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Background We are celebrating fifteen years of sustained work, of sharing experiences and good practices, year after year; of reflecting and debating on the requirements and challenges to incorporate the gender perspective into the production and information analysis. Fifteen years of commitment to the implementation of public policies designed to eradicate gender inequality and discrimination. Fifteen years of improving the evidence for public policies oriented to empower women and achieve substantive equality. Gender statistics have taken a central position in the agenda of equality between men and women. The Beijing Platform agreed on, almost 20 years ago, contemplates the strengthening of National Women s Machineries (NWM), as well as the integration of gender perspective into public policies as a core axis for the advancement of women, all supported by empirical evidence. In this sense, gender statistics have become an essential tool for accountability and for evaluating women s progress in the world. The production of gender statistics constitutes a commitment taken up by the State Parties through several Women s Rights instruments, the most ample of which is the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). This Convention establishes that the State Parties shall produce and analyze gender statistics in order to sustain upon strong foundations, the reports submitted to the CEDAW Committee. The production of gender statistics has also been a reason for concern and compromise, of regional consensus and declarations of National Women s Machineries. Nowadays, we have a unique, historical opportunity to advance towards the inclusion of a transformative objective for gender equality within sustainable development agenda post 2015; and to mainstream gender in all goals and objectives concerning this agenda. In this context it is necessary to assess the progress on gender statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean, by sharing initiatives, lessons learned and good practices it is likewise important to reflect on emerging issues and new methodologies in developing statistical areas (economic empowerment, violence against women and decision making). agenda Aghhs INGL.indd 2
A Review of Work on Gender Statistics in the Americas The generation of statistical information to meet the demands for the creation of a new agenda for sustainable development requires a profound transformation concerning the generation of data and imposes unprecedented challenges on its usage for supporting gender equality policies. In this sense, institutional partnerships, interagency coordination and South-South cooperation on gender statistics become particularly significant for achieving a greater harmonization in the progress of Latin American countries. The momentum awarded to the generation of gender-sensitive statistics by international organizations as well as women s organizations in global forums, has helped revitalized States commitment to assume the challenges posed by gender inequality and discrimination against women. Having strong data might accurately show the magnitude and complexity of gender inequality, its causes and consequences, constitutes both a challenge and an opportunity for National Statistics Offices and for the institutions which hold the responsibility of public policy making. In 1999, after the Beijing Conference, the institutional working in the field of gender statistics in the Americas took a major step with the First International Meeting on Gender Statistics which took place in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico, organized by INEGI and UNIFEM (the forerunner of UN Women). This meeting was the first in a series of annual meetings between Representatives of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) and Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women (MAWs). Since then, the meetings have provided an opportunity for reflection, analysis and discussion between users and producers of gender sensitive information. During the first meeting, the main concern expressed by the participants, was the institutionalization of an initiative to share knowledge and best practices, in a framework designed to achieve the harmonization and comparability of gender statistics in the region and the promotion of South-South cooperation. Thus, at the 7 th Meeting (2006), participants agreed on the creation of a Working Group on Gender Statistics (WGGS) by the Statistical Conference in the Americas, to be coordinated jointly by INEGI and the Technical Secretariat for the Division of Gender Affairs (DGA-ECLAC) with technical assistance from the National Institute for Women and UN Women. In 2007 the WGGS was approved, with a work program supported by the same institutions. 1 As a result of fifteen years of meetings, an important progress has been achieved through the contributions made by this network of ONEs and MAMs at the global level, by the United Nations Statistics Division and the development of the Inter-Institutional Group of Experts on Gender Statistics working plan, as well as capacity building activities contained in the WGGS working plan of the CEA. 1 Member countries of WGGS of SCA/ECLAC: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela. agenda Aghhs INGL.indd 3
Wednesday, November 5 12:00 a 15:00 Registration of participants WELCOME MESSAGES 15:00 a 15:20 Lorena Cruz President of the National Institute for Women (INMUJERES), Mexico Ana Güezmes UN Women Representative in Mexico Sonia Montaño Director of the Gender Affairs Division, The Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC), Chile Eduardo Sojo President of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico PLENARY SESSION Messages from Mrs. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women and Mrs. Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, ECLAC Keiko Osaki Chief of the Demographic and Social Statistics branch of the UN s Statistics Division (UNSD) 15:30 a 15:50 Ana Güezmes A transformative objective for gender equality in the Post 2015 Development Agenda and the statistical needs 15:50 a 16:10 Lorena Cruz Fifteen years of International Meeting on Gender Statistics (History of the Meetings) 16:10 a 16:30 Sonia Montaño Challenges, 20 years after the Conference on Women in Beijing (History of the situation of the countries from 1995-2014) 16:30 a 16:50 Eduardo Sojo Commentator 16:50 a 17:00 Group Shot Photography ROUNDTABLE The promotion of gender statistics for compliance of the commitments of the gender equality agenda Doris Duque Technical Director of the Transition Commission for the National Council for Women and Gender Equality of Ecuador 17:00 a 17:20 Gladys Acosta Expert of the Committee of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW ) 17:20 a 17:40 Rubén Narciso Manager, Statistical National Institute, Guatemala 17:40 a 18:00 Gisela Alonso Member of the High Level Eminent Persons Group of the Post-2015 Development Agenda with the Latin American and the Caribbean governments 18:00 Welcome cocktail agenda Aghhs INGL.indd 4
Thursday, November 6 PARALLEL SESSIONS Session 1A Statistics on violence against women Multipurpose room 8:30 a 9:00 Registration of participants Adriana Quiñones Regional Advisor Ending Violence against Women, UN Women 9:00 a 10:20 Statistical needs on violence against women Claudia García Moreno Lead Specialist, Gender-based Violence, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization (WHO) Working Group statistics on public safety and justice of the SCA-ECLAC Félix Vélez Governing Board Vice-President, INEGI, México Progress and challenges in generating statistical information on violence against women in Mexico Gicela Ramírez Social Statistics Branch and Violence Against Women, INEGI, Mexico Statistics on violence and femicide in Peru Juan Huambachano Manager of the Peru s Public Ministry Criminal Observatory 10:20 a 11:20 Questions and answers 11:20 a 11:40 Break Session 1B Gender and Health Statistics Carlos M. Jarque Auditorium 8:30 a 9:00 Registration of participants Lilia Jara Advisor on Gender, Ethnicity and Health, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) 9:00 a 10:20 Gender and health Elsa Gómez Consultant on gender and health, Washington Positioning gender and health in global, regional and national policy agendas: the importance of evidence and statistics Anna Coates Head of Gender and Cultural Diversity, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Gender and Health Statistics Sakiko Fukuda Professor, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School University, New York Experience on Gender Integration of Health Statistics and pilot experience with a gender approach on maternal death in Costa Rica Edda Quiros Ministry of Health, Costa Rica 10:20 a 11:20 Questions and answers 11:20 a 11:40 Break Session 2A Statistics on participation of women in decision-making Multipurpose room Guadalupe Espinosa Independent consultant 11:40 a 12:40 Strategic objectives for the political empowerment of women in Latin America and Caribbean. ATENEA: Tools for Analysis and Action Irune Aguirrezabal Regional Adviser on Political Participation, UN Women Observatory of the Political Participation in Bolivia`s Experience María Angela Sotelo Women Coordinator, Bolivia Observatory of Political Participation in Mexico Paula Soto Director of Social and Political Participation, INMUJERES, Mexico 12:40 a 13:40 Questions and answers 13:40 a 15:00 Lunch Session 2B Statistics on gender and migration Carlos M. Jarque Auditorium Anitzel Merino Director of Documentation and Information, INMUJERES, Mexico 11:40 a 12:40 The importance of statistics to ensure the rights of migrant women Allison Petrozziello Gender and Migration Specialist, UN Women Women in migration Monserrat Hernández International Organization for Migration (IOM) Gender and migration Paula Leite Deputy General Director of the Center for Migration Studies, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mexico 12:40 a 13:40 Questions and answers 13:40 a 15:00 Lunch...Thursday, November 6 PARALLEL SESSIONS 3A y 3B agenda Aghhs INGL.indd 5
Thursday, november 6 PARALLEL SESSIONS Session 3A Gender and economic empowerment statistics (paid and unpaid work) Multipurpose room Rodrigo Negrete General Direction of Integration and Analysis of Information, INEGI, Mexico 15:00 a 16:30 Implications of the decision of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on labor statistics David Glejberman Regional Advisor on Labour Statistics, International Labour Organization (ILO) International Classification of Activities for Statistics on Time Use (ICATUS) Harumi Shibata Associate Statistician, Demographic and Social Statistics branch of the UN s Statistics Division (UNSD) Classification of time use activities for Latin America and the Caribbean (CAUTAL) María Eugenia Gómez Luna / Lucía Scuro Deputy General Director for Technical Assistance to the National Economic Information Subsystem, INEGI, Mexico / Social Affairs Officer, GAD-ECLAC 16:30 a 17:30 Questions and answers Session 3B Gender and agricultural and rural statistics Carlos M. Jarque Auditorium Carolina Taborga UN Women Representative in Paraguay 15:00 a 16:30 Myths on women in agriculture: why it is necessary to improve statistics on land ownership and who makes agricultural decisions Diana Deere Distinguished Professor of Latin American Studies and Food & Resource Economics, University of Florida Working Group on Agricultural Statistics SCA Marcos Thanus Nunes Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, IBGE A gender perspective in the Mexican economy Susana Pérez Cadena Director of the Economic and Agricultural Statistics, INEGI, Mexico 16:30 a 17:30 Questions and answers Friday, November 7 PARALLEL SESSIONS Session 4A Gender and poverty statistics Multipurpose room 8:30 a 9:00 Registration of participants Felix Vélez Governing Board Vice-President, INEGI, Mexico 9:00 a 10:20 Working Group on harmonization of statistics on income poverty and public transfers, SCA Adriana Vernengo National Institute of Statistics of Uruguay An inequalities picture Natalia Fontoura Gender Equality and Race Coordinator, Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), Brazil Poverty and gender Xavier Mancero Officer in Charge of the Unit of ECLAC Social Statistics Progress and challenges in measuring unpaid work and poverty in Colombia Andrea Paola García Ruiz National Administrative Department of Statistics, Colombia 10:20 a 11:20 Questions and answers 11:20 a 11:30 Break Sesión 4B Estadísticas de género, educación y tecnologías de la información Carlos M. Jarque Auditorium 8:30 a 9:00 Registration of participants Lucía Scuro Social Affairs Officer, GAD-ECLAC 9:00 a 10:20 Gender statistics, science, technology and innovation Cirila Gutiérrez National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) Peru Education statistics Claudia Alonso Deputy General Director of Gender Equality, Ministry of Public Education, Mexico Gender statistics and information technology Margarita Jiménez Information and Communication Technologies of the SCA-ECLAC Statistical Conference, Task Force, National Statistical Office of the Dominican Republic 10:20 a 11:20 Questions and answers 11:20 a 11:30 Break agenda Aghhs INGL.indd 6
Friday, November 7 PLENARY SESSION Marcela Eternod Executive Secretary, INMUJERES 11:30 a 13:00 Challenges for the advancement of indigenous peoples statistics from a gender perspective Message from Mirna Cunningham Mirna Cunningham s video message, Advisor to the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples Margarita Antonio Alliance of Indigenous Women of Central America and Mexico Minimum set of gender indicators agreed at the global level and Post 2015 Development Agenda Francesca Grum Head of the Social Statistics Unit, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) Gender indicators in the Post 2015 Development Agenda Diana Alarcón Senior Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) Post Agenda Indicators 2015. A country look Gabriel Rivera Conde y Castañeda Head of Strategic Projects Unit, Office of the President, Mexico 13:00 a 13:40 Questions and answers 13:40 a 15:00 Lunch PLENARY SESSION Nadine Gassman UN Women Representative in Brazil 15:00 a 16:20 Report of the Gender Equality Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean Alejandra Valdés Coordinator of the Gender Equality Observatory, GAD-ECLAC Progress Report of the Working Group on Gender Statistics of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA-ECLAC) Lucía Scuro / Félix Vélez Social Affairs Officer, GAD-ECLAC / Governing Board Vice-President, INEGI, Mexico Incorporating gender in National Statistical Offices and analysis of information on the Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women Marcela Eternod Executive Secretary, INMUJERES, Mexico Balances and challenges on the production of gender statistics in the region María de la Paz López Gender Statistics Specialist, Un Women, Mexico 16:20 a 17:00 Questions and Answers CLOSING SESSION 17:00 a 17:30 Félix Vélez Governing Board Vice-President, INEGI, Mexico Marcela Eternod Executive Secretary, INMUJERES, Mexico Sonia Montaño Director of the Gender Affairs Division, The Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC), Chile Ana Güezmes UN Women Representative in Mexico agenda Aghhs INGL.indd 7
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