Improving the Use of Gender and Population Factors in Agricultural Statistics

1. Improving the Use of Gender and Population Factors in Agricultural Statistics A Review of FAO’s Support to Member Countries in Gender Statistics UN IA-EGM on Development of Gender Statistics

2. Introduction • Many mandates increase demand for accurate and relevant gender statistics (=>World Food Summit Plan of Action) • FAO: SDW/ESS collaboration to mainstream gender considerations into agricultural statistics through capacity building and technical support to member countries (producers and users) UN Meeting on Statistical Capacity Building

3. FAO Strategies for Gender Mainstreaming in Ag Statistics • Production of technical guidelines and training materials; • Sensitisation/Training of both producers and users; • Technical Support in Gender to agricultural censuses & surveys (World Census of Agriculture); • Recoding & retabulation of existing data; • Preparation of GDD data bases & data sets, for policy decision-support UN Meeting on Statistical Capacity Building

4. Gender Statistics Materials and Activities • Technical handbooks and manuals:Agricultural Censuses and Gender Considerations: Concepts and Methodology (1999) • Dissemination materials:Filling the Data Gap: Gender-Sensitive Statistics for Agricultural Development (1999) UN Meeting on Statistical Capacity Building

5. Gender Statistics Materials and Activities • Training packages: “Gender-Disaggregated Data for Agriculture and Rural Development. Guide for Facilitators” • Other resource materials: numerous papers on related topics UN Meeting on Statistical Capacity Building

6. Ongoing Regional and Country Projects • National Collaboration: training and technical support (GDD workshops; World Census of Agriculture) • Regional Collaboration: AFCAS, ECE, other regions less frequently UN Meeting on Statistical Capacity Building

7. Gaps • Lack of awareness data needs and existing data • Sector technical statisticians unfamiliar with sex-disaggregated data needs • Planners insufficiently trained in sex-disaggregated data use • Problem establishing easy-to-use gender-related indicators. UN Meeting on Statistical Capacity Building

8. Remaining Challenges • Further gender mainstreaming in ag. censuses • Continued assessments of concepts & definitions • ID different ways to address complex gender issues in agricultural & rural sector • Enhancing capacity to use GDD; user-producer linkages • Funding for sub-national data analysis UN Meeting on Statistical Capacity Building

9. Successful Initiatives • Engaging national gender consultants for censuses • Introduction of the sub-holder concept • Activities that promote user-producer dialogue • Training workshops with follow-up activities • Case studies and gender statistical profiling • Partnerships with regional bodies UN Meeting on Statistical Capacity Building

10. Recommendations • Develop conceptual framework for mainstreaming in agricultural stats • Develop gender module for use in agricultural censuses and surveys • Explore other data sources (=>ag./rural module for time-use studies) • Support use of gender-sensitive agricultural statistics UN Meeting on Statistical Capacity Building

11. Recommendations • Support user-producer interactions in all sectors of gender statistics • Training of agricultural statistics users-producers in priority regions • Encourage retabulation/use of existing agricultural/rural data • Establish working group on agricultural and rural development to build partnerships UN Meeting on Statistical Capacity Building

12. Conclusion UN Meeting on Statistical Capacity Building