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.

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

Salar Tayyib and Zsófia BossányiFAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU)

UNECE Work Session on Gender Statistics 12-14 March 2012

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Today’s presentation

• 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

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GENDER STATISTICS

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Regional capacity development

• Training in collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data (SDD)

• Exchange of best practices/ methodologies• Creation of a gender focal point network in NSOs

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

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Gender and Agriculture Statistics Framework (GASF) Project (2012-13)

• Donor: Turkish Government• Beneficiaries: 3 countries (Turkey, Tajikistan & Kyrgyz Republic)

The 5 Steps of the GASF:1) identify gender issues2) list relevant indicators3) identify data sources4) data production & analysis5) results dissemination

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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

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Research on the status of rural women and men

• 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

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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

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CORE SET OF GENDER INDICATORS IN AGRICULTURE

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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

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DFID Livelihoods Framework

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The FAO Socio-economic and Gender Analysis Framework (SEAGA)

• Who does what?• Who owns what?• Who has access to/controls what?• Who knows what?• Who benefits?• Who should be included in development programmes?

The 6 Key Questions:

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Livelihoods Framework

Global Strategy

Livelihood Assets Key variables Core Data Items Dimensions Human capital Household composition Household composition By sex Social

Education Highest level of education completed One digit ISCED by sex Social

Skills N/A N/A Health Household

consumption Consumption of core crops/livestock/etc. in quantity and value Economic Nutritional status

Employment

Economically active population No. of people in working age by sex Economic Labor status Employed, unemployed, inactive by sex Social Status in employment Self-employment and employee by sex Social Economic sector in employment

International standard industrial classification by sex Social

Occupation in employment

International standard classification of occupations by sex Social

Number of family/hired workers on the holding By sex Social

Migration N/A N/A

Links to the Global Strategy(excerpt – full table in paper)

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Proposed Core Set of Indicators- Methodology

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(1) Proposed Core Set of Gender Indicators in Agriculture

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(2) Proposed Core Set of Gender Indicators in Agriculture

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Proposed Core Set of Gender Indicators in Agriculture

• 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

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Main recommendations from national experts (25 countries from the REU Region)

• 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

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The Way Forward

• 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)