EDGE Project Midterm Review Technical Meeting

3-5 December 2014 Kitakyushu-city, Japan

The UN Statistics Division and the UN Women, in collaboration with the Kitakyushu Forum on Asian Women (KFAW), organized a Mid-term Review Technical Meeting of the Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) initiative. Standing at the mid-point of the project, the meeting took stock of progress made by the EDGE initiative to date since its inception in 2013.

Main Documents

Presentations

Session 2 Evidence and Data for Gender Equality Overview - UN Women
Session 3 Methodological Survey Experiment on Measuring Asset Ownership (MEXA) Overview and questionnaire construction - UNSD
Session 4 Lessons learned from MEXA: field operations - UBoS, World Bank
Session 5 Findings from the Methodological Survey Experiment on Measuring Asset Ownership from a Gender Perspective - World Bank
Session 6 Group Discussion: implications of MEXA for Pilot Countries
Session 7 EDGE draft methodology on measuring entrepreneurship from a gender perspective: defining entrepreneurship - UNSD
Session 8 New international standards on measuring work and employment - ILO
Session 9 EDGE draft methodology on measuring entrepreneurship from a gender perspective: conceptual framework and key indicators - UNSD
Session 10 EDGE draft methodology on measuring entrepreneurship from a gender perspective: data collection strategies - UNSD
Session 11 MEXA entrepreneurship - UNSD
Session 12 EDGE draft methodology on measuring entrepreneurship from a gender perspective: assessment of proposed methodology - UNSD, All