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GLOBAL FORUM ON GENDER STATISTICS

26-28 January 2009 Accra, Ghana
UNIFEMs advocacy strategies for Gender
Statistics

• By
• Maténin COULIBALY
• UNIFEM COTE DIVOIRE

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• OUTLINE OF THE PRESENTATION

• Introduction
• Objectives
• UNIFEM advocacy for gender statistics
• Conclusion

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• INTRODUCTION

• UNIFEM
• UNIFEM is the womens fund at the United Nations.
  It provides financial and technical assistance to
  innovative programs and strategies to foster
  womens empowerment and gender equality
• UNIFEM strategic areas
• Strengthening womens economic security and
  rights
  
• Ending violence against women
• Reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and
  girls
  
• Achieving gender equality in democratic
  governance in times of peace as well as war
  

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• INTRODUCTION

• UNIFEM mandates
• Support innovative and experimental activities
  benefiting women in line with national and
  regional priorities
  
• Serve as a catalyst, with the goal of ensuring
  the appropriate involvement of women in
  mainstream development activities, as often as
  possible at the pre-investment stage
• Play an innovative and catalytic role in relation
  to the United Nations overall system of
  development cooperation
  
• Importance of gender statistics for UNIFEM and
  its partners
  
• Need gender statistics to boost awareness of its
  concerns
  
• Need gender statistics to enable tracking all
  forms of inequality between men and women
  
• Need gender statistics for economic and social
  policy formulation, implementation and monitoring

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• INTRODUCTION

• UNIFEM plays a key role in promoting the
  production of GS
  
• Advocacy activities to promote the production of
  statistics for gender-equality monitoring,
  planning and programming
  
• Capacity building, including training and
  collaborating with other institutions
  
• Dissemination of research reports on gender and
  compilation of statistics in accessible formats
  
• Several advocacy activities have been initiated
  in many countries
  

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• OBJECTIVES

• General Objective
• To share UNIFEM experience on advocacy for gender
  statistics
  
• Specific Objectives
• To present UNIFEM advocacy activities for gender
  statistics
  
• To present key successes and challenges

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• UNIFEM ADVOCACY ACTIVITIES FOR GENDER STATISTICS

• Advocacy activities for gender data collection
• Collaboration with and sensitization of producers
  for mainstreaming gender in data collection tools
  
  
• Gender mainstreaming in censuses to make womens
  contribution visible UNIFEM works in partnership
  with governments, UN agencies and NGO to engender
  censuses and raise awareness of women importance
  in the economy
• Gender mainstreaming in household surveys to
  identify discrimination by revealing
  sex-differentiated outcomes in economic and
  social conditions, UNIFEM supports the
  engendering of surveys instruments on poverty
• Specific data collection for awareness raising
  and policy advocacy UNIFEM has supported the
  collection of specific gender data, e.g., time
  use survey, survey on gender based violence

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• UNIFEM ADVOCACY ACTIVITIES FOR GENDER STATISTICS

• Advocacy activities for gender data compilation
  and dissemination
  
• Gender data compilation and dissemination are
  used as an advocacy strategy for improving gender
  statistics availability
  
• Collaboration with statisticians and researchers
  to publish sex-disaggregated data (data bases,
  brochures, etc.) contributes to advocacy within
  data producers networks for systematic
  compilation of gender statistics
• Policy advocacy activities to enhance gender
  statistics production
  
• UNIFEM work on engendering MDG reports is used as
  an advocacy tool to influence the development and
  production of new gender statistics
  

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• UNIFEM ADVOCACY ACTIVITIES FOR GENDER STATISTICS

• Other advocacy activities
• Workshops and technical meeting for gender
  statistics advocacy and Gender Responsive
  budgeting
  
• UNIFEM meets with NGOs, researchers and data
  producers to report progress on gender data in
  order to induce change in gender sensitive data
  production
• Global and regional advocacy to support the
  application of GRB
  
• Capacity building as a tool for gender statistics
  advocacy
  
• Collaboration with training institutions to
  induce changes in favor of introducing gender in
  their training curricula
  

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• KEY SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES

• Key successes
• Gender mainstreaming in population censuses
• UNIFEM has supported engendering the censuses in
  India, Nepal and Pakistan
  
• Indian Census 2001
• UNIFEM sought to ensure the collection of data
  that would accurately reflect womens work
  
• Collaborated with Census Commissioner and the
  Department of Women and Child Development
  
• Partnership with UNICEF and UNFPA

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• KEY SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES

• Gender mainstreaming in household survey
• In Côte dIvoire UNIFEM has supported
  engendering the 2008 Côte dIvoire household
  survey on poverty for the elaboration of its
  final PRSP
• UNIFEM collaborated with INS to engender the
  survey instruments and produce gender sensitive
  data relevant to poverty analysis
  
• UNIFEM and INS worked together to integrate
  gender in the PRSP drafting, revision and
  validation
  
• Specific surveys
• In Tanzania UNIFEM supported a Time Use Survey
• The TUS was conducted as an integral module of
  the National Labor Survey to produce relevant
  labor data for implementation of its PRSP and MDGs

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• KEY SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES

• In Southern Africa UNIFEM commissioned a study
  on Unpaid Care Work in 2002
  
• Intended for advocacy on unpaid care work, tools
  and methodologies for data collection, production
  and analysis of unpaid care work
  
• In Côte dIvoire UNIFEM, in partnership with
  UNFPA and UNDP, supported a survey on gender
  based violence
  
• Survey undertaken to produce statistics on GBV
• Advocacy to support Gender Responsive Budgeting
• In 2001, UNIFEM organized an international
  conference on GRB
  
• At local level, UNIFEM supported initiatives in
  India, Morocco, Uganda and the Philippines
  

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• KEY SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES

• Capacity building as an advocacy tool for gender
  statistics
  
• In Côte dIvoire UNIFEM collaborates with ENSEA
  to introduce gender courses in the training
  curricula of its students
  
• In Mexico, Dominican Republic and Guatemala
  UNIFEM has carried out capacity building
  workshops on gender indicators for the NSO
  
• In Venezuela and Ecuador UNIFEM organized
  workshops in partnership with FAO, UNFPA, NSOs
  and National Womens Machineries on the need to
  mainstream gender in statistics
• In Colombia UNIFEM, in partnership with DANE
  (NSO) organized a training course on gender and
  poverty in Colombia in order to improve data
  collection instruments

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• KEY SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES

• Challenges
• Engendering national statistical systems to meet
  user needs on gender mainstreaming
  
• Prioritizing and developing new sources of data
  and revising existing sources to identify gaps
  
• Engendering the Millennium Development Goals
  (MDGs) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
  (PRSP)
  
• Finding effective ways of sharing and upscaling
  experiences to other countries
  
• Using gender statistics to advocate for gender
  sensitive macro-economic policies and other
  development programs
  

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• CONCLUSION

• Gender statistics enable to track all forms of
  inequality between men and women
  
• Need gender statistics for economic and social
  policy formulation, implementation and
  monitoring
  
• Advocacy for gender statistics helps in making
  gender visible in statistics
  
• UNIFEM has conducted many advocacy activities
  aimed at promoting the production of gender
  statistics
  
• Still, many challenges remain

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