Role of UN Women in Production and Use of Gender Statistics in Uganda: Status and Challenges

1. 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

3. The Global Framework : FPI on Gender Statistics • Making Every Women and Girls Count (MEWGC) 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. 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 Statistics 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 2011. The stakeholders are UBOS, MDAs 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

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” (2016-2020) 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

26. THANKS!! (for Feedback : sadananda.mitra@ unwomen.org )