international meeting on Statistical challenges towards the implementation of the Post 2015 Agenda September 9 th, 10 th and 11 th INEGI, Aguascalientes, Mexico AGUASCALIENTES, MEXICO / SEPTEMBER 9 th, l0 th AND ll th, 2015 This event will be held in the Multipurpose Room, at the INEGI Headquarters Building, located in Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico, Av. Héroe de Nacozari Sur No. 2301, Fraccionamiento Jardines del Parque.
Conceptual note for the l6 th International Meeting on Gender Statistics: Statistical challenges towards the implementation of the Post 20l5 Agenda In the year 2000, UN Women, INEGI and INMUJERES agreed upon the need to initiate an international dialogue with countries of the Latin America and Caribbean Region, in order to assist in the strengthening of the awareness on the generation, dissemination and use of gender statistics for gender equality policies, in line with the main areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action and the declaration of the binding mandate of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Inter-American Convention to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Violence Against Women, Convention of Belém do Pará. That year, the 1st international meeting on gender statistics was organized. 1 As a result, a solid strategic alliance was built which the Gender Affairs Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) joined in 2006. One of the most noteworthy developments of this alliance was the creation of the Working Group of Gender Statistics (WGGS) of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) of ECLAC. It was approved by the SCA at the 4th Conference of 2007. 2 international meeting on To date, fifteen international meetings have been organized, promoting the exchange of best practices and lessons learned both in the production and in the use of data for the preparation, implementation, monitoring and assessment of public policies, as well as the academic analysis of data from a gender perspective. The meetings have taken place in the headquarters of INEGI, in Aguascalientes, Mexico, sponsored by INMUJERES and INEGI, UN Women and ECLAC. The work of the WGGS is is based on the strategic goals of the Beijing Platform for Action, among which is the creation and strengthening of Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women, to design, implement and assess the incorporation of a gender perspective in legislation, policies, programs and projects, based on solid statistical information showing how different social problems affect women and men differentially. Thus, gender statistics have become an indispensable tool for public policies, accountability, and the assessment of progress of women in the world. º In Mexico, since the middle of the 1990s, UN Women (previously UNIFEM), the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) and the National Institute of Women (INMUJERES), formed an alliance to promote, on the national agenda, the development of statistics with a gender-based approach. Its initial work focused on producing and disseminating statistics disaggregated by gender in various publications, creating a national system of gender indicators from national data sources, and venturing into the production of data concerning use of time and unpaid work. 2 Mexico coordinates the WGGS through INEGI. ECLAC acts as a technical secretary and INMUJERES and UN Women act as advisory institutions.
The international meetings on gender statistics have strengthened the relationship between producers and users of data on gender statistics, by means of dissemination of knowledge, promotion of dialogue and strengthening of the skills of officers in the National Statistics Offices (NSO), the Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women (MAW) and other institutions responsible for public policies. This strategic alliance between institutions that produce and use statistical information has acquired great relevance to visualize both the progress made and the gender disparities. The Beijing Platform for Action proposed the achievement of gender equality in all aspects of life. However, to date no country has achieved this. Therefore, the Platform continues to be valid, and its 20th anniversary offers new opportunities to renew bonds, revitalize the commitments made by the signatory states and strengthen the political will to promote the advancement of women and achieve gender equality. In addition, this year also represents the deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Therefore, the Member States of the United Nations, the UN system, organizations of civil society and academia, among others, are working to define the shape and the priorities of a development agenda for the next 15 years; one that is universal, transformative and rights-based. During the discussions concerning the post-2015 development agenda, most of the stakeholders highlighted that one of the strengths of the MDGs scheme was having clear objectives and specific target measures with specific dates and measurable indicators for targets, which, as pointed out by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, were credible, realistic and feasible. However, the MDGs did not include fundamental themes for the groups that suffer the greatest effects of inequality--including women and children- such as human rights, good governance and violence. Therefore, the formulation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must be more ambitious and the progress in the achievement of its goals must also be monitored with relevant data, with different levels of disaggregation, such as gender, ethnicity, age, disability and socioeconomic status, to reflect the unequal distribution of wealth, resources and gender gaps in order to promote evidence-based policies and strengthen accountability. In February 2013, the United Nations Statistical Commission adopted 52 minimum indicators, a minimum set to measure gender equality and approved nine indicators to measure violence against women. Furthermore, an open work group (OWG) was established at the Rio + 20 Conference concerning the SDGs. In September 2014 the Open Working Group submitted a report to the UN General Assembly containing the proposal of 17 SDGs, including SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. In September 2015 states will adopt the SDGs and in 2016 will reach an agreement on the indicators for follow-up and monitoring will be reached. It is an undeniable fact that, in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development, particularly gender inequality must be reduced. Discrimination against women an girls affects the progress of countries. The global development agenda must monitor the elimination of gender inequality gaps, and modify the structural factors underlying inequalities and gender-based violence. Gender statistics will play a key role in this process. Currently, we have more and better statistical information on subjects related to gender, women s rights and empowerment, thanks to the work conducted over the last twenty years by the NSO and MAW groups. Thus, the l6th international meeting of gender statistics offers a space to reflect on how to adopt and adapt the SDG to meet the needs, priorities and opportunities of countries in the region, the availability of data and levels of disaggregation. It also provides an opportunity to discuss the development the required capaciities and the strengthening of methodologies for the production and use of data, as well as the development of gender indicators related to human rights and the advancement of women and girls in issues such as poverty, access to technology, financial and production assets, unpaid care work, statistics, violence against women and girls, women s participation in decisionmaking, among others.
SEPTEMBER 9 th 8:00-9:00 Registration of participants OPENING REMARKS 9:00-10:30 Lorena Cruz, Chair of the National Institute of Women (INMUJERES), Mexico Luiza Carvalho, UN Women s Regional Director for the Americas and Caribbean Maria Nieves Rico, Head of the Gender Affairs Division (GAD) of ECLAC Félix Vélez, Vice-President of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico 10:30-10:40 Group picture SESSION 1 Sustainable Development Goals and the Post 2015 Agenda Moderator: Lorena Cruz, Chair of INMUJERES 10:40-12:10 From the Beijing Platform to the Post 2015 Agenda Luiza Carvalho, UN Women Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean The gender perspective in the regional reading of the Post 2015 Agenda Lucía Scuro, Social Affairs Officer, GAD of ECLAC Statistical challenges on the post 2015 Agenda Harumi Shibata, United Nations Statistics Division Statistical (UNSD) 12:10-13:00 Comments and questions 13:00-14:30 LUNCH SESSION 2 Inclusion of the gender indicators within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Moderator: César Garcés, Director of planning and analysis, Office of the Presidency, Mexico 14:30 16:30 Interagency Experts Group on the Indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals Enrique Ordaz, General Director for the Integration, Analysis and Investigation Area, INEGI Mexico High Level Group on Collaboration, Coordination and Promotion of the Capacity for follow-up activities Post-2015 Jose Rosero, Executive Director of the National Institute os Statistics, INEC, Ecuador (video) Gender equality and SDG from the perspective of international organizations: progress and challenges Papa Seck, Research and Data Section, UN Women, New York Discussion process on SDG indicators. Mercosur and Chile experience Cíntia Simoes Agostinho, Brazilian Statistics an Geography Institute (IBGE), Brazil 16:30-17:30 Comments and questions 17:30-19:30 WELCOME COCKTAIL
SEPTEMBER 10 th SESSION 3 From the Beijing Platform to SDGs: Progress and challenges in the measurement of poverty from a gender perspective Moderator: Carolina Taborga, Un Women s Representative in Paraguay 09:00-10:40 The progress of women in the world. Transforming economies to materialize rights Lara Blanco, Deputy Director Americas & Caribbean, UN Women The journey and the challenges towards a multidimensional measure of poverty from a gender perspective María de la Paz López, General Director of Gender Institutionalization, INMUJERES Poverty and gender inequalities beyond income Janet Gornick, Director of the Luxembourg and New York Income Study Center Time and poverty. Time that impoverishes and time that enriches Iliana Vaca, Gender Affairs Division, ECLAC Experience of Colombia in the measurement of poverty from a gender perspective Andrea Paola García, DANE, Colombia 10:40-11:10 Comments and questions 11:10-11:20 BREAK SESSION 4A Statistics on time and unpaid work Moderator: Ana Laura Pineda, General Director of Evaluation and Statistical Development, INMUJERES 11:20-12:20 Paid, unpaid work and care economy indicators Nancy Folbre, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Adoption of the Law on satellite unpaid work account and implementation strategies in Costa Rica Ana Isabel Rojas, the Women s National Institute, Costa Rica Gender statistics and renewable energy Sissy Larrea, Gender Advisor, Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE) 12:20-12:40 Comments and questions SESSION 4B Statistics on time use and unpaid work Moderator: María Eugenia Gómez Luna, Deputy Director for Technical Assistance to the National Economic Information Subsystem, INEGI 12:40-13:40 Results of the Survey on Use of Time in Mexico and its application Eduardo Ríos, INEGI Paid and unpaid work in the employment survey Jaime Roberto Mejía Salguero, National Institute of Statistics, Guatemala Erwin Antonio García Velázquez, Presidential Secretary for Women in Guatemala (SEPREM) Production and use of data on use of time for public policies Diego Pieri, Chief of the Area for Gender Information System, Women s National Institute Uruguay 13:40-14:00 Comments and questions 14:00-15:00 LUNCH... /
SESSION 5 Statistics on employment and social protection Moderator: Guadalupe Espinosa, independent consultant 15:00-16:00 Recommendations and use of gender statistics for the formulation of policies on domestic work and unpaid care Keiko Nowacka, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris Windows of opportunity to improve the data generated in Observatories: Argentina s Employment Observatory Lucía Tumini, Senior Analyst of the Observatory on Employment and Business Dynamics, Argentina Policies of employment and social protection Claudia Pascual Grau, Minister of the National Women s Service (SERNAM), Chile (video) 16:00 16:20 Comments and questions SESSION 6 Women s access to financial, productive and technological resources Moderator: Ana Güezmes, UN Women s Representative in Mexico 16:20-18:10 Results of information technology and communication modules (ITC) Mónica Diéguez, National Statistical Institute, Uruguay Active Gender gaps: Women access to financial, productive and technological resources Eliana Rubiano, Gender Area, World Bank, Washington Project Evidence and Data for Gender Equality, EDGE. The case of Mexico Papa Seck, UN Women, New York and Félix Vélez, Vice President of INEGI Gender disaggregated data on access to the financial system in Chile Carolina Flores, Chief of Market Area, Superintendence of Banks and Financial Institutions, Chile Remittances with a gender-based approach Jesús Cervantes, Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA) 18:10 18:30 Comments and questions
SEPTEMBER 11 th SESSION 7 Statistics on health and sustainable development from a gender perspective Moderator: Lucía Scuro, Social Affairs Officer, GAD of ECLAC 10:00-10:40 Gender and Health in the framework of the ODS: implications for statistics Lilia Jara, Gender Advisor, PAHO, Washington Gender and sustainable development indicators in the context of the 2030 Development Agenda Claudia Brito, Gender Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 10:40-11:00 Comments and questions SESSION 8 Statistics on women s participation in decision-making Moderator: Marcela Eternod, Executive Secretary, INMUJERES 11:00-11:50 Progress, gaps, challenges and opportunities indicators on women s political participation at the local level Flavia Tello, Ibero-American Union of Municipalist, Spain Women s political participation: information gaps in access to decision-making positions Pilar Tello, Gender Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, IDEA International (TBC) Mexico s Political Participation Observatory (video) INMUJERES 11:50-12:10 Comments and questions SESSION 9 Statistics on violence against women and girls Moderator: Carlos Echarri, El Colegio de Mexico 12:10-13:50 Indicators on Violence from Convention of Belém do Pará (MESECVI) Follow-up Mechanism Luz Patricia Mejía, Coordinator of the Follow-up Mechanism for the Convention of Belém do Pará, Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) Strengthening statistical capacity on women: the International Classification of Crime and Victimization Surveys Luisa Sánchez Iriarte, Centre of excellence for statistical information on government, public security, victimization and justice, INEGI / United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Project of independent household surveys to measure violence against women José Antonio Mejia, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) System of Information on Violence against Women in Mexico Eva Gicela Ramírez, INEGI The use of international instruments to generate statistics on violence against women. The measurement of femicide in Costa Rica Judge Zarela Villanueva, Supreme Court, Costa Rica 13:50-14:30 Comments and questions 14:30-15:50 LUNCH CLOSING SESSION 15:50-16:50 Monitoring gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: opportunities and challenges Luiza Carvalho, UN Women s Regional Director for the Americas and Caribbean CLOSING 16:50-17:40 Marcela Eternod, Executive Secretary, National Institute of Women (INMUJERES) Luiza Carvalho, UN Women s Regional Director for the Americas and Caribbean Maria Nieves Rico, Head of the Gender Affairs Division (GAD) of ECLAC Eduardo Sojo, Chair of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI)
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