1. Rachid Bouhia Bouhia@un.org
Global review of Gender Statistics Programmes Session 1: develop a coherent and comprehensive plan for the production of gender statistics
Rachid Bouhia

2. Survey of National Gender Statistics Programmes and Activities
Requested by the 2011 session of the United Nations Statistical Commission
Questionnaire jointly developed by the UN Statistics Division (UNSD), the UN Regional Commissions (UNRCs) and the Inter-agency and expert group on gender statistics (IAEG)
Two-staged: UNRCs carried out the review at the regional level / International compilation by UNSD
126 countries including 33 African countries
126 countries at least partially

3. Objectives of the survey
Conduct a review of gender statistics in national statistical systems
Obtain information on how gender perspectives are mainstreamed
Identify good practices and challenges to integrating gender into the production and use of statistics

4. 5 main topics Institutional arrangements
Production (including data collection) of gender statistics
Addressing users’ needs
Assessment of mainstreaming gender into national statistical system
Legal framework
Part I. Institutional arrangements
Organizational structure for mainstreaming a gender perspective in statistics in the National Statistics Office (NSO) in the national statistical system, and in cases where there is no NSO, the body or coordinating body for statistics that reports to the Chief Statistician.
Part 2. Production (including data collection) of gender statistics

5. 5 main topics
Presentation of selectedresults with respect to our workshop
4) Assessment of mainstreaming gender into national statistical system
1) Institutional arrangements
2) Production (including data collection) of gender statistics
3) Addressing users’ needs
5) Legal framework
Global results with a focus on African countries (UNECA)
Part I. Institutional arrangements
Organizational structure for mainstreaming a gender perspective in statistics in the National Statistics Office (NSO) in the national statistical system, and in cases where there is no NSO, the body or coordinating body for statistics that reports to the Chief Statistician.
Part 2. Production (including data collection) of gender statistics

6. Assessment of mainstreaming gender into national statistical system

7. Institutional arrangements 1/3 Gender Statistics Entities

8. Institutional arrangements 2/3 Main tasks covered

9. Institutional arrangements 3/3 Budgets

10. Production of Gender Statistics 1/2

11. Production of Gender Statistics 1/2
Areas relatively well covered by ECA region and all countries

12. Production of Gender Statistics 1/2
Areas relatively badly covered by ECA region and all countries simultaneously

13. Production of Gender Statistics 1/2
Areas relatively badly covered by ECA region but well covered by all countries

14. Production of Gender Statistics 2/2

15. Some brief conclusions
Global recognition of the importance of Gender Statistics as perceived through the dedicated entities and relatively, the allocated budget
Some tasks and some areas are well-covered
However, progress still needs to be made:
To fully achieve the general objective of mainstreaming gender
To cover the whole scope of gender statistics in terms of areas and methodologies
To adequately and fully use pre-existing statistical sources

16. Many thanks for your attention and your questions