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Regional Meeting Heads of Statistics and Planning Noumea, 12-16 July

This regional meeting aims to discuss the importance of culture and gender statistics in census and household surveys. The event will explore ways to measure and value the contributions of culture to economic development, as well as improve institutional capacity on gender statistics. Key topics include development of technical tools, involvement of focal points, and addressing capacity issues.

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Regional Meeting Heads of Statistics and Planning Noumea, 12-16 July

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  1. Regional Meeting Heads of Statistics and PlanningNoumea, 12-16 July Census and Household survey applications: Culture and gender statistics

  2. Outline Introduction Purpose • Overview and update – culture and gender statistics work • Related initiatives • Engage and get your support as national statisticians and planners for this work at country level Discussion

  3. Culture Statistics • Culture as a key driver of development • Work through and with the Council of Pacific Arts and Culture • Mapping the future of culture and its potential to enhance and sustain economic development in the Pacific • 5 areas of work • Key to this meeting is area 1) development of technical tools to value and measure the economic, political and social contributions of culture to development • Note page 2 of information paper

  4. Work to date • Using the Census and HIES • Involvement of culture focal points in country to join national task forces for these national statistical exercise • Using the development indicators initiative • Providing technical assistance

  5. Gender Statistics • Improving institutional capacity on gender statistics – responding to country requests. • SPC’s core mandate is to help strengthen national institutional capacity for integration of gender as a critical cross-cutting issue in all aspects of development and governance. • Work began in 2006; making progress but slow; multi-year programme. • To improve the collection, reporting, analysis and use of statistics on men and women in the Pacific; provide national women’s machineries and other data users with the skills required to use gender indicators to influence national policies and programmes and to monitor and evaluate progress towards gender equality.

  6. Related initiatives • Youth development indicators • Gender Based Violence surveys • Gender mainstreaming capacity stock take work • Culture, gender and youth policy work • Proposed economic costing of gender equality including of VAW • Measuring well being in Vanuatu

  7. For meeting to consider: • Ways in which this work can be supported at both regional and at country level. • At country level to include culture, gender and youth focal points in taskforces for census and other national statistical collections. • Recognise the limited capacity in these social statistical areas with CROP and at country level and address these capacity issues in regional and national support plans; and donor support programmes.

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