework
Training on manual & other capacity building activities
Development of a gender database populated with regional data

14. Engendering Statistics
The National Level

15. Engendering statistics: National Level
National workshops and reports
National publications on women and men
National gender statistics programmes
Mainstreaming gender in NSDS
Gender Focal Points

16. National Workshops & Country Reports
Under the umbrella of the Government of Uganda, UN, etc list all efforts towards the attainment of gender SDG 5 in Uganda, such as:
National reports on gender issues
national strategies for improving gender statistics
Work plans
Development of National Gender Statistics Programmes
National workshops bringing together users and producers to statistics to discuss national gender issues and priorities and data requirements
Census and surveys. Reports of these projects included gender statistics: national work plans, overviews of national workshops and challenges in the preparation of national statistical reports 16

17. Engendering statistics: “Development of National Gender Statistics Programme in Uganda”
Led by UBOS? MGLSD?
Supported by UNECA?, UNDP?
Implemented in coordination with Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD)
Undertaken in collaboration with UNDP and other UN agencies
Includes a number of capacity-building activities and statistical outputs

18. Exercise
List all the Engendering statistics initiatives taken in Uganda since 2010
Discuss achievements
Discuss challenges
Propose a way forward on engendering statistical initiatives in Uganda

19. Thank You