Transcript Improving Gender Statistics: A World Bank Plan of Action

Improving Gender Statistics:
A World Bank Plan of Action
Sulekha Patel
Senior Demographer
Development Data Group
The World Bank
September 11, 2007
Presentation Outline
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Background to the Gender Action Plan
Rationale for choice of focus areas
Priority gender issues in the Gender Action Plan
Gender statistics strategy to support the Gender
Action Plan
Capacity-building efforts to improve availability and
use of sex-disaggregated data
Background
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Countries falling behind in their commitment to
meet MDG3
Gender mainstreaming is a sound policy, but it
should be more operationally relevant and focused
on results
More, and better gender statistics are needed to
improve analytical work and identify good practices
in promoting women’s economic empowerment
For the World Bank, assigning priority to work in the
economic sectors would give gender issues more
traction
Rationale
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Gross enrolm ent ratios, Arab States, 2005
80
Percentage
Gains in women’s
economic opportunities lag
behind those in women’s
capabilities.
Increased female labour
force participation and
earnings associated with
faster growth.
Women, and society, will
benefit from their
economic empowerment.
60
Secondary
40
Tertiary
20
0
Male
Female
Source: UIS
Fem ales in non-agricultural w age
em ploym ent, 2005
Percentage
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50
40
30
20
10
0
1990
2005
Western Asia
Source: UN
LAC
Overall objectives of
Gender Action Plan
Promote women’s economic advancement through
interventions at:
Policy level
Agency level
Make markets
work for women
Empower women to
compete in markets
Gender Action Plan
Framework
Policy Level
Agency Level
Product Markets
Include female-owned
businesses and farms in
supply chains
Form women’s business,
purchasing, and transport
associations
Financial Markets
Offer commercial credit
lines and financial
services for women
Support self-help groups and
savings associations
Land Markets
Promote joint titling to
land to enable women to
access loans
Ensure women’s participation
in land adjudication and
registration processes
Labor Markets
Certify good gender
practices in firms
Provide labor intermediation
services to young women
Infrastructure Increases Access to all 4 Markets
Gender Action Plan
Regional priorities:
Middle East and North Africa
Female Labour Force Participation (% of total
labour force)
East Asia & Pacific
Percent
80
Europe and Central
Asia
60
Latin America &
Carib
40
Middle East & N.
Africa
20
0
South Asia
1990
2005
Source: ILO
Sub-Saharan Africa
Gender Action Plan
Regional priorities:
Middle East and North Africa
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Operational and analytical work to advance region’s
ongoing efforts to provide women access to public
resources, jobs and benefits, and assets
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Gender and infrastructure, especially as it relates to
women’s time use
Linkages between formal and informal labour markets
Work on investment climate assessments and women’s
role in the private sector
Gender Action Plan
Four Action Areas
Action 1
Engender
Operations &
Technical
Assistance in
Economic Sectors
Action 2
Implement
Results-Based
Initiatives (RBIs)
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Core Objective
Empower women to
compete in:
•Product markets
•Financial markets
•Land markets
•Labor markets
Action 3
Improve
Research &
Statistics
. Action 4:
Undertake a
Targeted
Communications
Campaign
Gender Action Plan
Action 3
Improve Research and Statistics
Action
Improve knowledge and statistics on women’s economic
participation and the relationship between gender
equality, growth, and poverty reduction.
Performance indicators include:
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Increased number of sex-disaggregated impact
evaluations of Bank interventions.
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Greater understanding of the gender-differentiated effects
of policy reforms.
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Greater understanding of the determinants of women’s
economic empowerment.
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Increased in-country capacity to collect and analyze sexdisaggregated statistics, and improved quality and
availability of sex-disaggregated labor force and
employment data.
Gender Action Plan
Gender Statistics Strategy:
Support for Gender Action Plan
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Proposes actions in three areas:
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Improve availability of gender indicators, based on mining
data from surveys, initially working with target countries
Identify new indicators/gaps and establish strategies to
collect data to support monitoring progress in the four key
markets identified by GAP
Build national capacity to provide relevant data to make
gender analysis an integral part of countries’ results-based
agendas
Gender Statistics Strategy
Modalities of operation
Two main strategies:
 Collaboration:
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Work with international agencies and academic and
research institutions
Develop synergies with existing national and international
programs in areas of mutual interest
Bank commitments:
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Support for the MAPS through the Development Grant
Facility and Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building
Raise profile of gender statistics through the Data Quality
Assessment Frameworks and the General Data
Dissemination System for social statistics
Develop training for Bank staff to integrate gender
dimensions in economic and sector work
Disseminate data and statistics through the World
Development Indicators
Gender Statistics Strategy
Strategy for gender statistics:
Improve data availability
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Data mining of LSMS and other surveys in
the Bank’s database:
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Identify and fill gaps in coverage of data needed
for monitoring progress of GAP
Identify new areas and indicators to monitor for
gender equality
Make recommendations for filling gaps:
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Develop survey modules and model questions
for surveys
Examine other sources of data and experiences
with data collection and reporting
Gender Statistics Strategy
Strategy for gender statistics:
Identify new indicators/fill gaps
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Establish partnerships with UN agencies,
programmes, funds, and researchers to identify
appropriate indicators, methodologies, and data
collection modalities
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Launched a multi-year research and data collection
exercise to increase availability of individual asset
ownership
Gender Statistics Strategy
Asset Ownership and Control
 Assets serve two main functions:
as social safety net — strengthen households’ ability to
cope with aggregate shocks (financial crises, natural
disasters) and idiosyncratic shocks (divorce, illness,
or death).
as an income generating mechanism —providing
productive capacity, ensuring access to credit, capital,
etc.
 Most data on assets are collected only at the
household level – leading to an incomplete or
partial understanding of individual-level ownership
patterns
Gender Statistics Strategy
Individual Assets: Data collection
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Two modalities have been proposed:
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A self-standing questionnaire to collect household and
individual level data on:
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Land, housing
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Businesses
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Other financial assets, including debt
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Livestock
Integrating with existing questionnaires, such as
the LSMS survey instruments
Gender Statistics Strategy
Strategy for gender statistics:
Build national capacity
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Collaborate with other agencies:
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To improve data collection
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With the ILO to collect and use sex-disaggregated
employment data in partnership—executed by UNECE and
UNSD (2008-2009)
To sensitize statisticians in national statistics offices
to engender statistics
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With UNECE and ECLAC to improve collection, use, and
reporting of gender statistics (under way) – to be replicated
in other regions
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Three-year project on Gender Sensitization Training, 20072009 (funded by the DGF under the Marrakesh Action Plan for
Statistics (MAPS)
Gender Statistics Strategy
Capacity Building
Gender Sensitization Programme:
Instruments
Development of
a Consolidated
Training Manual
Provide a
structured
resource
for trainers
Regional Training
of Trainers
National follow-up
Workshops
(by local trainers)
Community of
Practice
Web Portal
Have trainers
experience the
Interactive
learning design
and
build confidence
and trust
Organize largerscale dissemination
of information to
build awareness
and
ultimately effect
policy decision
making
Support trainers
in the preparation
of national
trainings, foster
peer-to-peer
learning and create
a sustainable
community of
experts in the region
Gender Statistics Strategy
Capacity Building
Strategy for gender statistics:
Build National Capacity
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Work with existing programs to add gender
indicators to household surveys and co-ordinate
survey activities:
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International Household Survey Network,
Accelerated Data Program for Sub-Saharan Africa
Pilot new modules in Core Welfare Indicators
Questionnaire
Under umbrella of MAPS, work with PARIS 21 to
engender National Strategies for the Development
of Statistics
Gender Statistics Strategy
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Djibouti
Egypt, Arab Rep.
Iran, Islamic Rep.
Iraq
Jordan
Lebanon
Libya
Morocco
Syrian Arab Rep.
Tunisia
Yemen, Rep.
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Gender Statistics Strategy
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