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Global Gender Statistics Programme

Global Gender Statistics Programme. Francesca Grum , Chief Social and Housing Statistics Section United Nations Statistics Division. Outline. Global Gender Statistics Programme Overview Main areas of work EDGE project 5 th Global Forum on Gender Statistics.

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Global Gender Statistics Programme

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  1. Global Gender Statistics Programme Francesca Grum, Chief Social and Housing Statistics Section United Nations Statistics Division

  2. Outline • Global Gender Statistics Programme • Overview • Main areas of work • EDGE project • 5th Global Forum on Gender Statistics

  3. Global Gender Statistics Programme Mandated by the UN Statistical Commission Coordinated by the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics IAEG-GS Goal: 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 Implemented by the UN Statistics Division/key partners

  4. Programme areas and objectives • International Coordination • Objective: Improve global coherence • Methods • Objective: Promote methodological developments • Capacity-Building • Objective: Build technical capacity • Data Management & Dissemination • Objective: Improve access to data and materials

  5. 1. International Coordination • Improving coordination and synergies among existing initiatives on gender statistics Global Forums IAEG-GS 1st Rome, Dec 2007 2nd Accra, Jan 2009 -Since 2007 (7 meetings so far) -International, regional and national agencies -Annual meetings, 8th meeting in 2014 -UNSD secretariat -Chair: Mexico 4th Dead Sea, Mar 2012 3rd Manila, Oct 2010

  6. 2. Methods/ 3. Capacity-Building • Promoting methodological development and strengthening capacity including in emerging areas of gender concern • Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics • New Manual (available online on UNSD Wikiplatform) • Violence against Women • UN Guidelines for the Production of Statistics on Violence Against Women, 2013 • Time Use • International Classification of Activities for Time Use Statistics-ICATUS

  7. 4. Data Management & Dissemination • Data/metadata platform • Minimum set of Gender Indicators • Agreed by IAEG-GS in 2011 and by UN Stat Commission in 2013 • Continuation of the World’s Women series • - Analysis of trends in key areas, review of data availability

  8. Recent activities EDGE project – Evidence and Data for Gender Equality

  9. EDGE Project A 3-year initiative (UNSD and UN Women) Overall objective: Improving the integration of gender issues into the regular production of official statistics for better evidence-based policies Specific objectives: Compiling at the international level selected indicators: Having comparable gender indicators on health, education and employment Undertake methodological work “emerging issues”: Developing methods/guidelines to collect entrepreneurship and assets data, and piloting them in selected countries

  10. EDGE Results Results of pilot testing in selected countries 1 International platform for compiling and disseminating data and metadata on health, education and employment; Health Education Employment 2 Methodological report on standards for collection of comparable gender indicators related to entrepreneurship and asset ownership; 3

  11. 5th Global Forum in Mexico in 2014 Aguascalientes, Mexico 3 – 5 November 2014 Main focus: review methods/analysis and data to measure and monitor gender equality and women’s empowerment in following thematic “pillars”: • Women and the economy • Violence against women • Time Use • Political participation • The environment and women in armed conflicts

  12. Visit us at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/default.html

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