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Measuring, Managing and Evaluating Gender Equality

From Numbers to Dialogue: The GID Database and Wikigender. Measuring, Managing and Evaluating Gender Equality. Denis Drechsler Economist OECD Development Centre. Stockholm, Sweden. 20 November, 2008. 1. Raising awareness on gender equality. 3. 4. Wikigender. Conclusions.

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Measuring, Managing and Evaluating Gender Equality

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  1. From Numbers to Dialogue: The GID Database and Wikigender Measuring, Managing and Evaluating Gender Equality Denis Drechsler Economist OECD Development Centre Stockholm, Sweden 20 November, 2008

  2. 1 Raising awareness on gender equality 3 4 Wikigender Conclusions From Numbers to Dialogue 2 The OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base 2 Title of Conference

  3. Initiating a Bottom-up Dialogue on Gender Statistics Raising Awareness on Gender Equality • Research, studies, and reports… • …to inform key actors and opinion-makers… • …and allow mutual learning and peer pressure • Power of statistics and indicators • Importance of a bottom-up dialogue 3

  4. The OECD Data Base on Gender GID-DB The OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base …and its innovation: Data on Social Institutions 4

  5. 12 Innovative New Variables Social Institutions Family Code Physical Integrity Civil Liberties Ownership Rights • Early marriage • Polygamy • Parental authority • Inheritance • Female genital mutilation • Violence against women • Missing women • Freedom ofmovement • Freedom of dress • Access to land • Access to credit • Access toproperty 5

  6. SocialInstitutions How do Social Institutions Fit in? Health and Wellbeing EducationalAttainment Political Empowerment Economic Participation 6

  7. High discrimination in social institutions Elevated discrimination in social institutions Low discrimination in social institutions Country not included Gender Inequality in Social Institutions 7

  8. Social Institutions and Women’s Empowerment 8

  9. GID: Important for Donor and Partner Countries

  10. GID: Latest Developments • Creation of country notes • Update of indicators, including a time dimension • New graphical features • Design of a composite index • In-depth country case studies

  11. Wikigender (a) • A community tool to promote gender equality • Resource to find information on statistics, country reports and actors in the area of gender equality • Open to inputs from external users: discuss and comment; post and draft 11

  12. Wikigender (b) • Combining a bottom-up with a top-down approach • 3-tiers: (i) unregistered users can read, (ii) registered users can edit and (iii) partners can protect content • Quality control: The Development Centre ensures quality of information with “Official Source” label • Community: Wikigender is open for external partners to manage and maintain the site 12

  13. Broad Coverage of Countries 13

  14. Detailed Country Notes… 14

  15. …with additional insights 15

  16. …and discussion 16

  17. Conclusions • Informed policy making requires high-quality statistics • Traditional sources of data are often insufficient • Timeliness, Scope, Quality • New actors need to be involved in data collection and dissemination • Bottom-up approach promises better information and more civic engagement for needed reforms • New Wikigender and improved GID Database 2009 17

  18. From Numbers to Dialogue: The GID Database and Wikigender For more information: www.oecd.org/dev/genderwww.wikigender.org denis.drechsler@oecd.org Stockholm, Sweden 20 November, 2008

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