The 6th AGSF aims to bring together users, producers and experts in policy analysis and gender statistics across Africa to share the latest innovations and best practices related to gender statistics and engage in policy dialogues.
It will create an opportunity to link gender statistics financing for accelerated progress towards GEWE to the upcoming 4th international conference on financing for development in 2025 as well as a follow up to the Addis Ababa action agenda. It also aims to make better use of limited resources and time, through sharing best practices and developing common strategies to rationalise, harmonize and improve the measurement and use of gender statistics in Africa. The specific objectives include to:
- Take stock of Africa’s progress and gender perceptions in the Addis Ababa declaration on population and development, Addis Ababa action agenda, and the 3rd Africa Program on Gender Statistics at regional, subregional, and country levels.
- Provide input to the report of the ninth session of the Statistical Commission for Africa scheduled in October 2024.
- Present/disseminate the latest methodological developments and best practices in the production, dissemination, and use of gender statistics.
To this end, the forum will cover various areas of gender statistics, including (i) Financing gender statistics, (ii) gender in trade statistics; (iii) Africa Gender Index; (iv) gender data in fragile states, countries in transition, humanitarian settings (v) gender and education statistics in Africa; and (vi) Building a common agenda for gender statistics in Africa, including review of progress of the AGGES and ways forwards. Country participants will have bilateral short working sessions with UN Women Resource Mobilisation and partnership specialist to support their fundraising initiatives.
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