United Nations Secretariat Statistics Division Palestinian Central Bureau

United Nations Secretariat. Statistics Division Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics United Statistics Division Inter- Regional Workshop on the Production of Gender Statistics ‘User-producer dialogue’ 6 – 10 082007

United Nations Secretariat. Statistics Division Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics United Statistics Division Introduction User-producer dialogue one of the main activities in statistical operation, so we must make mechanisms to consolidate the relations between users and producers.

United Nations Secretariat. Statistics Division Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics United Statistics Division The creation and when? In general, user-producer dialogue is one of the PCBS principles for any statistical activity, according to GSP , it was created in 1996 since gender statistics program was established.

United Nations Secretariat. Statistics Division Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics United Statistics Division The operation of user producer dialogue To follow up the gender issues in Palestine and to decide how indicators are disseminated.

United Nations Secretariat. Statistics Division Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics United Statistics Division The user-producer dialogue meeting The group meets in average from 5 -10 times in the year.

United Nations Secretariat. Statistics Division Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics United Statistics Division The organizations in user-producer dialogue There is a steering-committee established from Ministries (ministry of women’s affairs), NGO’s (MIFTAH), International institutions (UNFPA), Policy Makers (Ministers, member of legislative council), and Researchers in the field of gender(Institute of Women’s Studies/Birzeit University).

United Nations Secretariat. Statistics Division Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics United Statistics Division Most notable achievements Helping in identifying the vulnerably groups in the country by trying to give answers on the following questions: who, where and why to be able to put answers to what(policies).

United Nations Secretariat. Statistics Division Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics United Statistics Division The most successful strategies Involving all partners in identifying and planning the program plans either through the steering-committee, workshops , userproducer dialogue, training course of users how to use the quantitative data in making policy reports and make networks between users and producers.

United Nations Secretariat. Statistics Division Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics United Statistics Division The challenges in fostering user-producer dialogue • The loss of executive side of laws. • Lack of users ability to deal with statistical number. • Weakness in statistical analysis of gender issues. • Political situation in Palestine.