Global Calendar of Statistical Events

Description: Gender equality is a fundamental principle embedded within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is not only a standalone goal (SDG 5Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls) but also a crosscutting topic that influences the achievement of the goals of the 2030 development agenda.High qualitytimelycomparableand disaggregated gender data provide the evidence needed to measure progress towards achieving the gender-related SDG goals and targets. Such data are also indispensable in identifying gapsinforming policy decisions and implementing effective interventions. Some countries in Asia and the Pacific have made substantial progress to set up enabling environments for gender data and producing related statistics. Howeverchallenges remain regarding the uptake of gender data either linked to gender data accessibility (opennessdissemination and NSO engagement with partners and stakeholders across the government and beyond) or to data literacy and documentary evidence of data use. According to the UN Women and Paris21 Gender Data Outlook (GDO) Indexmultiple countries in Asia could improve in this regard. In the PacificGDO data are not available for most countries.

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Description: To understand gender-environment-climate change nexus issues, inform related policies, and support monitoring and accountability processes, it is critical to ensure related data is available, comparable and timely. Over the years, the international statistical community has advanced the development of indicator sets, metadata and data collection tools to support Member States in the production of related statistics. Existing relevant frameworks that include indicators on the intersections between gender, environment and climate change include, for instance, the Sendai Framework, the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators, the Asia-Pacific Set of Gender-Environment Indicators, the 100 Gender and Environment Indicator Set, and the Sustainable Development Goals Monitoring Framework. ESCAP and UN Women are organizing a regional workshop on gender, environment and climate change statistics. The dialogue will bring together data producers and data users from across the region, to share experiences on the measurement of the nexus, and learn from others about potential solutions to fill related data gaps, enhance reporting towards global environmental commitments, and promote the use of these data for gender analysis, national policy design and monitoring of implementation. The agenda of the workshop can be found in concept note.

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Description: This international meeting aims to bridge the gaps in gender health data and focus on strengthening and standardizing birth and death records, informing effective health policymaking, and ultimately enhancing public health outcomes worldwide through a gender equitable approach. ESCAP SD will join nearly 50 other leaders and partners from diverse sectors and regions to discuss the progress made, share insights, and develop actionable strategies to close gender data gaps and create more equitable health systems by 2030.

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Description: The overall objective of this technical assistance is to improve the technical capacity of staff and management of the Department of Gender Affairs, the Department of Statistics, and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Government of Turks and Caicos Islands to collect, analyze, utilize and disseminate sex-disaggregated data in accordance with international standards and best practices.

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Description: The WHO/UNICEF JMP, in collaboration with Emory University, presents priority gender-specific indicators for enhanced monitoring of SDG WASH targets identified through a multi-stakeholder expert review. This webinar will briefly introduce the priority indicators, present emerging data on gender inequalities in WASH, and discuss opportunities for integrating gender-specific indicators into national and global monitoring of WASH.

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Description: The event served as a platform for policy advocacy based on findings from key initiatives aimed at improving Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) and leveraging CRVS-related evidence to inform gender-sensitive policies in Fiji. The report of the Assessment, Analysis & Redesign of Civil Registration & Vital Statistics (CRVS) Processes in Fiji as well as two policy briefs (i) An Intersectional Profile of Adolescent Pregnancy and Motherhood in Fiji were disseminated to key stakeholders and (ii) Target Groups for Addressing Disparities in On-Time Birth Registration were disseminated to national stakeholders, including the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Health & Medical Services, the Fiji Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs, the Ministry of Women, Children & Social Protection as well as other national agencies and development partners. The event was attended by the Minister of Justice, Hon. Siromi Turaga. Preparations towards the Third Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific, to be held from 24 to 26 June 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand, were also launched in the presence of the honorable Minister of Justice. The event highlighted significant advancements and set the stage for continued progress in CRVS and gender-sensitive policy-making in Fiji. Report: Assessment, Analysis and Redesign of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Processes in Fiji Policy Brief: Adolescent Pregnancy and Motherhood in Fiji Policy Brief: Addressing Disparities in On-Time Birth Registration       , HOME - Project: CRVS E2A for Gender Policy Project countries: Bangladesh Fiji Events

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Description: The overall objective of this technical assistance is to improve the technical capacity of staff and management of the Department of Gender Affairs, the Department of Statistics, and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Government of Turks and Caicos Islands to collect, analyze, utilize and disseminate sex-disaggregated data in accordance with international standards and best practices.

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Description: This regional training introduces crime statistics from a gender perspective to produce reliable indicators to monitor the relevant SDGs (SDGs 5 and 16). The training provides an opportunity for participants to learn about gender concepts and frameworks on SDG indicators relevant to crime and criminal justice statistics including gender-based SDG targetswith the overall aim of strengthening regional capacity in producing high-quality SDG indicator data and overall statisticsto inform policy decisions at national and international levels.

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Description: In a survey experiment conducted in El Salvador, we explore whether alternative survey methods can alleviate the underreporting of women's and young men'slabor market outcomes, thus enhancing the measurement of gender- and age-based gaps. We compare two alternative methods—a List of Activities survey module (LOA) and enforced self-responses (ESR)—with a traditional household survey, which relies on proxy responses without an LOA module. Our findings reveal significant differences. The inclusion of the LOA module leads to higher reported work and employment rates for the average respondent compared to the standard household survey. Notably, the reported work gap between men and women decreases when using the LOA module. Furthermore, employing ESR reduces the age gap for male respondents' employment and work rates. Our research underscores the impact of peer examples of informal employment and social norms regarding domestic obligations on these outcomes. This study offers valuable insights into the potential of alternative survey methodologies to provide more accurate representations of labor market dynamics and address gender and age disparities in employment. 

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Description: The objective is to enable participants: * To have an understanding of the range of techniques which make up a cognitive interview; * To have increased their own ability to do cognitive interviewing; * To have insight into selecting and recruiting respondents; * To have insight into analysing cognitive interview data and creating better survey questions; * To have awareness of a broad range of uses for cognitive interviewing; * To have awareness of the contribution of cognitive interviewing in comparison to other testing methods; * To understand how cognitive interviewing can improve questionnaires on gender topics and thus the associated social statistics.

Target Audience: The course is targeted at NSI methodologists and social scientists whose work involves conducting surveys

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Description: For this Global Network Webinar, we were pleased to welcome Francesca Perucci, Jahanara Saeed, and Deirdre Appel from Open Data Watch who presented on Advancing National Data Systems with the Gender Data Compass. As a compass helps travelers orient themselves, the Gender Data Compass (GDC) is a guide for national statistical offices (NSOs), other government agencies, development practitioners, and donors seeking to build robust, inclusive, and effective gender data systems. It has five cardinal points: gender data availability, gender data openness, institutional foundations, technical and statistical capacity, and financing. The results of the first round of Gender Data Compass reveal a stark reality: many countries face significant challenges in producing the necessary gender indicators for informed policymaking and monitoring progress towards equitable and sustainable development. Despite these challenges, the Gender Data Compass offers a roadmap of recommendations and solutions to overcome them. Specifically, this webinar presented the Gender Data Compass and offered ways in which countries can use this research to improve and strengthen their own gender data systems. For more information on the Gender Data Compass please visit: https://gdc.opendatawatch.com/

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Half-way through the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and despite improvements, critical gender data gaps still exist across the SDGs in terms of geographic coverage, timeliness and the level of disaggregation required. Intensified efforts need to be made to fill those gaps. The Agenda 2030 asks that follow-up and review processes at all levels should be open, inclusive, participatory and transparent for all people and support the reporting by all relevant stakeholders. Therefore, the successful as well as gender-sensitive implementation and monitoring of the Agenda needs the engagement of citizens, with particular attention to the voices of the poorest and most vulnerable – more often, women and girls.

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Description: Follow the launch of the groundbreaking report measuring the impacts of climate change on rural poor, women and youth

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Description: In this webinar, Ginette Azcona and Antra Bhatt of UN Women will share data and insights from the Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The SDG Gender Snapshot 2023 Report. The presentation will cover key insights from UN Women and UNDESA’s Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The SDG Gender Snapshot 2023 Report which provides a comprehensive analysis of gender equality progress across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year’s report shows that halfway to the end point of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the world is failing to achieve gender equality, making it an increasingly distant goal. If current trends continue, more than 340 million women and girls will still live in extreme poverty by 2030, and close to one in four will experience moderate or severe food insecurity. Growing vulnerability brought on by human-induced climate change is likely to worsen this outlook, as many as 236 million more women and girls will be food-insecure under a worst-case climate scenario. The presentation will discuss these key findings as well as present data and insights on all 17 SDGs and also focus on the need for an integrated, holistic approach to advancing gender equality, involving multistakeholder collaboration and sustained financial backing including through costing of SDG 5.

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Description: The Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) event is the soft launch of a streamlined tool for measuring women’s empowerment, which is suitable for use by national statistical...

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Description: Body The need for statistics on gender-in-trade is becoming pressing as governments strive to develop gender-responsive trade policies. The Regional Workshop will focus on the importance of collecting and utilising gender-in-trade statistics to support better policymaking across the African continent. In addition, the Regional Workshop also discusses the findings obtained from six pilot countries – Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Senegal, Cameroon, and Zimbabwe – that participated in undertaking exercises in micro-linking trade and non-trade data within their countries and identify ways forward for improved data collection in gender-in-trade statistics. The objectives of this regional workshop is to: * Encourage knowledge sharing amongst statistics officers on best methods and practices to support the collation of data and statistics on gender and trade and to understand how to undertake micro-linking of non-trade and trade data. * Drawing on the findings from the African pilot case studies, discuss the long-term goal of collecting sex-disaggregated trade data and identify gaps and proposed solutions for ensuring that national statistics collection includes gender-responsive indicators across the continent. * Improve understanding of regularising and implementing long-term data collection on informal cross-border trade (ICBT) to inform evidence-based policymaking that meet the needs of informal and small-scale traders. This workshop is organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), with contributions from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). Financial support for this project was provided by United Nations Development Account.

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Description: Organised by the ISI Committee Women in Statistics (CW-ISI). Former ISI Director Ada van Krimpen is going to be the distinguished Invited Speaker of the webinar. She will discuss the proportion of women among ISI members and their role in governance. We then discuss which factors play a role in boosting the careers of female statisticians.

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Description: UNSD moderated the side event, which was organized by UN Women in collaboration with UNSD, FAO and UNHCR. Ms. Antra Bhatt, Statistics Specialist, Research and Data Section, UN Women, presented UN Women and UNSD’s joint publication Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2022 Report, emphasizing the data and indicators available and needed for monitoring the SDGs from a gender perspective as well as data gaps. The event also featured presentations by Aina Helen Saetre, Statistician, UNHCR and Sara Viviani, Statistician, FAO on the importance of disaggregating key statistics by sex and age using global datasets on gender and migration and food security, followed by a moderated Q&A. Between 60-65 participants attended the side event and discussion focused on identifying why there are continual gender data gaps in the SDGs, how to address these issues and encourage more monitoring by countries. In addition, while the data for achieving gender equality is not currently on track to be achieved by 2030, panelists noted that a positive in this area is an increase in partnerships and collaboration to increase the availability of gender data, which will hopefully lead to advances in achieving this Goal.

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Description: Official statistics with a gender perspective play a fundamental role in raising awareness and disseminating the different expressions of gender inequality in various areas of society; they also constitute a powerful instrument for decision-making based on high-quality, reliable evidence Join us next November 02 at 10:00 a.m. (EDT) to our discussion about the progress, challenges and status of the production, analysis and dissemination of official statistics with a gender perspective at a global and regional level.

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Contact: joseam@iadb.org

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Title in French: Construire de meilleures données sur le genre en Afrique : défis et perspectives

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Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC will organise an Online Training Course on ‘SDG 5 (Gender Equality) Indicators’ for the benefit of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of OIC countries on 7-8 June 2022. Ms. Aslı Aşık Yavuz, expert at the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), will conduct the course and cover the following topics: TurkStat’s Experience on Sustainable Development Indicators Introduction to SDG 5 (Gender Equality) Indicators SDG 5 Indicators of Türkiye Road Map for Unavailable SDG 5 Indicators Usage of the SDG 5 Indicators in International Reporting Other SDG 5 Reporting Possibilities and Suggestions for Türkiye The course will be conducted through a video conferencing platform by following synchronous learning and instruction approaches designed in line with the virtual training solutions undertaken by SESRIC in order to better serve the Centre’s training activities and keep participants motivated and engaged during this time of global crisis due to COVID-19. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php

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Description: The Asia-Pacific Stats Café Series on Mainstreaming Gender in Official Statistics: Practical Insights, was held virtually on 7 June 2022, 11:00-12:15 (UTC+7). Attendance summary Flyer About the session This Stats Café attempted to bring experiences from across the region on practical approaches to mainstreaming gender in official statistics. The Stats Café also launched the eLearning course on “Using Gender Data for Analysis, Communications and Policy-making in the context of SDG monitoring and beyond” developed by ESCAP, UN Women and SIAP. Background Gender equality has been increasingly recognized as essential to the process of sustainable development and for the effectiveness of national development policies and plans. Gender statistics and indicators are important tools to promote gender equality and implement a gender mainstreaming approach. The demand for gender statistics has increased over the years owing to international conventions and development goals at various levels. While the Sustainable Development Goals have a stand-alone goal to promote gender equality (Goal 5), gender has also been integrated across several of the other goals and targets to ensure effective outcomes for women and men in various aspects of development. Using data and statistics to adequately reflect differences and inequalities in the situation of women and men in all areas of life requires a strategy of mainstreaming gender in all stages of data planning, production, use and analysis. Agenda for this session Welcome remarks: Rachael Beaven, Director, Statistics Division, ESCAP Mainstreaming gender in official statistics: from concepts to practical approaches: Sara Duerto Valero, Regional Advisor on Gender Statistics, UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Mainstreaming gender in the Philippines Statistical System: Wilma A. Guillen, Assistant National Statistician, Head of the Social Sector Statistics Service, Sectoral Statistics Office of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Identifying and analyzing gender dimensions of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics using death registration data in Fiji: Meli Nadakuca, Statistician, Vital Statistics, Demography & GIS Unit, Fiji Bureau of Statistics Mainstreaming gender in statistical training: Sinovia Moonie, Statistician/ Lecturer, Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) Christophe Bontemps, Statistician/ Lecturer, Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) Moderator: Sharita Serrao, Statistician, Statistics Division, ESCAP , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events in 2021 Concluded events in 2020

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Description: Are you interested in labour market indicators, which are particularly relevant for measuring differences in the situation of women and men? Discover the latest data on the gender employment gap, that is considered to be a key social indicator for analytical purposes when studying developments in labour markets, and the gender pay gap, including the unadjusted gender pay gap used to monitor imbalances in earnings between men and women.

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Description: The online course on crime statistics from a gender perspective will highlight basic conceptsmethods and frameworks required to compile crime statistics in relation to gender and provide knowledge on the challenges and opportunities of working with different types of data sources (administrative datasample surveys).

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Description: Women account for approximately half of the estimated 270 million international migrants worldwide in 2019. Migrant women contribute massively to the overall outflow of remittances sent by immigrants from their destination countries to their countries of origin. At the same time, women earn less, have harsher working conditions and are much more vulnerable to trafficking for sexual exploitation. In spite of the needs, there are significant challenges concerning the collection, analysis and use of gender responsive data, reflecting differences and inequalities between women and men. Such data is necessary to promote a deepened understanding of migration trends, gaps, challenges and inequalities and to strengthen policies that are gender responsive. The webinar addresses the availability and use of disaggregated, gender responsive migration statistics and give examples of how data from national surveys have been utilized to highlight gender dimensions and the needs and vulnerability of female migrants. The session will include sharing of experiences from experts working in NSOs in Africa as well as the perspective from UN Women.

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Description: he report Bridging the Gap: Mapping Gender Data Availability in Asia and the Pacific traces the availability and quality of data for 98 gender-relevant indicators across key domains such as health, education, economic empowerment, political participation, human security, and environment. The study, covering five countries in Asia and the Pacific, uses a combined set of 32 SDG indicators identified by UN Women as gender-relevant, 59 SDG indicators identified by Open Data Watch as being capable of sex-disaggregation or of other gender relevance, and 7 indicators suggested by the UN Women’s publication Turning Promises into Action (2018). This Stats Café aims to celebrate the launch of the report and raise awareness about progress in gender data availability, the data needed, gaps which may exist and how these gaps may be narrowed. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events

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Description: The training will provide the opportunity for participants to review and understand key components of the Training Curriculum on Gender Statisticswhich is currently being finalized by the Subgroup on Gender Statistics Traininga subsidiary organ of the Network for the Coordination of Statistical Training in Asia and the Pacific.

Description: Within the framework of the subregional technical cooperation project: "Improvement of agricultural censuses and surveys for the calculation of the SDG indicators"

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Description: Organised by FAO, International Land Coalition, Landesa and UN-Habitat, this event will present the experience of different countries, showing how they have adopted measures to secure women’s land rights.

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Description: Recognizing the high impact of COVID-19 in the Americas and Caribbean region, UN Women is conducting rapid gender assessments (RGAs) to better understand how the COVID-19 crisis is affecting people’s lives in terms of the socio-economic impacts, distribution of care work, and access to basic goods and services. To this end, UN Women partnered with the Ministry of Women and Gender Equity (MinMujeryEG) of Chile, the National Institute of Women (INMUJERES) of Mexico, and the Presidential Council for Women's Equity (CPEM) of Colombia, to carry out RGAs in each country in 2020. During the event, results from these surveys will be presented to unpack how women and girls are being impacted by the pandemic in each of country, followed by a panel discussion on the importance of such data as complementary to official statistics, as well as a comparative overview of the three RGAs.

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Description: UN Women is collaborating with Sightsavers and partners on a special event to share what we’ve learned about producing data that includes everyone. Gathering data on people with disabilities, older people, women and girls, and other marginalized groups is important, as this helps to ensure that these groups are not left behind by development programmes. UN Women, Sightsavers, Development Initiatives and HelpAge International have been collecting, using and calling for inclusive data for several years. As we enter 2021, this online event will provide a chance to take stock of the successes and challenges that we have faced along the way. It will offer useful learnings for other organizations on how to improve their own practices, and include a Q&A with participants. The event will feature: Alex Goldsworthy, Humanitarian Programme Officer, HelpAge International Claudia Wells, Director of Data Use, Development Initiatives, UK Papa Seck, Chief Statistician and Chief, Research and Data, UN Women Munazza Gillani, country director, Sightsavers, Pakistan. Dom Haslam, Sightsavers’ Director of Policy and Programme Strategy, will be acting as moderator for the event.

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Title in Spanish: Producción y uso de estadísticas e indicadores de género

Description: La División de Asuntos de Género de la CEPAL, junto a ONU-Mujereres, y en colaboración con el Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE) de Colombia, dio inicio el día 3 de noviembre al curso Producción y uso de estadísticas e indicadores de género, orientado a profesionales pertenecientes a entidades productoras y organizaciones usuarias de estadísticas, que se realiza en el formato online entre la mencionada fecha y el 13 de diciembre. Esta edición contará con 50 participantes, en su mayoría del sector público. Se propone fortalecer conocimientos, capacidades y habilidades frente a la producción, el análisis y la utilización de las estadísticas de género en clave de la planificación, la implementación y la evaluación de políticas, así como del monitoreo de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible.

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Title in Spanish: XXI Encuentro Internacional de Estadísticas de Género (EIEG) “Los retos para la generación y uso de las estadísticas de género en contexto del COVID-19”

Description: El Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), el Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (INMUJERES), la División de Asuntos de Género de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), y la Entidad de las Naciones Unidas para la Igualdad de Género y el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres (ONU Mujeres), llevarán a cabo en el mes de septiembre, el XXI Encuentro Internacional sobre Estadísticas de Género (EIEG) denominado “Los retos para la generación y uso de las estadísticas de género en contexto del COVID-19”. El XXI EIEG se realizará mediante una serie de cuatro seminarios web.

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Description: The objective of these workshops is to promote the use of gender statistics for policymaking to ensure that no women and girls are left behind, in keeping with the commitments set out in the Regional Gender Agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The focus of these workshops will be on mapping existing data and identifying gaps in the production of gender statistics, and providing recommendations regarding the production, development, systematisation and dissemination of statistical information and gender-sensitive indicators.

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