EDGE Update on Project Implementation Francesca Grum Chief

EDGE Update on Project Implementation Francesca Grum, Chief Social and Housing Statistics Section United Nations Statistics Division

EDGE Project § A 3 -year initiative Overall objective: § Improving the integration of gender issues into the regular production of official statistics for better evidence-based policies Specific objectives: § Compiling at the international level selected Tier 1 indicators: Having comparable gender indicators on health, education and employment § Undertake methodological work on Tier 3 indicators: Developing methods/guidelines to collect entrepreneurship and assets data, and piloting them in selected countries United Nations Statistics Division

EDGE Results 1 2 3 Health Education Employment International platform for compiling and disseminating data and metadata on health, education and employment; Methodological report on standards for collection of comparable gender indicators related to entrepreneurship and asset ownership; Results of pilot testing in selected countries United Nations Statistics Division

Links between IAEG-GS and EDGE SC and Programme staff IAEG-GS: Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics AGEI: Advisory Group on Emerging Issues of IAEG-GS EDGE SC: EDGE Steering Committee United Nations Statistics Division

Work Plan: Overview 2012 2013 2014 2015 Inception phase 1. International database for health, education and employment indicators 2. Methodological work on entrepreneurship and assets indicators 3. Regional workshops and pilot countries selection United Nations Statistics Division

Work Plan: Overview 2012 2013 2014 2015 Pilot Data Collection Begins 1. Data collection in three countries and begin analysis 2. Data review workshop to present results and lessons learnt United Nations Statistics Division

Work Plan: Overview 2012 2013 2014 2015 Completion 1. Data collection in remaining two countries 2. Workshop to present results and make policy recommendations 3. Production of technical and advocacy reports United Nations Statistics Division

Work Plan: Implementation 2012 2013 2014 2015 Inception phase 1. International database for Initiated: through development of online platform for Min Set of Gender Indicators health, education and employment indicators Ongoing: Draft Technical Report on 2. Methodological work on Measuring Asset Ownership and Control entrepreneurship and from a Gender perspective assets indicators 3. Regional workshops and pilot countries selection Done: (a) WHY measuring asset ownership and control from a gender perspective; (b) WHICH assets to consider due to their relevance for gender analysis; and (c) HOW to collect gender sensitive asset data in an effective and sustainable way. United Nations Statistics Division

Pilot Countries Country Potential survey(s) for EDGE piloting China Integrated Household Survey 2014; Agricultural Census 2016 Georgia Integrated Household Survey April 2015 Ghana Household-based agricultural census 2014; householdbased integrated enterprise survey 2014; LFS 2015 (maybe) Maldives Household income and expenditure survey 2015 Mongolia Household Social and Economic Survey 2015 (pretesting of questions may be done in 2014) Philippines In a module of LFS January or October 2015 Rwanda Integrated Household Living Condition Survey (EICV 5, 2016) Uganda Annual Panel Household surveys; consumption and other surveys (household-based) Vanuatu United Nations Statistics Division Household Income and Expenditure survey 2015

Year Activities 2013 Technical Report on Measuring Individual Level Asset Ownership and Control finalized, with options on certain operational elements Pilot countries begin conducting qualitative study on contextual information and provide list of activities and related cost estimates for piloting module/questions on asset ownership EDGE to commission additional study on lessons learned from the GAGP 2014 Experiment field operation with different options (China, Philippines, Uganda) Collecting asset ownership data through questions (or a questionnaire module) in Uganda and Ghana Contextual information available for all EDGE pilot countries 2015 Collecting asset ownership data through questions (or a questionnaire module) in China, Georgia, Philippines, Mongolia, Vanuatu, Maldives, Rwanda Data analysed and disseminated 2016 International guidelines on collecting data on asset ownership at individual level presented and approved by the UN Statistical Commission The Minimum Set of Gender indicators on asset ownership moved from Tier-III to Tier-II United Nations Statistics Division

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