InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 1 Session VI: Capacity Building in Gender Statistics 5. Development of Gender Statistics training modules for sub-Saharan Africa InWEnt Gender Statistics Workshop Addis Ababa, December 2008

InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 2 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

InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 3 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)

InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 4 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

InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 5 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

InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 6 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

InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 7 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.

InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 8 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

InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 9 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

InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 10 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 An introduction to gender statistics: Why Gender Statistics/What is Gender Statistics and gender analysis? How to get it off the ground 2.Gender and MDGs 3.Womens contribution to GDP 4.Gender and work – time use surveys 5.Health and HIV/AIDS

InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 11 Concrete steps – forward (3) Training Other topics might follow later such as: Access to assets Dissemination/publication/public relations Etc.

InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 12 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 !

InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 13 InWEnt is grateful for any idea or contribution to its proposals The floor is now to the audience…

InWEnt | Qualified to shape the future 14 Thank you for your attention