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Progress on GS Activities 3rd & 4th IAEG Meetings on GS

Neda Jafar

[email protected]

Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)4th Meeting of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics for the Arab CountriesDead Sea, 9-10 May 2016

Content

• TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS

• TECHNICAL MATERIALS

• CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES

• TECHNICAL ADVISORY SERVICES

• OBSERVATIONS ON GS MADE BY THE STATISTICAL COMMITTEE SESSIONS

• MAIN CONCLUSIONS OF STATISTICAL COMMISSION ON GS AREAS

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TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS

• Gender in Figures Bulletin 2013-2014

• Gender Equality chapter in the Annual Statistical Abstract

• Arab Gender Statistics Framework 2014• Reviewed 1999 GIsIn framework

• Deletion of a number of indicators• Aligning with UNSD framework• Addition of a number of new indicators

• Arab Metadata Handbook 2015

• Country Profile: Gender Lens pocket book 2014

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TECHNICAL MATERIALS

• Dashboard - Arab Development Monitor on Societal Progress

• Regional picture on progress achieved

• 3 profiles for each 22 Arab country

• Key development indicators including MDGs

• key youth indicators

• Key gender issues

• E-Catalogue of Gender Statistics 2016

• “Ensaf” Gender Statistics Newsletter

• collaborative effort between ESCWA and NSOs on regional and national activities and products since June 2012:

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E-learning

• ESCWA is finalizing the completion of the Arabic Gender Statistics e-learning Curricula

• What is Gender?• What is Gender Statistics ?• Why gender statistics is important

in policy making?• What are Gender indicators?• How to visualize gender statistics?

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Capacity Building Activities

• Workshop on Developing a National Gender Statistics Programme, Istanbul, Turkey, 19-21 May 2015

• Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, in cooperation with the Department of Statistics, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 December, 2014

• Inter-regional workshop on good practices in gender statistics, Aguascalientes, Mexico, 5 to 7 November, 2014

• Workshop on Development of Gender Indicators in the Arab Countries Istanbul , Turkey, 1-3 April, 2014

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• Workshop on “Gender Analysis of Census Data” Amman, 7 - 9 March 2013

• Arab Working Group on TUS Workshop, Cairo, 13-15 Nov 2012

• High Level Expert Consultative Meeting to Develop the Near East Action Plan to Implement the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Development Statistics in the Near East and North Africa Region” Cairo, 17-19 Sept 2012

• The 4th Global Forum on Gender Statistics, Jordan 27-29 March 2012

• The 8th Regional Training on DevInfo for Gender Analysis, Beirut, 5-9 March 2012

• Training workshop on "Engendering Official Statistics in Iraq", Beirut 29 Nov- 1 Dec 2011

Technical Advisory Services

SUDAN

Establishing Gender Statistics Unit in NSO

• Setting objectives

• Setting activities

• coordination with gender focal points in ministries

• Resource requirements

Training of gender statisticians and focal points on gender concepts and statistics

EGYPT

Assist CAPMAS to conduct VAW survey

• Training#1 field workers and supervisors on concepts & questionnaire

• Developing questionnaire as per latest international standards

• Training#2 practical and live case studies

• Finalizing questionnaire

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QATAR

2 missions undertaken:

• Advise on the

preparation of the

national gender statistics

framework

• Train the gender

statistics team and IT

personnel on developing

a gender Statistics

database through the use

of DevInfo technology

National Analytical Papers

To measure the economic implications on gender equality and women empowerment

• Contribution of Women's Unpaid Work to GDP in Morocco

• Pay Gap between Men and Women in Jordan

• Economic Cost of Violence against Women in Egypt

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Observations on GS Made by the Statistical Committees

11th Session of the ESCWA Statistical Committee

• The secretariat encouraged member States to apply the Arab GSFramework provide comments thereon and inform the secretariat if theyrequired any technical or advisory support for its implementation;

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1110th Session of the ESCWA Statistical Committee

• The wish of countries to continue the implementation of ongoingprojects in the field of gender statistics, and evidence-basedpolicies; the need to ensure adequate funding through theprovision of additional extra budgetary resources; and the need tostrengthen partnerships with international and regionalorganizations.

• Participants made a number of observations related to the nature of implemented activities, meeting the needs of countries in order to draw lessons for the future, particularly in the field of gender statistics

Future Steps

• Workshop on gender analysis for policy makers

• Training of trainers on gender statistics (based on e-learning)

• 5th IAEG Meeting on Gender Statistics of Arab countries

• Compiling good practices in mainstreaming gender statistics

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