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

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

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

5. Using SDG5 as a framework of analysis of gender issues

6. WHAT DO THE STATISTICS TELL US?

7. 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

8. 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

9. Economic opportunities: productive employment

10. Economic opportunities: productive employment

11. Economic opportunities: productive employment

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

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

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

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

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

17. EDUCATION AND HEALTH

18. 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

19. 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

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