Africa Programme on Gender Statistics

Status of implementation

United Economic Commission for Africa

Meeting of Committee of Directors General26-27 November 2015

Libreville

•Approved by the Statistical Commission in its Third Session

•Africa Group on Gender Statistics (AGeGS) coordinating the implementation of the Programme

•The Group is led by Ghana, includes a number of member states, AUC, AfDB, OECD, Statistical Training Centres, RECs, UN agencies, ECA (Secretariat)

•Includes a number of activities to be undertaken by various institutions on their own or in partnership of other organizations

Africa Programme on Gender Statistics(2012-2016)

Key achievements

•Assessment of Gender Statistics Programme in Africa

•Celebration of African Statistics Day (18th November) with the theme on gender statistics “Making every woman and man count: engendering statistics for better development outcomes”

•Development of manuals and handbooks

•Training toolkit on gender statistics

•Methodological research on gender statistics

Key challenges

•No mechanism/platform for sharing information by members on regular basis

•Most of activities undertaken independently –likely duplication of efforts

•Only two meetings of AGeGS held since 2012

•No dearth of materials but lack of systematic strategy in mainstreaming them in the region

•Lack of strategy in translating the regional work into country gender statistics programme

Next steps

•Develop a platform/mechanism to enable sharing of key activities

•Share annual workplan for a more coordinated approach

•Align the APGS to the new demands emanating from on gender related indicators in SDGs and minimum set of gender indicators

•Identify training institutions that will support training on gender statistics

•Develop a pool of experts in the region on gender statistics

GENDER STATISTICS ON-LINE TRAINING TOOLKIT

Background and objectives

BACKGROUND

Limited progress on gender statistics in Africa Difficulties in training experts despite several initiatives in supporting

building capacity of countries to produce gender statistics, including developing manuals and handbooks

Development of a training toolkit on gender statistics 2013 combining knowledge and guidance from existing handbooks with special references to African context

Need to convert the toolkit to an online version, which will be easily and widely accessible to various group of users and available for self-learning

Improve knowledge of producing and using gender statistics

Systematize and scale up the delivery of training in gender statistics across the continent

Increase learning opportunities in the area of gender statistics, especially self-learning, not requiring organizing expensive workshops

Objectives

Producers of official statistics at all levels: NSOs

Line ministries, departments and agencies

Provincial/district offices responsible for compiling statistics for dissemination and their use for programming and designing policy interventions

Users of statistics: Planners

Monitoring and evaluation officials

Civil society organizations

Gender activists

Trainers of statistical institutes and training centers

Target audience

MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO GENDER STATISTICS

Module 1• Describe the importance of gender statistics and its

global and African context

• Provide examples of how gender statistics can inform national policy and legislation

• Define key gender terms and the minimum set of gender indicators

Structure of the courseModule 2

• Identify gender issues • Describe the steps to initiate an engendered

statistical data gathering initiative• Explain the importance of a producer-user dialogue• Conduct a gender-sensitive needs analysis• Identify gaps in existing sources, and• Communicate the need for new data collection

Module 3A and 3B• Identify ways to integrate gender perspective into the

data production process• Identify key gender issues and gender-biased language

in surveys and censuses• Provide feedback to your own office on how to bring a

gender perspective to their statistical activities.

Module 4• Describe a few ways to disseminate gender statistics

and explain how they address needs of different audiences

• Explain how to prepare reader-friendly tables highlighting meaningful differences and similarities between women and men

• Determine which charts are best suited to illustrate different types of data

• Make policy recommendations based on analysis of data