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Francesca Grum, Chief Social and Housing Statistics Section - UNSD

Global Gender Statistics Programme EDGE project and Measuring Asset Ownership and Control at the individual level. Francesca Grum, Chief Social and Housing Statistics Section - UNSD. Outline. Global Gender Statistics Programme Overview Main areas of work EDGE project. Overview.

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Francesca Grum, Chief Social and Housing Statistics Section - UNSD

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  1. Global Gender Statistics ProgrammeEDGE project andMeasuring Asset Ownership and Control at the individual level Francesca Grum, Chief Social and Housing Statistics Section - UNSD

  2. Outline • Global Gender Statistics Programme • Overview • Main areas of work • EDGE project

  3. Overview Coordinated by Goal: To enhance the capacity of countries to collect, disseminate and use reliable statistics and indicators to assess the relative situation of women and men in gender-sensitive, policy-relevant areas IAEG-GS Implemented by Since 2007 secretariat UNSD Global Gender Statistics Programme Mandated by UN Stat Commission

  4. Programme areas and objectives • International Coordination • Objective: Improve global coherence • Methods • Objective: Promote methodological developments • Capacity-Building • Objective: Build technical capacity • Data Management & Dissemination • Objective: Improve access to data and materials

  5. 1. International Coordination • Improving coordination and synergies among existing initiatives on gender statistics Global Forums IAEG-GS 1st Rome, Dec 2007 2nd Accra, Jan 2009 -Since 2007 (6 meetings so far) -International, regional and national agencies -Annual meetings, 7th meeting in 2013 -UNSD secretariat -Chair: Jordan/Mexico 4th Dead Sea, Mar 2012 3rd Manila, Oct 2010

  6. 2. Methods/ 3. Capacity-Building • Promoting methodological development and strengthening capacity including in emerging areas of gender concern • Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics • New Manual (available online on UNSD Wikiplatform) • Violence against Women • UN Guidelines for the Production of Statistics on Violence Against Women, 2013 • Time Use • International Classification of Activities for Time Use Statistics-ICATUS

  7. 4. Data Management & Dissemination • Data/metadata platform • Minimum set of Gender Indicators • Agreed by IAEG-GS in 2011 and by UN Stat Commission in 2013 • Continuation of the World’s Women series • - Analysis of trends in key areas, review of data availability

  8. 4. Minimum set of Gender Indicators • Agreed by UN Stat Commission in 2013 • Indicators grouped into 3 tiers: • Tier 1 (data available + agreed int’l definition)Started international compilation of indicators • Tier 2 (some data available + agreed int’l definition) Promoting capacity building activities IAEG-advisory group on emerging issues • Tier 3 (no data + no agreed int’l definition)  Methodological development for indicators EDGE project

  9. Recent activities EDGE project – Evidence and Data for Gender Equality

  10. EDGE Project A 3-year initiative Overall objective: Improving the integration of gender issues into the regular production of official statistics for better evidence-based policies Specific objectives: Compiling at the international level selected Tier 1 indicators: Having comparable gender indicators on health, education and employment Undertake methodological work on Tier 3 indicators: Developing methods/guidelines to collect entrepreneurship and assets data, and piloting them in selected countries

  11. EDGE Results Results of pilot testing in selected countries 1 International platform for compiling and disseminating data and metadata on health, education and employment; Health Education Employment 2 Methodological report on standards for collection of comparable gender indicators related to entrepreneurship and asset ownership; 3

  12. Visit us at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/default.html

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