ECLAC moves towards Caribbean gender equality
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| Published on Friday, October 3, 2008 |
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Representatives from National Machineries for the Advancement of Women/Gender Affairs and National Statistical Offices from six Caribbean countries including Barbados, Jamaica, St. Lucia and Suriname will be participating in a technical meeting on the establishment of a Gender Equality Observatory in the Caribbean on 6-7 October 2008, at the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
The purpose of the technical meeting, which is being convened by ECLAC’s Division for Gender Affairs and the Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, is to strengthen the relationship between users and producers of gender statistics and define the basic set of indicators necessary for the functioning of the Gender Equality Observatory in the English-speaking Caribbean.
Its overall goal will be to assist in the fulfilment of gender equality goals and targets in the Caribbean and increase their visibility by making available to governments strategic gender indicators and analytical tools for policymaking and the provision of ongoing monitoring on issues that are important in improving gender equality goals, programming and policy, including the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals.
Funding support for the project is provided by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and the Ibero-American Secretariat (SEGIB), pursuant to section 2 of the Quito Consensus.
ECLAC Sub-regional Headquarters for the Caribbean has spearheaded a number of activities to generate social statistical databases, in keeping with the mandate of the Beijing Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women to generate and disseminate sex-disaggregated data and information for planning and evaluation.
It supports statisticians and other producers of statistics at the national level in their quest to produce more accurate and relevant statistics, and in so doing contribute more substantively to policy making, mainly through research, and technical and advisory services. | | | | Reads : 236 |
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