SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS - KEYNOTE ADDRESS/ SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS - - WHAT AVAILABLE GENDER STATISTICS TELL US AND WHAT THEY DON’T TELL US?

MAIN DEVELOPMENT LANDSCAPE – AGENDA 2030 (Agenda 2063 taken into account in Agenda 2030)

Key global and regional development agendas CEDAW 1979 Beijing 1995 MDGs 2000 SDGs 2015 Agenda 2063

Using SDG5 as a framework of analysis of gender issues

WHAT DO THE STATISTICS TELL US?

No gender statistics on many critical gender issues World Bank ‘s assessment: regular production of gender statistics on maternal mortality, labor participation and training by close to 80% of countries Less than one third of countries disaggregate statistics by sex on: (i) Informal employment; (ii) Entrepreneurship, especially ownership and management of a firm or business; and; (iii) Unpaid care work and violence against women = important policy issue with many policy implications

Trends in status of Female Employment (%) Economic opportunities: productive employment Trends in status of Female Employment (%) What these gender statistics did not capture is the new definition

Economic opportunities: productive employment

Economic opportunities: productive employment

Economic opportunities: productive employment

Workplace Rights with Gender Equality Principle Data Source: Women, Business and the Law (2016). World Bank

ACCESS TO AND CONTROL OVER RESOURCES – A KEY IMPEDIMENT TO WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Access to Resources: Inheritance and Property Ownership Rights Data Source: Women, Business and the Law (2016). World Bank

UNPAID CARE WORK – DO THE STATISTICS TELL US AND THEY DON’T TELL US?

Proportion of African households with access to safe electricity (Source: The African Energy Outlook, Special Report in the World Energy Outlook, 2014) S

EDUCATION AND HEALTH

Education Important strides registered especially Africa registered important progress in primary education level which increased from 86 percent in 1990 to 96% in 2013, equivalent to a 10 point increase. Sub-regional variations: West Africa registered the best performance, 18 percent increase whereas Central Africa lacked behind with only 4 percent increase. Similarly in secondary education: Africa’s performance increased from 71 percent in 1990 to 90 per cent in 2013./2014 (most recent accurate data) Important efforts but Africa as a whole did not meet the target of “eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015. Achieving gender equality in tertiary education remains a challenge. STEMs: only 12% of girls and women graduated Note from aicha: quite a lot of writing on this slide

What gender statistics do not tell us? Do not capture causal factors such as cultural and social norms that give priority and importance to boys’ and men’s education; Do not capture lack of infrastructures such separate toilets for girls/women and boys/men Early marriage; women’s and men’s stories an narratives not captured

Slow pace ---Reduction of maternal mortality Source: MDGs to SDGs Transition Report: Towards and Integrated and Coherent Approach to Sustainable Development in Africa