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Building Capacity for Gender Monitoring in Kosovo

Building Capacity for Gender Monitoring in Kosovo. Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals November 19-20, 2003 . Objective of the exercise. To deepen the analysis of current gender issues in the country; To institutionalize systematic monitoring of future developments;

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Building Capacity for Gender Monitoring in Kosovo

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  1. Building Capacity for Gender Monitoring in Kosovo Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals November 19-20, 2003

  2. Objective of the exercise • To deepen the analysis of current gender issues in the country; • To institutionalize systematic monitoring of future developments; • To raise gender awareness and place gender on development agenda; • To set up institutions and mechanisms accountable for mainstreaming gender into policy making.

  3. Intended Actions • Improve gender indicators and gender disaggregated statistics; • Assist local experts in carrying out qualitative research aimed at supplementing the quantitative data collected through KOS activities; • Assist KOS in the production of a statistical bulletin on men and women in Kosovo; • Help the Kosovo government to set monitorable targets; • Put in place the institution set-up for monitoring progress.

  4. What are the key issues (1)? • Government is committed to gender equality; • Access to data is relatively good; BUT • Gender disaggregated statistics not calculated on a regular basis; • Information on priority gender issues limited; • Existing information dose not feed into policy making.

  5. What are the key issues (2)? Men and women experience differential access to public services; • About 29% of rural girls complete secondary school, compared with about 61% of boys; • Exact figures are unknown but Kosovo appears to have the highest infant mortality rates in Europe; • Maternal Mortality is high compared with the region • Men account for about 88% of the private sector employment and a large proportion of discouraged workers are women

  6. What are the missing pieces? • Some basis gender indicators. • Understanding of why males and females experience differential access to public services • Ie, are perceptions of satisfaction different? • Feeding information into policy making. • Developing short-term and medium- term targets and choosing relevant impact and output indicators.

  7. Existing Institutions (1): Government • Inter-ministerial committee (Prime Minister level); • Gender affairs office of UN provisional Government; • Gender-equality Commission of the Kosovo Assembly; • Drafted Law on Equal Opportunity. • Gender municipal officers (reporting to inter-ministerial committee) Gender equality is a governmentpriority.

  8. Existing Institutions (2): Civil Societies • An active NGO community exists • An umbrella women’s NGO group meets regularly and is facilitated by UNIFEM • A business-women’s network exists within Kosovo .  participatory monitory could be easily incorporated into gender monitoring system.

  9. Data Collection (1): Household data • Statistical Office of Kosovo (SOK) administers on a regular basistwo surveys that are useful for tracking gender outcomes: • Household Budget Survey; • Labor Force Survey. • In addition the Demographic and Health Survey has been administered occasionally. • However no gender disaggregated statistics are generated.

  10. Data Collection (1): Institutional • School-level data tracked by the Ministry of Education; •  Morbidity and mortality statistics tracked by the Ministry of Health; •   Registry on unemployed kept by labor offices. Statistics not available by gender.

  11. Main Challenges • Make the institutions, the data providers, the other policy makers, the civil societies and the donors MEET; • Institutionalize use of gender disaggregated data in policy making; • Acquire qualitative information on issues not covered by existing data collection.

  12. Ways Forward • Build the capacity of the Inter-ministerial committee and institutionalize its role as monitoring institution; • Increase the exchange of information between the committee, the UNMIK Gender affairs office and KOS; • Increase data collection capacity of gender municipal officers (reporting to inter-ministerial committee); • Establish a participatory monitoring system; • Increase capacity to analyze statistics • Coordinate donors action

  13. Many of these steps are already underway!

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