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Advancing Gender Statistics for Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean

Learn about the production and use of gender statistics and indicators focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean, including census data, surveys, and international cooperation. Explore ECLAC's efforts to provide essential information for policy-making and promoting gender equality.

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Advancing Gender Statistics for Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean

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  1. GLOBAL FORUM ON GENDER STATISTICS Rome, ISTAT, 10-12 December 2007 UNFPA Session “Producing gender statistics through population censuses: Perspectives from the regional commissions” GENDER STATISTICS AND INDICATORS For public policy-making In Latin America and the Caribbean María Nieves Rico Women and Development Unit, ECLAC

  2. ECLAC. Production of gender statistics and indicators United Nations system C O O R D I N A T I O N Regional commissions Governments Women and Development Unit ECLAC Divisions

  3. Regional project on the use of gender indicators for public policy-making (2000 to present) (UNFPA, UNIFEM, …). • Design and implementation of an integrated, comparative system of gender indicators and statistics (32 country profiles). Processing of household surveys for 18 countries (1994-1999-2002 and 2004/2005). • Annual updates and dissemination via ECLAC publications, its Web portal [ www.eclac.cl/mujer ] and CEPALSTAT • Inter-agency coordination, preparation and distribution of a technical assistance manual on the production and use of gender indicators.

  4. Objectives of the system of indicators • To produce the information needed to increase the visibility of women’s situation and the inequality existing between men and women • To disseminate comparable information • To promote the use of new indicators (poverty, violence, labour) • To strengthen new information sources (time-use surveys) • To provide technical inputs for policy decisions • To contribute to user-producer links • To fulfil mandates on the production and dissemination of gender statistics: • Regional Programme of Action for the Women of Latin America and the Caribbean (Mar del Plata, 1994) • Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995)

  5. Countries: Production of official statistics Population and housing censuses Agricultural censuses Household surveys Vital statistics Violence surveys Time-use surveys Administrative records International agencies UNESCO ILO WHO/PAHO FAO UNICEF ECLAC – CELADE Information sources used by the ECLAC system

  6. Censuses as an information source • Areas covered: Education, fertility, mortality, employment, health and environmental conditions…. • Indicators and tabulations for a more in-depth exploration: internal and international migration, membership in racial and ethnic groups, lifecycle (girls and young women, older adults), activity • ECLAC activities: Caribbean: 1990(11 countries)and 2000(6 countries) census round Latin America: 2000 (6 countries) census round

  7. Millennium Development Objectives • 11 country studies (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Paraguay, Venezuela (BR) and Uruguay) (2004-2007) • Regional overview of the Millennium challenges in the sphere of gender equality (2007) • A 2006 report on the Millennium Development Goals that looks at equality beween the sexes and the autonomy of women in Latin America and the Caribbean • Project on strengthening the capacity of Latin American and Caribbean countries to fulfil the MDGs • Project on interregional cooperation to strenghten social inclusion, gender equality and healthpromotion within the MDG framework

  8. ECLAC – Governments of the region • Technical cooperation • Seminars and workshops • Inter-agaency agreements • National gender statistics systems • Statistical Conference of the Americas working group on gender

  9. Thank you María Nieves Rico Women and Development Unit, ECLAC

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