Gender-sensitive pro-poor indicators of good governance

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Gender-sensitive pro-poor indicators of good
governance

• Lorraine Corner

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Outline

• The Problem
• Indicators of Good Governance
• Gender-sensitive indicators
• Pro-poor indicators
• Global actions needed
• Country-level actions
• National
• Local

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Existing governance indicators

• Not gender-sensitive
• Not pro-poor
• Little used by countries
• Little used - by or on behalf of women or the poor

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General Comments

• Primary focus on governance processes inputs /
  outputs specific to those
• Maximize existing data esp administrative data
• Indicators offer (some) power
• Selection critical involve women poor
• What stage? G1
• Start local, go national
• Start national, go global
• For what?
• Participation
• Advocacy

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Gender-sensitive indicators

• Disaggregated
• by sex - W M are different
• Other relevant variables not all W are the same
• Use data collected, presented, analysed thru
  engendered processes, reflect womens
  experiences
• Address
• gender issues relations between women men
  eg VAW, property rights
• womens priorities concerns
• Women participate in data collection,
  interpretation and use of indicators

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Pro-poor indicators

• Disaggregated by
• socio-economic status to identify poor
  vulnerable
• by sex poor W M are different
• Address priorities concerns of the poor
• Poor or pro-poor groups participate in data
  collection interpretation use of indicators

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Some global action needed

• Global norms standards set minimum country
  standards
• Global opportunities
• 2010 census round
• Role of UN agencies in data collection
• UNICEF, UNFPA (DHS)
• WHO, ILO (LFS)
• World Bank (LSMS)
• MDGs

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Actions at country level

• National
• G1 - Disaggregation esp admin data, service
  statistics
• By sex
• By relevant socio-economic variables
• G2 - Engender current data processes
• G1 2 Transparency - Data access FOI
  legislation
• Local
• G2 G3 time use, service delivery surveys
• Capacity building for womens groups/ NGOs
• Indicators for accountability
• Indicators for policy advocacy