Africa Programme on Gender Statistics Status of implementation United Economic Commission for Africa Meeting of Committee of Directors General 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 ( )

Key achievements Assessment of Gender Statistics Programme in Africa Celebration of African Statistics Day (18 th 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 course Module 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