Measuring, Managing and Evaluating Gender Equality Stockholm, Sweden 20 November, 2008 From Numbers to Dialogue: The GID Database and Wikigender Denis.

Measuring, Managing and Evaluating Gender Equality

Stockholm, Sweden

20 November, 2008

From Numbers to Dialogue: The GID

Database and Wikigender

Denis DrechslerEconomist

OECD Development Centre


From Numbers to Dialogue – The GID Database and Wikigender

From Numbers to Dialogue

Title of Conference

11 Raising awareness on gender equalityRaising awareness on gender equality

The OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Data BaseThe OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base22

33 WikigenderWikigender

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44 ConclusionsConclusions



Raising Awareness on Gender Equality

• Research, studies, and reports…

• …to inform key actors and opinion-makers…

• …and allow mutual learning and peer pressure

• Power of statistics and indicators

• Importance of a bottom-up dialogue

Initiating a Bottom-up Dialogue on Gender Statistics

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The OECD Data Base on Gender

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Data on Social Institutions

GID-DBThe OECD Gender,

Institutions and Development Data

Base

…and its innovation:



12 Innovative New Variables

Social Institutions

• Early marriage

• Polygamy

• Parental authority

• Inheritance

• Freedom ofmovement

• Freedom of dress

• Female genital mutilation

• Violence against women

• Missing women

• Access to land

• Access to credit

• Access toproperty

Ownership RightsCivil LibertiesPhysical IntegrityFamily Code

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How do Social Institutions Fit in?

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Political Empowerment

EducationalAttainment

Health and Wellbeing

SocialInstitutions

Economic Participation



Gender Inequality in Social Institutions

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Elevated discrimination in social institutionsHigh discrimination in social institutions

Low discrimination in social institutionsCountry not included



Social Institutions and Women’s Empowerment

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ZWE

ZMB

YEM

VNM

VEN

URYUSAGBR

UAE

UKR

UGA

TUR

TUN

TGO

THA

TZA

SYR

CHE

SWE

SDN

LKAESP ZAF

SVK

SEN

SAU

RUS

ROUPRTPOL

PHL

PER

PRYPAN

PAK

OMN

NOR

NGA

NER

NIC

NZL

NLD

NPL

NAM

MMR

MOZ

MAR

MEXMUSMRT

MLTMLI

MYS

MWI

MDG

LUX

LBY

LBNKWT

KORKEN

JOR

JPNITA

ISRIRL

IRN

IDN

IND

ISL

HUN

HND

HTI

GNB

GRC

GHA

DEUFRA

FIN

FJI

ETH

EST

ERI

GNQ

SLV

EGY

ECU

DOM

DNKCZE

CUB

CIV

CRI

COL

CHNCHL

TCD

CAF

CAN

CMR

BFA

BGR

BRA BWA

BOL

BENBEL

BGD

BHR

AUT

AUSARMARG

AGO

DZA

ALB

020

40

60

0 .2 .4 .6 .8Institutions

Fitted values WWORKING (non-agri %)



GID: Important for Donor and Partner Countries

What do the indicators tell us?

Country Overall Score Possible Focus

Philippines 0.0016 [1] --

El Salvador 0.0017 [2] --

Paraguay 0.0018 [3] --

Malaysia 0.094 [47] Civil Liberties (0.5 [84])

Congo, DR 0.190 [64] Ownership Rights (0.833 [94])

Sudan 0.715 [98]Civil liberties (1 [98]), Ownership rights (1 [98]), Physical Integrity (0.825 [96]), Family Code (0.715 [91])



GID: Latest Developments

• Creation of country notes• Update of indicators, including a time dimension• New graphical features• Design of a composite index• In-depth country case studies



Wikigender (a)

• A community tool to promote gender equality

• Resource to find information on statistics, country reports and actors in the area of gender equality

• Open to inputs from external users: discuss and comment; post and draft

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Wikigender (b)

• Combining a bottom-up with a top-down approach

• 3-tiers: (i) unregistered users can read, (ii) registered users can edit and (iii) partners can protect content

• Quality control: The Development Centre ensures quality of information with “Official Source” label

• Community: Wikigender is open for external partners to manage and maintain the site

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Broad Coverage of Countries

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Detailed Country Notes…

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…with additional insights

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…and discussion

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Conclusions

• Informed policy making requires high-quality statistics• Traditional sources of data are often insufficient

– Timeliness, Scope, Quality• New actors need to be involved in data collection and

dissemination• Bottom-up approach promises better information and

more civic engagement for needed reforms• New Wikigender and improved GID Database 2009

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For more information:

Stockholm, Sweden

20 November, 2008

From Numbers to Dialogue: The GID

Database and Wikigender

www.oecd.org/dev/gender

www.wikigender.org

[email protected]

Measuring, Managing and Evaluating Gender Equality Stockholm, Sweden 20 November, 2008 From Numbers to Dialogue: The GID Database and Wikigender Denis.

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