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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.
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Bibliographic information
Geographic coverage:
Africa
Subject areas:
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Gender data gaps
Gender data production and collection
Gender data use and accessibility
Gender equality and women’s empowerment
Gender equality indicators
Gender mainstreaming
Gender statistics
Gender, culture and society
National statistical systems
Sex-disaggregated data
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Resource type(s):
Good practices
UN Women office publishing:
East and Southern Africa Regional Office
Publication year
2024
Number of pages
80
Publishing entity/ies:
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)