LECTURE: GENDER ISSUES IN GLOBAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS Opoku Manu Asare

1. NATIONAL TRAINING WORKSHOPS WITH PRODUCERS AND USERS OF GENDER STATISTICS 2-4 October 2017, Kampala, Uganda LECTURE: GENDER ISSUES IN GLOBAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS Opoku Manu Asare

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 Evaluating and improving definitions, concepts, methods Tasks Forces/Expert Groups Intl. organizations Gender Units in CSOs Manuals, guidelines & handbooks 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. 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 Evaluationof the ILO Gender Mainstreaming Strategy. Selected Technical Materialsfor Engendering Statistics (cont’d)

8. UNSD Global Gender Statistics Programme • World Bank Group Gender Action Plan • ILO Gender Promotion Programme • FAO Gender and Development Plan of Action (2002-2007) • WHO program on Women, Health and Development • Others Global Gender Statistics Programmes 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

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. 26-28 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