Prof. Daniel Macadar SOCIAL WATCH

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Prof. Daniel MacadarSOCIAL WATCH

• SW strategies to monitor indicators involved in
  governments social commitments
• Istanbul, 27 June 2007

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Outline

• I SW objectives
• II SW strategies to monitor international
  social commitments
• III SW Indexes (BCI and GEI)

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I SOCIAL WATCH

• An international citizens network monitoring
  governments in the implementation of the
  international commitments agreed on to erradicate
  poverty and achieve gender equity emanating from
  the 1995 IV World Conference on Women, Beijing,
  and the World Social Development Summit,
  Copenhagen.

I SOCIAL WATCH WORK
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Social Watch Annual Reports Monitorin
g Information SourcesI Statistics Section (from
International Databases)II Country Reports
(qualitative and quantitative data from civil
society national organizations)

• I SOCIAL WATCH WORK

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The Millenium Summit and Social Watchs approach
Thematic areas

• Poverty and distribution
• Food security
• Education
• Health security (morbidity and mortality,
  immunization)
• Environment
• Gender equity (education, economic activity,
  empowerment)
• Reproductive health
• Information, science and technology
• Public expenditure
• Development aid
• International commitments and human rights

• II MONITORING STRATEGY

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Indicator levels and evolution

• In each of the thematic areas the information is
  displayed in relation to the chosen indicators.
• Each indicator covers three columns the
  countrys initial situation (data from 1990 or
  the closest possible year), the latest available
  data and the rate of change.

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Country position in each area

• The situation a country is in, according to each
  indicator, is given by the latest available value
  for that indicator.
• The average values of each thematic area are
  rescaled to create four country categories

• II MONITORING STRATEGY

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Rate of change progress or regression

• The rate of change for each country is obtained
  by considering the variation in the values of the
  indicator over the time period within which the
  measurements are made. The quotient between the
  variation in the indicator and the time period
  reflects the rate of change for the item in
  question.
• Rate
• of ?x Final Value - Initial
• change ?t Final Year - Initial
  Year

• II MONITORING STRATEGY

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Rate of change progress or regression

• II MONITORING STRATEGY

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Rate of change progress or regression

• The average values were rescaled to create five
  categories
• gtgtgtgt Significant progress (countries progressing
  at a higher rate than the average rate of
  progressing countries)
• gtgt Slight progress (countries progressing at
  a lower rate than the average rate of
  progressing countries)
• Stagnant (countries not showing
  significant progression)
• ltlt Slight regression (countries regressing at
  a lower rate than the average rate of regressing
  countries)
• ltltltlt Significant regression (countries
  regressing at a higher rate than the average
  rate of regressing countries)

• II MONITORING STRATEGY

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IIISummarizing data SW indexes

• Basic Capabilities Index (BCI)
• Gender Equity Index (GEI)

• III SW INDEXES

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BCI Basic Capabilities Index
A synthetic index focused on the minimal or
basic capabilities essential for social
development
Indicators Under-5 mortality rate Births
attended by skilled personnel Children reaching
5th grade
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SOCIAL WATCHS BCI

• The BCI has comparative advantages in that it is
  relatively simple to calculate and inexpensive
  because it does not depend on household surveys
  to estimate levels of income.
• It is compatible with the various national and
  international statistics systems
• In addition to being an instrument for
  classifying the relative situation of countries
  or of particular sectors within a country it can
  also be used to generate time series for
  monitoring situations related to poverty.

• III SW INDEXES

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SOCIAL WATCHS BCI

• Several tests show that the index gives an
  adequate synthesis of the dimensions studied by
  Social Watch in the thematic tables
• A countrys ranking on the BCI scale is similar
  to the ranking given by its average performance
  for each thematic area. The correlation between
  the BCI and this ranking was 0.9.
• There is also a high correlation with other
  indicators and indexes that are generally used to
  measure development the Human Development Index
  and The Human Poverty Index.

• III SW INDEXES

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RESULTS SOCIAL WATCHS BCI RANKING
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Basic Capability Index

• III SW INDEXES

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GEIGender Equity Index
A synthetic index for the analysis of gender
equity. The Gender Equity Index (GEI) has been
produced by Social Watch since 2004 and was
subsequently revised and improved with the aim of
developing a tool to capture the degree of gender
equity prevailing in a country. The index is
built up from internationally available
information on dimensions that affect gender
equity.Within each dimension the gap between
women and men in each of the indexs indicators
is calculated thus making it possible to evaluate
how far each country currently is from an optimum
situation in which there are no gender gaps at
all.Gaps measured Education Economic
Empowerment
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Indicators by Dimension

• Empowerment
• of women in technical positions
• of women in management and government positions
  
• of women in parliament, of women in
  ministerial posts
• Economic activity
• income gaps
• Activity ratio gap
• Education
• literacy rate gap
• primary school enrolment rate gap
• secondary school enrolment rate gap
• tertiary education enrolment rate gap

• III SW INDEXES

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RESULTS SOCIAL WATCHS GEI RANKING
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Gender Equity Index

• III SW INDEXES