1. Gender Issues in global, regional and national contexts
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National Training Workshops with
Producers and Users of Gender Statistics .
Gender Issues in global, regional and national contexts
Fatouma Sissoko
African Centre for Statistics
Kampala, Uganda, October 2017

2. Outline
Background
Efforts made to improve gender statistics at Global, Regional and National levels Since Beijing Platform for Action
Status gender statistics in Afica

3. Background:
Why gender statistics?

4. Background: the first Women’s Conference
The call for improving the production and use of gender statistics to support development and decision making process, echoed since the first Women’s Conference that:
Recognized the need for statistics as information and advocacy tool on gender inequalities.

5. Background: Beijing Platform for Action (1995)
Identified gender mainstreaming as a global strategy for achieving gender equality
Identified the generation and dissemination of sex-disaggregated and gender related data and information as a strategic objective for evidence based planning and evaluation.
Recognized the need for statistics for advocacy, evidence-based policy making and assessment of progress towards gender equality goals at Nat., Reg. and Internat level; and has then
Called for specific actions related to gender statistics:
Regular review of the official statistical system and its coverage of gender issues, and preparation of plans for needed improvements (para 207(b))
Improvement of data collection in certain areas (para 206);
Production of gender statistics and use in policy and programme planning and implementation (para 206 (b) & para 207 (d))

6. Background: 2030 Agenda- SDGs
The declaration of the 2030 agenda reaffirms commitments to the BPfA and
Call for Increased support for strengthening data collection and capacity building in Member States, to develop national and global baselines where they do not yet exist.
It commits to address gap in data collection so as to better inform the measurement of progress, in particular for those targets below which do not have clear numerical targets .
Furthermore, it sets the principle of disaggregation of relevant SDG indicators according to some characteristics, including sex

7. Background: 2030 Agenda- SDGs
Specific Goal: Goal 5“Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”: 9 targets, addressing multiple concerns (e.g. 5.1; 5.2, 5.3, 5.a, 5.c)
Gender mainstreamed if other goals, and targets: A quarter of Targets explicitly or implicitly addressing gender issues

8. Efforts made Since Beijing Platform for Action
A wide range of initiatives and activities have been undertaken at the country, regional and global levels regarding the mainstreaming gender into statistics:

9. Engendering Statistics
The Global Level

10. Engendering statistics: Global Level
Global Gender Statistics Programme – 2007
Objective : 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
Coordinated by IAEG-Gender Statistics
Implemented by UNSD

11. Engendering statistics: Global Level
Global Gender Statistics Programme – 2007 Covering the following areas:
1 - International Coordination: Improving coordination and synergies among existing initiatives on gender statistics such as the IAEG and the regional forums on gender statistics (6 forum so fare). IAEG: Africa: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, Algeria, Egypt.
2 - Promoting methodological development, including in emerging areas of gender concern (Technical materials such as guidelines and handbooks). EXPLES
Violence against Women
Establishment of the Fiends of the Chair group on Indicators to measure Violence Against Women (FOC-VAW), 2008 by the UN Statistical Commission;
Adoption of minimum set of indicators on VAW, 2009 by UN Statistical Commission;
UN Guidelines for the Production of Statistics on Violence Against Women, 2013
Time Use : International Classification of Activities for Time Use Statistics-ICATUS

12. Engendering statistics: Global Level
Gender Statistics Manual on Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics
Statistical reports and publications
3. Capacity-Building : Strengthening statistical capacity for the production of gender relevant data
Organization of training workshops/study tours/ad-hoc /advisory services
4. Data Management & Dissemination: Improve access to data and materials
Global Gender Statistics platform;
Continuation of the World’s Women series: Analysis of trends in key areas, review of data availability ;
Minimum set of Gender Indicators

13. Engendering statistics: Global Level
Minimum set of Gender Indicators: Internationally-agreed indicators to monitor gender equality and women’s empowerment (IAEG -GS 2011 and UN Statistical
Commission 2013)
Cover 5 domains : (i) Economic structures, participation in productive activities and access to resources (ii) Education (iii) Health and related services (iv) Human rights of women and the girl child (V) Public life and decision-making
52 quantitative indicators
11 qualitative indicators related to national norms
Among the 52 quantitative indicators:
37 Tier 1 indicators
8 Tier 2 indicators
7 Tier 3 indicators
Among the 11 qualitative indicators:
9 Tier 1 indicators
2 Tier 2 indicators

14. Focus of global work on gender stats
Internation.coordination
coordination and synergies among existing initiatives on GS: (IAEG and the regional forums on gender statistics)
Tasks Forces/Expert Groups
Intl. organizations
Member states
Manuals, guidelines
& handbooks
Evaluating and improving definitions, concepts, methods
Training workshops
& study visits
Improving skills in data production, analysis and dissemination
APGS is a regional programme that have: (i) multi-pronged strategies; (ii) a five year plan of action ; (iii is owned by all partners in the region (iv) clear roles and responsibilities (v) Clear timelines and costed (v) A governance and implementation mechanism (vi) A monitoring and evaluation framework
Strategy: (i) Continue efforts in sensitization and advocacy with national statistics systems for enhancing political commitment to provide for the necessary legal, institutional, organization, financial support and development of gender statistics programmes in the countries; (ii) Undertake a review of gender statistics programmes in national statistics office for a development of gender statistics programme in Africa; (iii) Promote the development of gender statistics programmes in countries and help gather unified support of the various partners in implementing and monitoring of the programme; (iv) Coordinate efforts at regional level in order to have stakeholders of gender statistics working in synergy to implement a commonly agreed work programme on gender statistics in Africa; (v)Build capacities of member states through training, knowledge sharing and advisory services; (vi) Develop Monitoring and Evaluation framework for gender statistics programme ; (vii) Create mechanisms for efficient reporting, storage and dissemination of gender statistics; (viii) Promote quantitative and methodological research on gender issues.
Reports & publications
on women and men
Assisting in data compilation, analysis and dissemination

15. Engendering Statistics
The Regional Level

16. Engendering statistics: Regional Level
Date
Milestone
2004
African Gender Development Index – methodology manual published
2008
Regional Workshop on Gender Statistics
Addis Ababa
 2008
Statistics Commission - Africa Working Group on Gender Statistics
High-level Policy Dialogue on Gender Statistics for Socioeconomic Development Kampala
2009
Kampala City group on gender statistics was formed
 2010
Handbook on Engendering of Censuses and Surveys
 2011
National studies on violence against womender Statistical System
Capacity building: Training, advisory services in various areas of GS
Technical and training materials: glossary on GS, compendium on GS, toolkit and online toolkit on gender statistics etcc)
2011
Report on AGDI pilot
African Women’s Rights Observatory established
2012
African Gender Statistics Programme

17. Engendering Statistics
The National Level

18. Engendering statistics: National Level
National gender statistics programmes
Mainstreaming gender in NSDS
Gender Focal Points
Development of training materials
National workshops and reports
National publications on women and men
Gender Budgeting

19. Engendering statistics: Status
Overall, increased availability of statistics and gender statistics (mainly due to improved dissemination of sex-disaggregated statistics; more household surveys in less developed regions; and more use of administrative sources in more developed regions)
Nevertheless, quality gender statistics are still lacking in many countries.
Data scarcity in areas such as poverty; time use; violence against women; environment.
Data not collected in some countries

20. Engendering statistics: Status
Data already collected not adequately disseminated:
Data disseminated not disaggregated enough to allow the identification of population groups where gender differences are more pronounced
In many countries, dissemination of gender statistics is not integrated in regular outputs prepared by NSOs, such as analytical reports or databases.
Some countries still use old concepts and measurement that do not take into account gender differences and gender biases.

21. Engendering statistics: Status
Africa: Despite notable progress, Capacity is still being developed and mainstreaming a gender perspective in the statistical system remains a challenge for many countries. In 2011, a Global Review of GS Programmes. revealed the following:
Most African countries lacked a dedicated budget for gender statistics and only some benefited from ad hoc funds.
Gender focal points or units were primarily tasked with answering requests for gender statistics and the compilation and dissemination of the data
Only a few countries had established interministerial coordination mechanisms for overseeing the production of gender statistics at the national level.

22. Engendering statistics: Status
Only half of them had set in place permanent arrangements for user- producer dialogue, with a view to guiding the formulation of concepts and definitions and facilitating data collection programmes.
Very few countries have managed to achieve their objectives of mainstreaming gender into their statistics.
The common reasons for this include: lack of financial and human resources, and of political will. limited capacity to produce and use gender statistics

23. Question: Do you have a National Gender Stat. Programme in Uganda?
Led by UBOS? Minister in charge of Gender?
Implemented in coordination with which Ministries (coord. Mech.)?
Undertaken in collaboration with which partners, incl UN agencies?
What are strategies and activities (capacity-building activities/statistical outputs)?

24. Exercise
List all initiatives taken in Uganda to mainstream gender into statistics since , with specific focus on those taken in your areas of work
Discuss and list key achievements
Discuss and list key challenges
Propose a way forward on engendering statistical processes in Uganda

25. Thank you