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GENDER STATISTICS: the work of the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)

GENDER STATISTICS: the work of the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU). Salar Tayyib and Zsófia Bossányi FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU) UNECE Work Session on Gender Statistics 12-14 March 2012. Today’s presentation. GENDER STATISTICS

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GENDER STATISTICS: the work of the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)

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  1. GENDER STATISTICS: the work of the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU) Salar Tayyib and Zsófia Bossányi FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU) UNECE Work Session on Gender Statistics 12-14 March 2012

  2. Today’s presentation Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia • GENDER STATISTICS • Regional Capacity Development • Gender and Agriculture Statistics Framework (GASF) • Data-based research on the status of rural population • Core set of gender indicators • CORE SET OF GENDER INDICATORS

  3. GENDER STATISTICS Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

  4. Regional capacity development • SDD Regional Workshop (ESW)- Prague, Czech Republic, Nov. 2010. • 5 countries from Central and Eastern Europe • SDD Regional Workshop - Ankara, Turkey Apr. 2011. • 9 Countries from Central Asia & S.E. Europe • SDD & Indicators National Workshop - Tirana, Albania Nov. 2011. • 22nd Expert Meeting of the Working Party on Women – Rome, Italy, Feb 2012 • Census data re-tabulation – Chisinau, Moldova • Second half of 2012 Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia • Training in collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data (SDD) • Exchange of best practices/ methodologies • Creation of agender focal point networkin NSOs

  5. Gender and Agriculture Statistics Framework(GASF) Project (2012-13) The 5 Steps of the GASF: identify gender issues list relevant indicators identify data sources data production & analysis results dissemination • Donor: Turkish Government • Beneficiaries: 3countries (Turkey, Tajikistan & Kyrgyz Republic) Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

  6. Gender and Agriculture Statistics Framework (GASF) Developed in South-East Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) through an FAO ESW/SIDA Project Outputs:National Gender Profiles of Agricultural Households Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

  7. Research on the status of rural women and men Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia • Collation and review of data from NSOs • Literature review Paper for the FAO Regional Conference for Europe (Baku, 2012) covering Albania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Tajikistan • Gives an overview and identifies gaps

  8. Gender Indicators in Agriculture FAO REU Technical paper presented at the Fourth Wye City Conference (Brazil, Nov 2011) : CORE GENDER INDICATORS FOR ASSESSING THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL POPULATION The two papers will be combined and officially published as FAO resource/methodological paper Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

  9. CORE SET OF GENDER INDICATORS IN AGRICULTURE Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

  10. Structure • Livelihoods Framework (DFID) & SEAGA • Links to the Global Strategy to improve agricultural and rural statistics • Methodology for indicator selection • Proposed Core Set of Indicators • Recommendations and the way forward Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

  11. DFID Livelihoods Framework Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

  12. The FAO Socio-economic and Gender Analysis Framework (SEAGA) The 6 Key Questions: Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia Who does what? Who owns what? Who has access to/controls what? Who knows what? Who benefits? Who should be included in development programmes?

  13. Links to the Global Strategy(excerpt – full table in paper) Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

  14. Proposed Core Set of Indicators- Methodology Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

  15. (1) Proposed Core Set of Gender Indicators in Agriculture Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

  16. (2) Proposed Core Set of Gender Indicators in Agriculture Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

  17. Proposed Core Set of Gender Indicators in Agriculture Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia • Core set of 18 gender indicators in agriculture • Initially proposed at a global level, currently under refinement for a regional-specific core set (Europe and Central Asia) • Consultation with 25 countries on 20-21 February, Expert Meeting of the Working Party on Women, Rome, FAO HQ • The main findings of the consultation: • Data available for 6 to 15 of the indicators from various sources • lack of data on social networks/organizations, agricultural extension services and food security status

  18. Main recommendations from national experts (25 countries from the REU Region) Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia Use of other sources such as the Household Budget Survey (HBS), the Living Standard Measurement Survey (LSMS), Time-use Surveys etc. FAO to provide clear definitions and terminology and statistical instruments to be used. Streamline the terminology through consultation with other international organizations working in the field of gender/agricultural statistics

  19. The Way Forward Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia Further consultations with countries to fine-tune and streamline the proposed gender indicators in agriculture Sub-regional workshops to develop national capacities on the use of the core set (in Ministries of Agriculture and NSOs)

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