Demographic and Social Statistics

The 19th Meeting of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics (IAEG-GS) will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 30 September 2025. The meeting, which is closed and by invitation only, will be attended by gender statistics experts representing international, regional, and national institutions that are part of the IAEG-GS. The meeting will review the progress of the IAEG-GS Advisory Group in responding to the Statistical Commission's request to integrate a gender perspective into its work, including ongoing initiatives to mainstream a gender perspective into climate change statistics. It will also showcase national efforts to close data gaps in monitoring gender equality and feature updates from Regional Commissions and international agencies on their current initiatives to strengthen gender statistics.

• Agenda
• Report

IAEG-GS Chair: Mr. Solly Molayi, Acting Deputy Director-General, Population and Social Statistics, Statistics South Africa

• Opening
• Mr. Solly Molayi, Acting Deputy Director General, Population and Social Statistics, Statistics South Africa
• Ms. Francesca Grum, Assistant Director and Chief of Branch, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)
• Session 1. Mainstreaming a gender perspective into the work of the Statistical Commission
• Chair: Ms. Francesca Grum, Assistant Director and Chief of Branch, UNSD
• Gender in agenda items of the 56th session of the UN Statistical Commission  
  Ms. Maria Isabel Cobos, Chief of Social and Gender Statistics Section, UNSD   pdf   56SC Highlights
• Mainstreaming gender into climate change statistics  
  Ms. Diana Isabel Osorio Cuevas, Advisor and Coordinator of the Differential and Intersectional Approach Group, Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (DANE), Colombia   pdf
• Progress on mainstreaming gender in business and trade statistics  
  Mr. Gerardo Durand, Task Team on Business Dynamics, Business Demography, and Entrepreneurship   pdf
• Session 2. Countries in focus
• Chair: Ms. Iliana Vaca Trigo, Statistician, UNSD
• Gender Equality Barometer results  
  Ms. Marjut Pietilainen, Senior Researcher, Statistics Finland   pdf
• Statistics on gender and life cycle  
  Ms. Gulmira Karaulova, Bureau of national statistics Agency for Strategic planning and reforms Kazakhstan   pdf
• Gender and migration statistics  
  Ms. Aurelia Spataru, Deputy Director, National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova   pdf
• Statistics on financial inclusion of women in South Africa  
  Mr. Solly Molayi, Acting Deputy Director-General, Population and Social Statistics, Statistics South Africa   pdf
• Session 3. Violence against women
• Chair: Mr. Solly Molayi, Acting Deputy Director-General, Population and Social Statistics, Statistics South Africa
• Discrimination and violence against women and girls  
  Ms. Bouchra Bouziani, Head of Social Statistics Unit, Gender Focal Point, High Commission for Planning, Morocco   pdf
• Updates on the new VAW estimates for SDG indicators 5.2.1 and 5.2.2.  
  Ms. LynnMarie Sardinha, Technical Officer, World Health Organization (WHO)   pdf
• Technology-facilitated VAW  
  Mr. Papa Seck, Chief of the Research and Data Section, UN-Women; Ms. Mariam A. Khan, UNFPA Representative to Turkiye, and Country Director for Azerbaijan and Georgia; and Ms. LynnMarie Sardinha, Technical Officer, World Health Organization   pdf
• Violence and Harassment at work  
  Ms. Andonirina Rakotonarivo, Statistician, ILO   pdf
• Session 4. Looking back and looking forward - a regional lens to the evolution of gender statistics at Beijing+30 and beyond
• Chair: Ms. Maria Isabel Cobos, Chief of Social and Gender Statistics Section, UNSD
• Speakers:
• Mr. Andres Vikat, Chief of the Social and Demographic Statistics Section, ECE
• Ms. Petra Nahmias, Chief of the Population and Social Statistics Section, ESCAP
• Mr. Mustafa Khawaja, Head of Statistical Policies and Coordination Unit, ESCWA
• Ms. Lucia Scuro, Senior Gender Affairs Officer, Gender Affairs Division, ECLAC
• Ms. Fatouma Sissoko, Statistician, African Centre for Statistics, ECA
• Session 5. Updates from custodian agencies
• Chair: Mr. Solly Molayi, Acting Deputy Director-General, Population and Social Statistics, Statistics South Africa
• Measuring gender data capacity  
  Ms. Sophie Kenneally, Policy Analyst - Gender Statistics, PARIS 21 and Mr. Papa Seck, Chief of the Research and Data Section, UN-Women on Measuring gender data capacity   pdf
• Methodological updates  
  Ms. Mariam A. Khan, UNFPA Representative to Turkiye, and Country Director for Azerbaijan and Georgia   pdf
• Gender disaggregated indicators  
  Ms. Marie-Claire Sodergren, Data Production and Analysis Unit, ILO   pdf
• Methodological developments in political participation statistics  
  Ms. Ionica Berevoescu, Statistician, UN-Women; Ms. Julie Ballington, Global Policy Advisor, UN-Women   pdf
• World Bank gender data programs  
  Ms. Anna Bonfert, Economist, World Bank   pdf
• Implementation of the statistical framework for measuring femicide and classification of trafficking in persons  
  Ms. Adriana Oropeza Lliteras, Programme Management Officer, UNODC   pdf
• Session 6. Conclusions of the 19th meeting and way forward
• Ms. Francesca Grum, Assistant Director and Chief of Branch, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)   pdf
• Mr. Gogita Todradze, Executive Director of the National Statistics Office of Georgia