Unlocking the value of gender data; A regional toolkit for transformative action

This Toolkit is designed to support the enhanced use of existing gender data and statistics in policy, advocacy, planning, and accountability in East and Southern Africa. The production and use of gender statistics is a complex process that requires deliberate efforts to connect, incentivize, and influence.The strategies outlined provide guidance and user-friendly tips on how to influence, direct, and monitor the pace of progress towards achieving gender equality and women’s economic empowerment and using gender data and statistics.

The Toolkit development process established that in East and Southern Africa, national statistics offices (NSOs) continue to produce data that is often not integrated into decision-making. As a result, producers of data and the target users across the data value chain find themselves at the point of ‘information asymmetry’ in East and Southern Africa.