Outline

1. Gender and intersectional intersectional inequalities

2. New flagship initiative on gender statistics to support
localization and monitoring of SDGs – opportunities for
addressing disability
Strong content on GEWE in 2030 agenda
• Realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will make
a crucial contribution to progress (2030 Agenda Declaration)
• Goal 5 “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”: Six
Outcome and three MOI targets – many TGs addressing a multiple set of
gender equality concerns (e.g. 5.1; 5.2, 5.3, 5.a, 5.c)
• Gender sensitive TGs in many other goals: >25% of TGs. (21 mention
‘women, men, girls, boys or gender equality’ and 16 refer to ‘universal’
or access for ‘all’)
• No one left behind: need to disaggregate by ‘income, sex, age, race,
ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other
characteristics relevant in national contexts’ (TG 19.18; para 74.g)
Monitoring of GEWE in SDGs: Significant
developments and many (new) tools

• Many new tools to draw from, including:

• Minimum set of gender indicators (52 Outcome + 11 Norms
indicators) adopted by UNSC in 2013 + adaptations in most regions
• Core set of 9 VAW indicators (UNSC 2009, 2011, 2013)
• Technical resources: guidelines on gender statistics (UNECE/WB,
UNSD); VAW data (UNSD); census (UNFPA); Gender data
navigator (WB); gender and STEM (UNESCO) etc.
• Various collaboration forums, coordination mechanisms and
partnerships, (IAEG-GS, EDGE, DATA2X etc.)
But many existing and new challenges for
statistics
• Issues covered go beyond minimum set
• e.g. measuring discrimination: Indicator about results, not means;
but need one priority indicator; avoid composite indices, perception
indicators etc. – no credible alternative yet
• MOI targets: indicators to be universally relevant; avoid measuring
inputs
• Going beyond sex disaggregation: disaggregate also for marginalized
groups, people with disabilities, migrants, etc. but with finite sample
sizes.
• Gender and environment – brand new issues to think about such as
gender and climate change (e.g. TG 13b)
• Doing justice to it all with a limited number of indicators (multipurpose
indicators)
Experience of UN-Women in TST and IAEG-
SDGs to date: Goal 5
• During Open Working Group negotiations, UN-Women, UNFPA and
OHCHR led TST Gender cluster (later SDG 5)
• Within UN System, including recent exercise by UN Chief Statisticians,
UN Women coordinated inputs for Goal 5
• Precedent of collaboration within IAEG-GS, so broad agreement among
contributing agencies (i.e. FAO, ITU, OHCHR, UNICEF, UNESCO,
UNODC, UNFPA and UN Women)
• Intensive consultation with civil society organizations, including
monthly meetings, so broadly aligned
• Comments by member states vary: Most are supportive and more
ambitious but some have also questions about the choice of
indicators
Indicators for Goal 5 (and reactions to them)
(1)
• Indicators for which there is broad enough agreement
Possible disaggregation
Targe
Suggested indicator Data source Monitoring agency Tier Other
t Sex Age Loc. Inc.
*

Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15+

subjected to physical, sexual and psychological violence by a
5.2 DHS + VAW surveys UN-Women, UNICEF, UNSD II √ √ √ √
current or former intimate partner, in the last 12 months, by
form of violence and age

Proportion of women and girls aged 15+ subjected to sexual

5.2 violence by persons other than an intimate partner, since DHS + VAW surveys UN-Women, UNICEF and UNSD II √ √ √ √
age 15, by age and place of occurrence

Percentage of women aged 20-24 who were married or in a

5.3 DHS and MICS UNICEF and UNFPA I √ √ √
union before age 15 and age 18 (i.e., child marriage)

Percentage of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have

5.3 undergone FGM/C, disaggregated by age group, with a DHS and MICS UNICEF and UNFPA I √ √ √ √
particular focus on ages 15-19

Average weekly hours spent on unpaid domestic and care

5.4 work, by sex, age and location (for individuals 5 years and Time-use surveys UN-Women and UNSD II √ √ √ √ √
above)**
Indicators for Goal 5 (and reactions to them)
(2)
• Indicators for which there is agreement but some questions remain
Possible disaggregation
12 Suggested indicator Data source Monitoring agency Tier Other
Sex Age Loc. Inc.
*
Proportion of women (aged 15-49) who make their own
5.6 DHS and MICS*** UNFPA II √ √ √ √
sexual and reproductive decisions
Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by
5.b Household surveys ITU II √ √ √ √ √
sex

• Indicators for which countries have raised serious concerns about

methodological clarity, areas of law covered, or type of indicator

Number (%) of countries with legal frameworks that promote

5.1 gender equality and non-discrimination against all women CEDAW CEDAW, UN-Women, OHCHR III
and girls

Proportion of countries with laws and regulations that

guarantee all women and adolescents access to sexual and
5.6 Country reports UNFPA II
reproductive health (SRH) services, information and
education
Indicators for Goal 5 (and reactions to them)
(3)
• Indicators that were added/changed following comments
Possible disaggregation
Target Suggested indicator Data source Monitoring agency Tier Other
Sex Age Loc Inc
*
Proportion of girls and women (aged 15-19 and 20-24) who
5.2 were subjected to sexual violence before age 15 by any DHS + VAW surveys UN-Women, UNICEF and UNSD II √ √ √
persons
Administrative data from
Number of detected and non-detected victims of human
5.2 law enforcement UNODC II √ √ √
trafficking per 100,000; by sex, age and form of exploitation
institutions/Field studies
Average weekly time spent in water collection (including
5.4 waiting time at public supply points), by sex, age and Household surveys UN-Women and UNICEF III √ √ √ √ √
location
Proportion of pre-school children who are in early childhood
5.4 Household surveys UNICEF III √ √ √ √ √
care and education (ECCE) programmes
Proportion of women in leadership positions in political,
economic and public life, by level and by type (leadership
positions include the executive (Heads of State and
Administrative + IPU, UN-Women, UNODC, UCLG and
5.5 Governments, ministers and local governments), legislative I
household surveys ILO
(national parliaments), judiciary and law enforcement
(judges and police officers), and managers in public and
private sector entreprises)
5.5 Share of female researchers, by seniority level Administrative UNESCO I √
(a) Percentage of people with secure rights over agricultural
land (out of total agricultural workers), by sex; and (b) Agricultural census and
5.a FAO, UNSD, UN-Women III √ √ √ √
Percentage share of women among owners or rights- surveys
bearers of agricultural land” by type of tenure
Expenditure on gender equality policies as a percentage of
Monitoring GEWE in other goals – Limited
traction beyond sex disaggregation
• Limited traction when list of indicators limited to one priority
indicator per issue, unless target is specifically about gender (e.g.
MMR, SRH, equal pay)
• At best sex-disaggregation, but little by way of prioritizing indicators
that address other important gender concerns
• e.g. TG 3.9 addresses air pollution, but no traction for indoor air
pollution
• e.g. Indic proposed for TG 4.2 measures 5 year-old children
‘developmentally on track’ but participation in childcare
unaddressed
• e.g. Indic for TG 11.7 measures built up areas of cities, but
completely leave safety aspect unaddressed (e.g. physical and
sexual harassment against women and girls)
• Issues that are part of targets but are simply ignored: e.g. TG 4.7
Back to process: Still many unknowns
• What happens now that open consultation phase is over? Lots of
inputs and differences to reconcile before 2nd IAEG-SDGs?
• Discussions happening at regional level, sometimes led by
Regional Commissions – links to the current IAEG process?
• If priority criterion is kept, what to do with non-priority indicators?
(keep them for expanded set of thematic indicators?)
• How to ensure no one left behind but avoid ‘disaggregation
fatigue’  important role for thematic monitoring?
Better production and use of gender statistics
for evidence-based localization of the SDGs
• Ambitious new flagship programme
initiative from UN Women: 3 objectives:
• Address weak policy space and legal
and financial environment to produce
gender statistics at national level
• Address technical challenges within
National statistical systems that limit
the production of gender statistics
• Address lack of access to data and
limited capacity on the part of
policymakers and other users to
analyse them to inform policies Opportunities for collaboration
1. Supportive policy environment in place to
ensure gender-responsive localization and
effective monitoring of the SDGs
• Outputs
1.1. An assessment of gender statistics and
identification of gaps is conducted at the national level
1.2. Enabling legal frameworks, institutional
arrangements, and adequate resources for gender
statistics are in place
1.3. National plans to localize gender-related SDGs
targets and indicators are developed
2. Quality, comparable and regular gender statistics are
available to address national data gaps and meet policy
and reporting commitments under the SDGs, CEDAW
and Beijing
• Output
2.1. Capacity of the national statistical system (NSS)
strengthened to compile Tier I indicators in the
minimum set and SDGs
2.2. Capacity of the NSS strengthened to collect Tier II
indicators in the minimum set and SDGs
2.3. Capacity of the NSS strengthened to produce Tier
III indicators in the minimum set and SDGs
3. Gender statistics are accessible to all users (including
governments, civil society, academia and private sector) and can be
analysed to inform research, advocacy, policies and programmes,
and promote accountability
• Outputs
3.1. Increased dissemination of data at national, regional
and global levels
3.2. User-producer dialogues institutionalized to increase
accessibility, quality and demand for gender statistics
3.3. Capacity of civil society, government and other
actors to use and analyse and use gender statistics to
inform decision-making is strengthened