Assessment of Data Availability of Gender Indicators in MDGs

IAEG Meeting on Gender and MDGsCairo, 10-11 September 2007

Neda Jafar

Statistics Division

ESCWA

jafarn@un.org

Background

1995: Beijing Platform for Action

Generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for planning and evaluation

“Ensure that statistics related to individuals are collected, compiled, analysed and presented by sex and age and reflect problems, issues and questions related to women and men in society”

Concerns• Slow progress in the development of gender statistics at

the national and hence international levels

• Sex disaggregated data is the exception rather than the rule

• Official sex and age disaggregated statistics limited to the min set of indicators and available for basic socio-demographic topics

• Not available for specific and detailed issues

• Not official for emerging gender issues (violence, time use, crime statistics)

Gender equality and empowerment of women –G3 is at the core of all the MDGs

A gender-aware national MDG report: broaden the scope of accountability on

women’s rights and give greater public visibility to efforts made to achieve gender equality

Gender & MDGs

Catalyze gender-responsive policy-making and programming

Facilitate more optimal resource allocation

A platform for partnerships between national governments and civil societies committed to women’s rights

Allows diverse actors in development to reach a common agenda and deploy resources where they are most needed

MDG Goals and Indicators

Countries

%

Egy Syria Yem Leb Pal Jor Alg Qatar Tun Oman

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and Hunger                      

Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day

                     

1. Proportion of population below poverty line                      

2. Share of poorest quintile in national consumption

                     

Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

                     

4. Prevalence of underweight children under-five years of age

                   

5. Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption

                   

MDG Goals and Indicators

Countries

%

Egypt Syria Yem Leb Pal Jor Algeria Qatar Tun OmanGoal 2: Achieve Universal primary education                       Target 3: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

                     

6. Net enrolment ratio in primary education

x         x     x x 40% 7. Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5 (reach last grade of primary)               x     10%

7a. Primary completion rate                    

8. Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds x x     x   x x x x 70%

                     

MDG Goals and Indicators Countries %

Egypt Syria Yem Leb Pal Jor Algeria Qatar TunOma

nTarget 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015

      X x x x   x x 60% 9. Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education       X     x x x x 50% 10. Ratio of literate women to men, 15-24 years old

        x     x x x 40% 11. Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector   x x     x x     x 50% 12. Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament

                     

MDG Goals and Indicators

Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality

Countries

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Egypt Syria Yem Leb Pal Jor Algeria Qatar Tun OmanTarget 5: Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under five mortality rate x     X   x x     x 50% 13. Under-five mortality rate x     X x x x   x x 70% 14. Infant mortality rate     x     x         20% 15.Proportion of 1 year-old children immunized against measles                      Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health                      Target 6: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

  x   X x x     x   50% 16. Maternal mortality ratio x x       x x     x 50% 17.Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel                      

MDG Goals and Indicators

Countries

%

Egypt Syria Yem Leb Pal JorAlgeri

a Qatar Tun Oman

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases                       Target 7: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

                      18. HIV prevalence among pregnant women aged 15-24 years 19. Condom use rate of the contraceptive prevalence rate 19a. Condom use at last high-risk sex

                     

19b. Percentage of population aged 15-24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS x           x       20%

19c. Contraceptive prevalence rate                       20. Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance of non-orphans aged 10-14 years

                     

MDG Goals and Indicators

Countries

%

Egypt Syria Yem Leb Pal Jor

Algeria Qatar Tun Oman

Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability           x         10%Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources

                    29. Proportion of population using solid fuels

              x     10%Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to drinking water and basic sanitation

          x   x     20% 30. Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural                    

31. Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation, urban and rural                      

45. Unemployment rate of young people aged 15-24 years, each sex and total

11 11 3.13 3.13 3 3 13.64 13.64 46. Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis

0 0 0.00 0.00 0 0 0.00 0.00

48b. Internet users per 100 population 228 0 64.77 0.00 22 0 100.00 0.00

# Indicators with 2 Points in Time In G8 25  7.10         

Recommendations To strengthen reporting on all Goals :

Collection and reporting on sex-disaggregated data including vulnerable groups (landless agriculture workers, racial and ethnic minorities, disabled, single-parent hh, people in conflict areas)

Localizing and contextualizing targets and indicators at the sub-national level

Cross-reference with other goals and highlight connections btw them

Conducting data mining and assessing availability of sex-disaggregated data from the national databases to include wider range of priority issues and highlight specific aspects of women’s issues and implications for gender equality

Identify main obstacles to achieving goals and closing gender gaps

Use of qualitative data, including from micro studies at community level, to highlight content and quality of education, health system, etc..

Reporting on costing exercises and budgetary allocations for government programme interventions

Sources

DevInfo 2006 National MDG Reports En Route to Equality