1. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 1 Engendering the Statistical System in Cambodia Workshop Day 1 21-23 May 2003 Funded by UNDP-PGE and UN-ESCAP Organized by UNDP-PGE and UNIFEM

2. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 2 UN Resource Team  UNIFEM – Lorraine Corner  UNDP-PGE – Elaine McKay  UNIFEM Facilitator – Teena Cabbab  UN-ESCAP Statistics – Chol O Han  UNIFEM MDG Consultant Mia Hyun

3. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 3 Cambodian Resource Team  Ms Sok Chan Chhorvy, Deputy General Director for Technical Affairs, MOWVA  Ms Ky Boreth, Vice Bureau Chief, NIS  Mr Suviddya Hang, Economist, Deputy Director, Planning Dept & Deputy National Technical Director PMATU  Mr Phoumin Han, National Professional, PMATU  Ms Rathmony Meas, Vice Bureau Chief, Economic Statistics Department, NIS  Ms Choy Kim Sor, Director, Planning & Statistics Dept, MOWVA  Ms Kok Kanika, Gender Assistant & Interpreter, Partnership for Gender Equity, MOWVA

4. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 4 What are we doing?  Reviewing concept & role of gender in statistics  Understanding  Gender  Gender in statistics  Gender & statistics for the MDGs  Moving toward engendering the national statistical system as a whole

5. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 5 Who are we?  Staff from NIS – as producers of statistics  Staff from the Sectors – as producers to help engender administrative and sectoral statistics and as users of statistics  Staff from Ministry of Women’s and Veteran’s Affairs – users of statistics  NGOs – users of statistics  UN Together – we can engender the statistical system

6. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 6 We are challenging assumptions  Engendering statistics needs more than sex-disaggregated statistics  Cambodian statistical system is more than NIS  Some important gender issues are hidden by the statistical system  MDGs need to be engendered  Gender-blind data can be used to engender MDG targets & indicators

7. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 7 What happens next?  Gender-responsive monitoring of national MDGs & NPRS  Engendering data collection processes & methods  Socio-Economic Survey  Using existing statistics for Gender- Responsive policy advocacy  Disseminating statistics to new users

8. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 8 Teena - Some Administration

9. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 9 Administrative Matters  Schedule  Meals  Breaks  Handouts  Roles

10. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 10 Expectations

11. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 11 What do you want to know about  Gender?  Gender & Statistics?  Gender, Statistics & MDGs?

12. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 12 Instructions – Expectations Meta cards Part 1 1.Individually write 1 or 2 ideas per topic 2.Write only 1 idea per card

13. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 13 1.Use meta cards 2.Write only key words 3.Use upper case 4.Letters should be 5 cm high 5.Tape on flip charts 6.Sort the responses as you tape

14. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 14 What do you want to know about  Gender?  Gender & Statistics?  Gender, Statistics & MDGs?

15. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 15 Instructions – Expectations Wall flip chart - Expectations Part 2 1.Form groups 2.Present your ideas to the group 3.Agree on the 3 most important ideas per topic. 4.Post them on the common flip chart on the wall 5.Give the other cards to co-facilitators 6.Each group presents one idea to plenary

16. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 16 Plenary Report Back

17. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 17 Synthesis Teena

18. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 18 Norms

19. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 19 Instructions – Norms Meta cards Part 1 Use 3 meta cards to answer these 3 questions: 1.What can we all do effectively use the time gap between translations? 2.How should we behave so that we practice being gender sensitive? 3.What can be done in the next 3 days to make the workshop worthwhile for you?

20. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 20 Instructions – Norms Wall flip chart - Norms Part 2 1.Form groups 2.Present your ideas to the group 3.Agree on the most important idea per topic. 4.Post them on the common flip chart on the wall 5.Give the other cards to co-facilitators 6.Each group presents its idea to plenary

21. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 21 Plenary Report Back

22. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 22 Synthesis Teena

23. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 23 Norms suggested by facilitators  Everyone in the room is a resource for learning  Facilitators  Co-facilitators  Participants  When presenting, avoid repeating what has already been said  You can say:  “We have nothing new to add”  “All we wanted to say has been presented”  Group Meta cards translated into English by:  A group member or  Ask a co-facilitator

24. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 24 Norms suggested by facilitators The only silly question is one that is not asked

25. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 25 Lecture Teena

26. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 26 Engendering the Statistical System in Cambodia Paradigm Shifts

27. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 27 What is a paradigm?  Your assumptions  The way you see the world

28. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 28 Paradigm shift A Change way of seeing the world A Change to a more complete & useful way of seeing the world

29. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 29 A new way of seeing changes in Accompanied by changes in:  Attitude  Behaviour

30. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 30 EFFORT AND ATTITUDE DON’T MEAN MUCH IF YOUR PARADIGMS ARE WRONG

31. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 31 Activity Discuss What lessons were learned? How do we apply it? 1 2 3 4

32. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 32 Structured Learning Exercise Teena

33. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 33 Structured Learning Exercise Facilitated by Teena  Everyone stand in the middle of the room  Observe the activity presented  Would you associate the activity with a person who is male or female?  If it is associated with a male, move left  If it is associated with a female, move right ?

34. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 34 Lecture Lorraine

35. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 35 Engendering the Statistical System in Cambodia Sex and Gender: What is the difference?

36. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 36 Concept of sex  Female/male  Biological  Fixed at birth - does not change

37. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 37 Concept of gender  Feminine/Masculine  Social and cultural  Not fixed - changes over time  Varies between societies

38. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 38 Opinion Survey on Women in Cambodia Survey Form  Fill out the Opinion Survey  Do women and men equally enjoy the rights listed on the form Example Example: 1. To good and quality education

39. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 39 MEN more than WOMEN > M en W omen

40. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 40 WOMEN more than MEN < M en W omen

41. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 41 WOMEN and MEN equally = M W

42. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 42 Group work Teena

43. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 43 womengender equality What is the situation of women & gender equality in Cambodia?

44. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 44 Small Group Discussion Flip chart - Opinion Survey  Form five groups  In groups, agree on one answer to each question & score on flip chart  Based on group answers, discuss women & gender equality in Cambodia  Discuss for 20 minutes  Write 4 main bullet points for group in English & Khmer on Meta cards during discussion  Each group reports their most important bullet point

45. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 45 Plenary Report Back

46. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 46 Synthesis Teena

47. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 47 Lecture Lorraine

48. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 48 Engendering the Statistical System in Cambodia MDGs: an introduction Handout

49. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 49 MDG 3. Promote gender equality and empower women  Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and to all levels of education no later than 2015.  Indicators 1.Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary & tertiary education 2.Ratio of literate females to males among 15-24 year olds 3.Share of women in wage employment in non-agriculture 4.% of seats held by women in parliament

50. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 50 MDG 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger  Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day. 1.% of population <$1 per day (PPP values) 2.Poverty gap ratio (incidence & depth of poverty) 3.Share of poorest quintile in national consumption  Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. 4.Prevalence of underweight children under age 5 5.% of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption

51. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 51 MDG 2. Achieve universal primary education  Ensure that, by 2015, all children, both girls and boys, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling 1. Net enrolment ratio in primary education 2.% of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5 3.Literacy rate of 15-24 year olds

52. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 52 MDG 4. Reduce child mortality  Reduce by two-thirds (2/3), between 1990 and 2015, the under-5 mortality rate 1. Under-five mortality rate 2.Infant mortality rate 3.% of 1 year old children immunized against measles

53. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 53 MDG 5. Improve maternal health  Reduce by three-quarters (3/4), between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality rate 1. Maternal mortality ratio 2.% of births attended by skilled health personnel

54. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 54 MDG 6. Combat malaria, HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases  Have halted by 2015, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS 1.HIV prevalence among 15-24 year old pregnant women 2.Contraceptive prevalence rate 3.No. of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS  Have halted by 2015, and begun to reverse, the incidence of malaria and other major diseases 4.Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria 5.Proportion of population in malaria risk areas using effective malaria prevention and treatment measure 6.Prevalence and death rates associated with Tuberculosis 7.Proportion of TB cases detected and cured under DOTS

55. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 55 MDG 7. Ensure environmental sustainability  Integrate the principles of sustainable development into policies & programmes & reverse loss of resources 1.% of land area covered by forest 2.Land area protected to maintain biological diversity 3.GDP per unit of energy use (proxy for energy efficiency) 4.CO2 emissions per head of population  Halve, by 2015, proportion of population without sustainable access to safe drinking water 5.% of population with sustainable access to an improved water source  By 2020, have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers 6.% of population with access to improved sanitation 7.% of people with access to secure tenure

56. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 56  MDGs do not show the differences between women & men revealed by your survey & analysis of the situation of women in Cambodia

57. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 57 How do we show differences between women and men?

58. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 58 Lecture Lorraine

59. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 59 Engendering the Statistical System in Cambodia Individual data should be disaggregated by sex

60. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 60 Sex IS a statistical variable  Survey questionnaire:  What is the sex of the respondent?  Categories: Female Male

61. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 61 Gender is NOT a statistical variable  It refers to changeable characteristics or roles of persons  Male persons can have feminine AND masculine characteristics (at the same time  Female persons can have masculine AND feminine characteristics (at the same time)

62. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 62 Group work Teena - MDGs Handout

63. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 63 Making the MDGs sex-disaggregated MDG Posters

64. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 64 Small Group Discussion 2  Form five groups  In groups, review MDG targets & indicators for given sector/s  On sheet provided, show how they could be disaggregated by sex [20 minutes]  Choose reporter to present ONE of group’s suggested changes to plenary  Post group’s sheet in poster area for relevant MDG

65. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 65 Plenary Report Back

66. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 66 Synthesis Lorraine

67. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 67 Lecture Lorraine

68. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 68 Engendering the Statistical System in Cambodia Gender-responsive presentation of Statistics

69. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 69 Gender-responsive presentation shows  Comparisons of Women and Men primary & overall  Sex as a primary & overall classification ie. ALL variables are: –presented –presented by sex –analysed –analysed by sex

70. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 70 Present Women First!  Show women first in tables, charts & graphs  Why? – to challenge gender stereotypes  men are not the standard  equality does not mean women have to be the same as men

71. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 71 Do we want equality here?

72. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 72 Men are not the standard So put women first

73. The United Nations Development Fund for Women 73 Thank you