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Session 10: Regional Perspective

Session 10: Regional Perspective. Workshop on Improving the Integration of a Gender Perspective into Official Statistics Chiba, Japan 16 to 19 April 2013. ESCAP Committee on Statistics (CST). Committee on Statistics. Two overarching, strategic goals:

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Session 10: Regional Perspective

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  1. Session 10:Regional Perspective Workshop on Improving the Integration of a Gender Perspective into Official Statistics Chiba, Japan 16 to 19 April 2013

  2. ESCAP Committee on Statistics (CST) Committee on Statistics Two overarching, strategic goals: (a) Ensuring that all countries in the region, by 2020, have the capability to provide an agreed basic range of population, economic, social and environment statistics; (b) Creating a more adaptive and cost-effective information management environment for national statistical offices through stronger collaboration.

  3. ESCAP Committee on Statistics (CST) Committee on Statistics Select Bureau Assist Regional coordination of statistical training Gender?! Economic Statistics Population and social statistics Agricultural statistics and rural development MDG monitoring Vital statistics Modernization of statistical information system

  4. Mainstreamed in all statistical activities (?)

  5. Recent activities: • Sep. 2010: Consultative Meeting to Develop a Regional Programme on Gender Statistics in Asia and the Pacific • 2nd CST, Dec. 2010: Report on the work of the secretariat on gender statistics (information paper) • Proposed developing a gender statistics programme for the Asia-Pacific region • 2011: To mobilize funds, ESCAP submitted a concept note for a proposal under the eighth tranche of the United Nations Development Account

  6. Recent activities: • 2011: A Working Group on Gender Statistics was established as part of the Thematic Working Group on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (TWG-GEEW) and is being co-chaired by the ESCAP and UN Women • 2011: In-country needs assessment; Bhutan and Indonesia • 2012: Regional review of gender statistics, as part of the global initiative • 3rd CST, Dec. 2012: Report on the work of the secretariat on gender statistics (information paper) • guidance was sought from the Committee on the development of the dedicated Regional Programme on Gender Statistics

  7. Linking with global initiatives • Minimum set of indicators • Global review of GS • EDGE initiative • Manuals (at least three)

  8. You started with… • What:gender equality, social indifference, women empowerment, sex discrimination. • Why: inequality exist, human rights, effective use of human resources. • For whom:for people, children & women, younger generation. • How:Data production, sex disaggregated data, training (experts & public), gender sensitive analysis, good coordination

  9. So how to…

  10. Groups Coordination Decision making Production Analysis and dissemination

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