Improving Gender Statistics A World Bank Plan of Action

1. Improving Gender StatisticsA World Bank Plan of Action Sulekha Patel, Senior Demographer Development Data Group The World Bank

2. World Bank Gender Action Plan • Objective: • Advance women’s economic empowerment through shared growth • Improve mainstreaming and integration of gender issues in the economic sectors • Framework: • Action Plan targets four key markets, with potential to produce observable results in a reasonable time frame • Product • Finance • Land • labor

3. Gender Statistics Strategy:Provide support for Gender Action Plan • Proposes actions in three areas: • Improve availability of gender indicators, based on mining data from surveys, initially working with target countries • Build national capacity to produce relevant data to make gender analysis an integral part of countries’ results-based agendas • Identify new indicators and establish strategies to support monitoring progress in four key markets identified by GAP and establish strategies to collect data

4. Modalities of operation Two main strategies: • Collaboration: • with international agencies and academic and research institutions • Develop synergies with existing national and international programs • Bank commitments: • Support for the Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics (MAPS) through the Development Grant Facility and the Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building • Raise the profile of gender statistics through Data Quality Assessment Frameworks and the General Data Dissemination System for social statistics • Disseminate data and statistics through the World Development Indicators

5. Strategy for gender statistics: 1. Improve availability • Data mining of LSMS and other surveys in the Bank’s database: • Identify and fill gaps in coverage of data needed for monitoring progress of GAP • Identify new areas and indicators to monitor for gender equality • Make recommendations for filling gaps: • Develop survey modules and model questions for surveys • Review scheduling and co-ordination of surveys • Examine other sources of data and experiences with data collection and reporting

6. Strategy for gender statistics:2. Build national capacity • Collaborate with other agencies to develop and roll out training to engender national statistics offices: • With UNECE to improve collection, use, and reporting of gender statistics (under way, and to be replicated in other regions) • To collect and use sex-disaggregated employment data in partnership with the ILO • Work with existing programs to add gender indicators to household surveys and co-ordinate survey activities: • International Household Survey Network, • Accelerated Data Program for Sub-Saharan Africa • Pilot new modules in Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire • Under umbrella of MAPS, work with PARIS 21 to engender National Strategies for the Development of Statistics

7. Strategy for gender statistics:3. Identify new indicators • Working with this sub-group, establish partnerships with UN and other agencies and researchers to identify appropriate indicators, methodologies, and data collection modalities • Launch a multi-year research and data collection exercise to increase availability of individual asset ownership