Global Gender Statistics Programme Haoyi Chen Social and

Global Gender Statistics Programme Haoyi Chen Social and Housing Statistics Section United Nations Statistics Division Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1 -4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division

Outline • Global Gender Statistics Programme – Overview – Main areas of work • EDGE project Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1 -4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division

Global Gender Statistics Programme Mandated by the UN Statistical Commission Coordinated by the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics IAEG-GS Goal: To enhance the capacity of countries to collect, disseminate and use reliable statistics and indicators to assess the relative situation of women and men in gender-sensitive, policy-relevant areas Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1 -4 December 2014 Implemented by the UN Statistics Division/key partners United Nations Statistics Division

Programme areas and objectives 1. International Coordination v Objective: Improve global coherence 2. Methods v Objective: Promote methodological developments 3. Capacity-Building v Objective: Build technical capacity 4. Data Management & Dissemination v Objective: Improve access to data and materials Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1 -4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division

1. International Coordination • Improving coordination and synergies among existing initiatives on gender statistics Global Forums IAEG-GS 1 st Rome, Dec 2007 2 nd Accra, Jan 2009 -Since 2007 -International, regional and national agencies -Annual meetings, 8 th 3 rd Manila, Oct 2010 meeting in 2014 4 th Dead Sea, Mar 2012 -UNSD secretariat 5 th Aguascalientes, Nov 2014 Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1 -4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division

2. Methods/ 3. Capacity-Building • Promoting methodological development and strengthening capacity including in emerging areas of gender concern • Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics Ø New Manual (available online on UNSD Wikiplatform) • Violence against Women Ø UN Guidelines for the Production of Statistics on Violence Against Women, 2013 • Time Use Ø International Classification of Activities for Time Use Statistics-ICATUS Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1 -4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division

4. Data Management & Dissemination • Data/metadata platform – Minimum Set of Gender Indicators • Agreed by IAEG-GS in 2011 and by UN Stat Commission in 2013 • Data available online • Continuation of the World’s Women series - Analysis of trends in key areas, review of data availability - March 2015: soft launch of the World’s Women 2015 Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1 -4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division

Minimum Set of Gender Indicators @ unstats. un. org/unsd/gender/data United Nations Statistics Division Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1 -4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division

Minimum Set of Gender Indicators • Internationally-agreed indicators to monitor gender equality and women’s empowerment (IAEG-GS 2011 and UN Statistical Commission 2013) – Gender indicators (52) – Gender indicators related to national norms (11) • Five domains – Economic structures, participation in productive activities and – – access to resources Education Health and related services Human rights of women and the girl child Public life and decision-making Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1 -4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division

Organization of indicators in Tiers Tier I • Indicators conceptually clear, with an agreed international definition and regularly produced by countries International data compilation Tier II • Indicators conceptually clear, with an agreed international definition, but not yet regularly produced by countries Promoting capacity building activities Tier III • Indicators for which international standards need still to be developed and not regularly produced by countries Methodological developments – e. g. , EDGE project Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1 -4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division

Recent activities EDGE project – Evidence and Data for Gender Equality Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1 -4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division

EDGE Project § A 3 -year initiative (UNSD and UN Women) 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 indicators: Having comparable gender indicators on health, education and employment § Undertake methodological work on “emerging issues”: Developing methods/guidelines to collect entrepreneurship and assets ownership data, and piloting them in selected countries Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1 -4 December 2014 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 Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1 -4 December 2014 United Nations Statistics Division

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