Leveraging Administrative Data for Policy and Programmatic Interventions on Gender Specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Un Women

doi:10.7176/ppar/10-8-03

Abstract

Leveraging Administrative Data for Policy and Programmatic Interventions on Gender Specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Highlights

2.0 Methodology These good and promising practices have been documented from the study on examining the potential of administrative data to produce gender statistics for monitoring gender-specific Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators and to present best practices in the use of gender statistics generated from administrative data for policy interventions. This compendium presents select country case studies of good and promising practices in use of gender statistics generated from administrative data for policy and programme interventions as they relate to gender specific SDGs
4.0 Conclusion The best practices case studies indicate that efforts are being made to enhance administrative data quality by improving data production practices, as Ethiopia’s National Guidelines on Administrative Data Management and Tanzania’s digitization of the birth registration process demonstrate
The study countries have used and continue to use a range of gender statistics produced from various types of administrative data to monitor gender equality and women’s empowerment and to design policies and programmes to enhance the status of women

Summary

Good and Promising Practice 2

Tanzania In line with Tanzania’s constitution, its Vision 2025 stipulates equality of men and women, and recognizes gender www.iiste.org equality and the empowerment of women in all socioeconomic and political relations and cultures as one of the strategies to attain this vision. Tanzania’s current five-year development plan (2016/17–2020/21) emphasizes women’s economic empowerment as a means of bringing about equality in economic empowerment. To ensure that these frameworks are well implemented, the Tanzania Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children has been charged with coordinating and providing guidance for mainstreaming gender in all development processes. Interventions such as gender-responsive budgeting and the Southern African Development Community Protocol on Gender and Development, which calls for 50/50 representation on all decision-making organs, are being implemented to ensure gender balance and increase women’s ability to contribute to overall national socioeconomic transformation. Interventions are in place to combat the low participation of women in economic activities and increase women’s economic empowerment, reduce gender income inequality and end child marriage and early pregnancy by 2021

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Findings

Good and Promising Practice 6