Knowledge Management and Information Sharing: The Structure of UNECE

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Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
The Structure of UNECEs work on Gender
Statistics

• Victoria Velkoff, on behalf of
• UNECE Statistical Division

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Conference of European Statisticians (CES)

• Provides a framework for UNECE work on Gender
  Statistics
• Functions of the CES in ECE work on Gender
  Statistics
• Approves new work
• Monitors progress through annual updates
• Ensures work plan is carried out
• Maintains relevance of work

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Areas in which we work

• Data dissemination and collection
• Measurement of violence against women (VAW)
• Process to change data collection and
  dissemination in National Statistical System
• Emerging issues for UNECE
• Gender and minorities

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UNECE Activities

• Methodological work
• Manual of how to gender sensitize national
  statistical offices
• Framework of indicators on gender statistics
• Technical cooperation
• Regional and national workshops on gender
  statistics held twice a year

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Structure of work

• Gender Focal Point Network
• UNECE Regional Work Session every 2 years
• Meeting place for Gender FPs, users, and key
  international organizations active in the region
  (e.g., UNDAW, UNDP, FAO, UNFPA, UNIFEM, EU, OECD,
  ILO, WHO)

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Structure of work

• Steering Group on Gender Statistics
• 3 Task Forces
• TF on Gender Sensitization Training for
  Statisticians
• TF on Violence Against Women
• TF on UNECE Gender Statistics Database

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Steering Group

• Main objectives
• Coordinate the work of the TFs
• Plan future UNECE meetings and workshops in the
  field of gender statistics

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Task Force on Gender-sensitisation Training for
Statisticians

• Objectives
• Collect available training materials and make
  them available
• Develop a training module for future use
• UNECEs Manual on Gender-sensitization Training
  for Statisticians

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Task Force on Gender-sensitization Training for
Statisticians

• Participation
• Country representatives from Serbia, the
  Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United
  States and UNECE.
• Partners
• World Bank Institute, FAO, UNDP, UNFPA

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Task Force on Violence Against Women

• Exchange and promote methods for specialized VAW
  surveys
• Define common concepts, develop a core set of
  indicators and identify a minimum set of
  questions for a short-module that can be
  incorporated into on-going surveys

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Task Force on Violence Against Women

• Participation
• Country representative from Serbia, Italy,
  Canada, HEUNI, OHCHR, UNDAW, WHO, UNIFEM and
  UNECE.
• Academic institutions active in VAW research

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Task Force on UNECE Gender Statistics Database

• Foster collaboration and discussion with National
  Statistical Offices and other international
  organizations working on similar databases
• Provide suggestions on new indicators or
  modifications to the UNECE database
• Develop a marketing strategy to reach out to
  users
• Coordinate/produce publications using data from
  the UNECE database on a regular basis, possibly
  in collaboration with national agencies and
  international organizations

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Task Force on UNECE Gender Statistics Database

• Participation
• Country representative from Canada, Finland, the
  Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
  Switzerland, OECD, and UNECE.

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How the TFs carry out their work

• Main means of communication
• ? E-mail
• ? Audioconferences
• Occasional TF meetings with specific aims to
  further the work
• E.g., TF Meetings on Gender Sensitization to
  produce the outline for the Manual

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Challenges

• Making it happen
• How to encourage Statistical Offices to change
  their methodologies to incorporate gender into
  the foundation of their statistics
• How to engage managers of Statistical Offices in
  understanding why gender needs to be integrated
  in their work
• Violence Against Women
• Development and maintenance of collaborative
  efforts from different constituencies and
  expertise

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Challenges

• Use of data from the Database and marketing of
  the Database
• How to better disseminate the data and encourage
  usage by Statistical Offices and other users

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Thank you!