Addendum to the P

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African Experiences on Capacity Building for the
Production and Use of Gender Statistics
Global Forum on Gender Statistics 26-28 January
2009 Accra, Ghana
Dimitri Sanga, Ph.D. Senior Statistician
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Content

• The Need for Gender Statistics
• Selected individual Organizations Efforts
• Coordinated Efforts at the Regional Level
• Recommendations at the Regional Level
• Where are We?
• What Remains to be Done?
• The Way Forward
• Conclusions

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The Need for Gender Statistics

• Increasing recognition that
• better statistics are important for
  evidence-based policy formulation and
  decision-making
• Women, men face different socioeconomic realities
• Partially reflected in development frameworks and
  initiatives MDGs, PRSPs, NEPAD...
• But....declarations, commitments Beijing
  Platform of Action, CEDAW, Gender component of
  NEPAD, AU Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality
  etc.
• Need to provide users with relevant statistics to
  address gender issues

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Individual Organizations Efforts

• Engendering Population and Housing Censuses
• Gender Statistics Network
• Time Use Surveys
• Civil and Vital Registration Systems
• The African Gender and Development Index
• Engendering the MDGs
• African Womens Rights Observatory

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Coordinated Efforts at the Regional Level

• Building on the momentum offered by Global Forum
  and IAEG on gender statistics
• Creation of the StatCom-Africa WG on gender
  statistics
• High Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) on Gender
  Statistics for Socio-economic Development
  Development (Kampala, June 2008) ECA, AfDB,
  InWent, UBOS
• Regional Workshop on Gender Statistics (Addis
  Ababa, December 2008) ECA, AfDB, InWent, UBOS,
  PARIS21

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Recommendations at the Regional Level

• Setting up a StatCom-Africa WG on gender
  statistics
• Setting up a GESNET
• Setting up a City Group on gender statistics
• Develop and implement an African Gender
  Statistics Programme (AGSPRO)
• Training
• Awareness creation
• Networking GESNET
• Engendering statistics in NSOs
• Engendering censuses, surveys and administrative
  record system
• Research

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Recommendations at the Regional Level (Contd)

• Development of country gender statistics
  strategies drawn from the AGSPRO
• Develop and implement an African Gender
  Statistics System (AGSYS)
• Conceptual framework
• Methodological framework
• Reference gender classifications
• Gender indicators
• Gender units in NSOs
• Develop an African Gender Handbook for Censuses
  and Surveys expanding the work on the PR on PHC

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Where are We?

• StatCom-Africa WG set up
• GESNET set up
• African Gender Handbook for Censuses and Surveys
  ongoing
• Kampala Group set up

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What Remains to be Done?

• Develop and implement the AGSPRO
• Develop the AGSYS
• Operationalize the Kampala Group
• Operationalize the GESNET
• Finalize the African Gender Handbook for Censuses
  and Surveys

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The Way Forward

• Operationalize the GESNET
• January 2009
• Discussion to feed the preparations of the AGSYS,
  the AGSPRO, and the national strategies
• Operationalize the Kampala Group June 2009
• African Gender Handbook for Censuses and Surveys
• Ongoing work
• Expert group meeting third quarter 2009
• Develop the AGSYS December 2009
• Develop and implement the AGSPRO 2010
  StatCom-Africa

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Conclusions

• Gender not only a moral issue but also a
  development one
• Ongoing efforts to support African NSSs build
  their capacity in gender statistics
• Momentum at the global level
• Commitments, conventions by countries
• 3rd ASSD, first StatCom-Africa
• HLPD on gender statistics
• Regional Workshop on Gender Statistics
• Concerted efforts AfDB, ECA, InWent, PARIS21,
  Countries
• ACS to recruit a gender statistics specialist
• Join ongoing fora to move the agenda forward

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