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REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE MDGS

Briefing for Gender Equity CoP Kaushal Joshi and Susann Roth

August 30, 2012

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The conference outline

Discussed were results-based approaches in public sector management (PSM) to improve delivery of services and to achieve national goals and MDGs.

Highlighted was the mixed performance on MDG 3 (Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) and other key MDGs which are closely linked to achieving gender equality (e.g. MDG 5).
Two parallel session were held relevant to gender: Sharing the purse strings: budgeting for gender equality Numbers tell HERstory: Why gender statistics is important to monitor the progress in achieving MDGs

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Better targeted development plans are needed

National Gender Equality Goals formulated
Plan for Development Results for Men and Women

Evaluate Results

We need indicators for planning, budgeting and monitoring!

Budget for Results

Monitor Results

Implement for Results

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Recommendation from the conference (1)

Collaboration with other ADB departments and CoPs Collaboration of specialists with different expertise working on gender mainstreaming (e.g. PSM) can enhance the quality of capacity development provided to DMCs.

Capacity development on gender mainstreaming for Government officials from planning units and Ministries of Finance Capacity development should be provided not only to EAs/IAs and National Womens Machineries, but also to Ministry of Finance and Planning Units to enable greater awareness and responsiveness towards gender sensitive national planning and budgeting as part of wider PSM reform.

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Recommendation from the conference (2)

Strengthen collaboration with UNESCAP and UNDP on capacity development of National Statistical Offices (collection, analysis, dissemination of sex-disaggregated data) ADB also needs to stay involved in the post 2015 development agenda and in the UN Inter-Agency Expert Group on Gender Statistics to support the mainstreaming of gender in the newly formulated development agenda.

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Regional Conference on Gender Statistics

Towards Inclusive Growth: Planning for equitable development results for women and men in Central and West Asia, UN CC, Bangkok, Oct 10- 11
Learning objectives Enhanced knowledge and appreciation of gender statistics and its links to development planning; Increased familiarity of strategies for promoting demand and use of gender statistics in national planning systems; Improved awareness of international standards and country initiatives on gender statistics; and Learned methods and strategies for communicating gender data.

Target audience Government officials of national statistics offices (NSO), national womens machineries, and planning ministries from Central, West Asia and Caucasus
Resource persons Bonnie Berstroem, President, Liberala Kvinnor, (Liberal Women of Sweden) Professor Stephan Klasen, University of Goettingen (Member UN Committee for Development Policy) Mara Pazos, Director of Research, Institute for Fiscal Studies (Ministry of Finance, Spain) GENDER & DEVELOPMENT - GETTING THE BALANCE RIGHT!

THANK YOU!

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Central, West Asia and the Caucasus

Legislative Framework for Gender Statistics is needed

Kyrgyz Republic Turkmenistan Afghanistan Kazakhstan

The statistics act explicitly calls for the production of gender statistics. Another act explicitly calls for the production of gender statistics. Gender equality plan requires statistics. The statistical strategy includes the provision of gender statistics. A national framework of gender indicators exists.

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Uzbekistan

Azerbaijan

Tajikistan

Armenia

Pakistan

Georgia