Study on Statistical Training in International Cooperation

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Session VI Capacity Building in Gender
Statistics 5. Development of Gender Statistics
training modules for sub-Saharan
Africa InWEnt Gender Statistics Workshop Addis
Ababa, 15-16 December 2008
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• InWEnt Statistics training fields
• InWEnt develops and provides statistics training
  for partner countries in different thematic
  development policy relevant fields
• On Measuring Democracy, Governance and Human
  Rights
• Statistical Indicators for Environment Policy in
  Africa
• System of National Accounts
• On Measuring HIV/AIDS and its socio-economic
  impacts
• Measuring progress Statistics for MDG
  indicators
• Public Relations and statistics Building
  Bridges between users and producers
• NEW Gender Statistics - a crosscutting issue

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• InWEnt Statistics training formats
• InWEnt develops and provides statistics training
  for partner countries in different formats
• Short term classroom courses in Germany or in
  partner countries
• E-learning/online courses on the InWEnt Global
  Campus 21 platform
• Blended learning courses combining
  e-learning/online courses with classroom sessions
  in Germany or partner countries
• NEW Engendering statistics training and
  Add-on modules (eg integrate a gender
  statistics or a HIV/AIDS module into another
  course)

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• InWEnt Transfer of knowledge
• To provide up-to-date, highly practice oriented
  state-of-the-art training InWEnt collaborates
  with development policy and statistical
  information system key specialists from the North
  and from the South, from international, regional,
  national organisations and the private market
  plus its own internal resources
• The organisation of courses in partner countries
  is as a rule organised in collaboration with
  partner institutions in the countries natural
  partnerships with training institutions

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• InWEnt Transfer of knowledge (2)
• Peer learning is one of the recent concepts
  applied in e-learning and classroom courses
• Courses are conceived in a way to allow final
  use by partner institutions
• Design courses in a way to allow multiplication
  through train the trainers schemes more at
  regional levels towards national applications

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• Gender Statistics Training for African
  Statistical Systems
• Considering the economic and social relevance of
  gender equity for development
• referring to the identification of data gaps to
  construct indicators for monitoring gender equity
  policies
• and convinced of the fact that engendering
  public statistics is a question of development of
  the performance of public statistical systems
• InWEnt has put focus on contributing to the
  development of gender statistics in Africa and
  particularly Gender Statistics training

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• Gender statistics training for African
  Statistical Systems (2)
• NSDS need to be THE reference framework for the
  development of GS including training - a
  prerequisite of succes
• The topic was intensely discussed with AfDB and
  discussions led to a common initiative to develop
  and provide GS training in Africa
• An approach that shall go further the
  development of individual training courses or
  modules - take account of the needs of the
  African Statistical Systems in a more strategic
  and conceptual way - coherence with the strategic
  plans - ideally the NSIs are the driving forces.
  STCs etc. integral part of the concept. Ideally
  concertation with all actors involved.

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• Gender statistics training for African
  Statistical Systems (3)
• Three options for course development retained (to
  be discussed)
• The following three options seem to cope with
  the actual specialist discussion and the
  situation/needs of African Statistical Systems
• Thematic approach
• Datasources or statistical operations approach
• Mixt of both

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• Concrete steps - forward
• More general
• Clear committment from InWEnt to contribute to
  the devlopment of Gender Statistics in Africa
  mainly in terms of training
• InWEnt to continue to support the development of
  Gender Statistics in Africa in actively
  contributing to provide opportunity for exchange
  and collaboration between all actors concerned
  within the given institutional frameworks

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• Concrete steps forward (2)
• Training
• As a first step develop an e-learning training
  course composed by 5 thematic topics ready for
  second half of 2009
• An introduction to gender statistics Why Gender
  Statistics/What is Gender Statistics and gender
  analysis? How to get it off the ground
• Gender and MDGs
• Womens contribution to GDP
• Gender and work time use surveys
• Health and HIV/AIDS

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• Concrete steps forward (3)
• Training
• Other topics might follow later such as
• Access to assets
• Dissemination/publication/public relations
• Etc.

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Concrete steps forward (4) Training The second
step might be the development of the one or the
other course considering options 2 (datasources
approach eg. Household surveys) and 3 (mixed
appraoch eg. employment or MDGs) - Depending on
the identification of needs !
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InWEnt is grateful for any idea or
contribution to its proposalsThe floor is now
to the audience
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Thank you for your attention