Lack of adequate data to inform and monitor policies and progress undermines efforts to move forward Africa's gender agenda. The production of gender statistics in the region has been slow due to a combination of factors discussed in this Plan. However, increased interest in gender statistics and the current conducive policy environment for the their integration into statistical databases provide valuable opportunities to further strengthen statistical systems in Africa.

This brief gives an overview of the Gender Statistics programmes across East and Southern Africa.

The study identifies a number of challenges including inadequate normative frameworks and infrastructure to support statistical production, large time gaps between household surveys and censuses, limited dissemination and use of gender data and statistics across the NSS, and weak administrative data quality and systems in Malawi.

The Third Plan for National Statistical Development (PNSD III) is the national framework for guiding statistical production and development in Uganda for FY2020/21 to FY2024/25 in keeping with the Third National Development Plan (NDP III), regional, and global agendas.

This assessment identifies gaps in Sudan’s gender statistics system with findings related to the country’s related frameworks, strategies, production, analysis, and use of gender data and statistics. The findings are expected to provide the basis for the implementation of Making Every Woman and Girl Count (Women Count), UN Women’s flagship gender data and statistics programme in Sudan.

As a strategic step towards increasing gender data production and its use in reaching women and girls, Uganda developed these guidelines to govern the use of data from non-traditional sources such as civil society organizations (CSOs) and the private sector to complement official statistics.

The study identifies a number of challenges including inadequate normative frameworks and infrastructure to support statistical production, large time gaps between household surveys and censuses, limited dissemination and use of gender data and statistics across the NSS, and weak administrative data quality and systems in Mozambique.

Booklet that guides the production, analysis and communication of gender statistics among data producers and users. and promote the use of gender statistics for informed decision-making and policy development.

The gaps identified in this needs assessment report relate to the interrelated areas of: enabling policy environment, data production, accessibility and use for strengthening the gender statistical system in the United Republic of Tanzania. This assessment is extremely relevant to the period when the country is implementing the 2030 global agenda its respective national plans.