1. Gender Statistics Unit
Role of UN Women in Production and Use of Gender Statistics in Uganda: Status and Challenges
Sadananda Mitra, PhD
Gender Statistics Unit
UN Women Uganda
Thursday, 28th September, 2017

2. Outline Background The Global Framework : FPI on Gender Statistics
The National Framework : FPI on Gender Statistics
Current Status in Production of gender statistics
Use of Gender Statistics
Issues and Challenges
Way Forward 2 2

3. The Global Framework : FPI on Gender Statistics
Making Every Women and Girls Count (MEWGC) 3 3

4. Progress and remaining challenges in the production of gender statistics
Lot of progress on gender statistics but SDGs include many existing challenges for gender statistics
80% of indicators in SDG5 (11 out of 14) do not have accepted international standards for measurement and/or data collection by most countries is irregular
Across SDGs, we have 21 per cent of the data needed to monitor gender equality in SDGs
Important areas are neglected in SDGs due to lack of standards and measures (e.g. gender dimensions of poverty, gender and the environment, etc.)
Measurement of gender and intersecting inequalities needs to be prioritized – huge methodological and data requirements

5. What actions are required to improve the production and use of gender statistics?
Actions to address three inter-related challenges:
Weak policy space and legal and financial environment to produce gender statistics at national level
Technical challenges within National Statistical Systems that limit the sustainable production of gender statistics
Lack of access to data and limited capacity on the part of policymakers and other users to analyse data to inform policies

6. Enabling policy environment
Making Every Woman and Girl Count
Enabling policy environment
Supportive and well-coordinated policy environment in place to ensure gender-responsive localization and effective monitoring of SDGs
Technical and financial support to:
Conduct an assessment of gender statistics and identify gender data gaps
Mainstream gender in national strategies for producing statistics
Develop national plans to localize gender-related SDGs targets and indicators

7. Making Every Woman and Girl Count
Increasing data production:
Quality, comparable and regular gender statistics are produced to address national data gaps and meet policy and reporting commitments under the SDGs
Capacity of the national statistical system strengthened to:
Compile Tier I indicators
Collect Tier II indicators
Methodological work for Tier III indicators

8. Making Every Woman and Girl Count
Improving data availability and use:
Gender statistics are accessible to all users and can be analysed to inform research, advocacy, policies and programmes, and promote accountability
Support increased gender data dissemination
Promote institutionalization of user-producer dialogues to increase accessibility, quality and demand for gender statistics
Strengthen capacity of civil society, government and other actors to analyse and use gender statistics to inform decision-making

9. Implementation: an integrated approach (2016-2021)
Implementation of MEWGC at the national, regional and global levels

10. Implementation: an integrated approach (2016-2021)
12 pathfinder countries where program will be implemented
2017 (Tier I) - Bangladesh, Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, Uganda ( 5 )
2018 (Tier II)- Tanzania, Albania, Cameroon, Colombia, Jordan, Nepal and Sierra Leone ( 7)
Regional projects to respond to increasing demands for UN Women’s support on gender statistics
Global project and regular SDGs monitoring
Global Centre of Excellence (w. INEGI and Gov of Mexico)
Integrating gender in national statistics strategies (w. PARIS21)
Joint program on violence against women w. WHO

11. The National Framework : Gender Statistics11 11

12. Background Uganda is committed to achieve Gender Equality
Signatory of international agreements and have also national policies
Require to track gender related indicators for evidence based policy /programs
Initiative taken to adopt gender related national indicators on Gender Equality

13. Background
UN Women has been supporting NSS to improve the quality production and availability of gender related data in Uganda Since The stakeholders are UBOS, MDAs 13 13

14. The Framework: Production and Use of Gender Statistics
Common Issues
Weak policy space and legal and financial environment to produce gender statistics at national level
Technical challenges within National Statistical Systems that limit the sustainable production of gender statistics (Tier I)
Lack of access to data and limited capacity on the part of policymakers and other users to analyse data to inform policies and international agreements (CEDAW, SDGs) 14 14

15. The Framework: Production and Use of Gender Statistics
In order to have better Production and Use of Gender Statistics for Evidence-Based Localization of the SDGs, UN Women has been implementing five years program aligning to Flagship Initiative Program (FPI) on Gender Statistics
Program Title “Supporting the monitoring and implementation of the SDGs through Better Production and Use of Gender Statistics” ( )
Objective : to improve enabling environment of gender statistics production through improved coordination, capacity building in the National Statistical System, increased production of quality gender statistics and enhanced accessibility of gender statistics by the users. 15 15

16. On going 5 yrs Project on Gender Statistics (2016- 2020)
3 Outcomes, 9 outputs
Outcome I: A supportive and well-coordinated policy environment is in place to ensure gender responsive localisation and effective monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Outcome II: Quality, comparable and regular gender statistics are available to address national data gaps and meet policy and reporting commitments under the SDGs, CEDAW and the Beijing Platform for Action
Outcome 3: Gender statistics are accessible to all users (including governments, civil society, academia and the private sector) and can be analysed to inform research, advocacy, policies and programmes and promote accountability

17. (Production and Availability)
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Outcome I and II
Outcome I, II and III
Outcome II and III
(Production and Availability)

18. Status of Gender Statistics in Uganda
Outcome I: Making Enabling Environment
Activities:
GEWE Framework: Adopted a National Priority List of Gender Statistics (2016), aligning to the SDGs, NDPII
(developed metadata, set baseline and target)
Conducted an assessment to look at the legal framework
Reviewed and updated the National Gender Statistics Strategy and Operational Plan of UBOS aligning with the SDG agenda
Reviewed the Statistics Strategy for education sector by mentioning performance indicators 18 18

19. Status of Gender Statistics in Uganda
Outcome I: Making Enabling Environment
Activities:
Development of advocacy and dissemination strategy for gender statistics
Reviewed the National Gender Policy 2017 to ensure the inclusion of guidelines for the generation and monitoring of gender indicators
Revision of PNSDII and extension for another 2 years
A framework of National Standard indicators which includes NPGEIs also. 19 19

20. Status of Gender Statistics in Uganda
Outcome II: Production of Gender Statistics (Tier I, II)
Activities:
Reprocess existing data as per NPGEIs to ensure the production of Tier I indicators with relevant disaggregation
Time Use Survey 2017 (UCW)
Governance Survey 2017
Baseline survey on the perception on Women’s rights 2017 (VAW, WEE, WPPL)
Women in Local Government: A baseline data (LCIII-V) 20 20

21. Outcome III: Availability and Use of Gender Statistics
Updated an on-line data-sharing platform such as Uganda Info (underway)
Disseminate SDG data through publications (Gender Monograph from UPHC 2014)
User-Producer dialogue (Gender Statistics Conference 2017)
Research papers relating the the SDGs 21 21

22. Use of Gender Statistics in Uganda
Research papers relating the the SDGs
To report the status of SDGs 2017 (brief) in Uganda
8th CEDAW report which is about to submit
Periodic meeting with OPM to prepare the localization report on SDGs 22 22

23. Plan for Use of Gender Statistics
Upcoming Plan for use of Gender Statistics
In the form of reports, Briefs, reports
Analytical reports on satellite account from Time Use data
Thematic gender profiles in key sectors
Updating the tools of sectors aligning to NPGEIs,
UN data forum initiatives 23 23

24. Issues and Challenges
The processes undertaken to ensure Government buy-in, ownership and commitment.
Gaps in some areas in gender statistics (VAW)
Definitions are not standardized with proper
classification 24 24

25. Way Forward
Coordination among the national machinery and International community 25 25

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