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Measuring, Managing and Evaluating Gender Equality
Stockholm, Sweden
20 November, 2008
From Numbers to Dialogue: The GID
Database and Wikigender
Denis DrechslerEconomist
OECD Development Centre
OECD Development Centre
From Numbers to Dialogue – The GID Database and Wikigender
From Numbers to Dialogue
Title of Conference
11 Raising awareness on gender equalityRaising awareness on gender equality
The OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Data BaseThe OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base22
33 WikigenderWikigender
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44 ConclusionsConclusions
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Raising Awareness on Gender Equality
• Research, studies, and reports…
• …to inform key actors and opinion-makers…
• …and allow mutual learning and peer pressure
• Power of statistics and indicators
• Importance of a bottom-up dialogue
Initiating a Bottom-up Dialogue on Gender Statistics
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The OECD Data Base on Gender
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Data on Social Institutions
GID-DBThe OECD Gender,
Institutions and Development Data
Base
…and its innovation:
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12 Innovative New Variables
Social Institutions
• Early marriage
• Polygamy
• Parental authority
• Inheritance
• Freedom ofmovement
• Freedom of dress
• Female genital mutilation
• Violence against women
• Missing women
• Access to land
• Access to credit
• Access toproperty
Ownership RightsCivil LibertiesPhysical IntegrityFamily Code
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How do Social Institutions Fit in?
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Political Empowerment
EducationalAttainment
Health and Wellbeing
SocialInstitutions
Economic Participation
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Gender Inequality in Social Institutions
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Elevated discrimination in social institutionsHigh discrimination in social institutions
Low discrimination in social institutionsCountry not included
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Social Institutions and Women’s Empowerment
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ZWE
ZMB
YEM
VNM
VEN
URYUSAGBR
UAE
UKR
UGA
TUR
TUN
TGO
THA
TZA
SYR
CHE
SWE
SDN
LKAESP ZAF
SVK
SEN
SAU
RUS
ROUPRTPOL
PHL
PER
PRYPAN
PAK
OMN
NOR
NGA
NER
NIC
NZL
NLD
NPL
NAM
MMR
MOZ
MAR
MEXMUSMRT
MLTMLI
MYS
MWI
MDG
LUX
LBY
LBNKWT
KORKEN
JOR
JPNITA
ISRIRL
IRN
IDN
IND
ISL
HUN
HND
HTI
GNB
GRC
GHA
DEUFRA
FIN
FJI
ETH
EST
ERI
GNQ
SLV
EGY
ECU
DOM
DNKCZE
CUB
CIV
CRI
COL
CHNCHL
TCD
CAF
CAN
CMR
BFA
BGR
BRA BWA
BOL
BENBEL
BGD
BHR
AUT
AUSARMARG
AGO
DZA
ALB
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40
60
0 .2 .4 .6 .8Institutions
Fitted values WWORKING (non-agri %)
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GID: Important for Donor and Partner Countries
What do the indicators tell us?
Country Overall Score Possible Focus
Philippines 0.0016 [1] --
El Salvador 0.0017 [2] --
Paraguay 0.0018 [3] --
Malaysia 0.094 [47] Civil Liberties (0.5 [84])
Congo, DR 0.190 [64] Ownership Rights (0.833 [94])
Sudan 0.715 [98]Civil liberties (1 [98]), Ownership rights (1 [98]), Physical Integrity (0.825 [96]), Family Code (0.715 [91])
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GID: Latest Developments
• Creation of country notes• Update of indicators, including a time dimension• New graphical features• Design of a composite index• In-depth country case studies
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Wikigender (a)
• A community tool to promote gender equality
• Resource to find information on statistics, country reports and actors in the area of gender equality
• Open to inputs from external users: discuss and comment; post and draft
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Wikigender (b)
• Combining a bottom-up with a top-down approach
• 3-tiers: (i) unregistered users can read, (ii) registered users can edit and (iii) partners can protect content
• Quality control: The Development Centre ensures quality of information with “Official Source” label
• Community: Wikigender is open for external partners to manage and maintain the site
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Broad Coverage of Countries
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Detailed Country Notes…
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…with additional insights
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…and discussion
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Conclusions
• Informed policy making requires high-quality statistics• Traditional sources of data are often insufficient
– Timeliness, Scope, Quality• New actors need to be involved in data collection and
dissemination• Bottom-up approach promises better information and
more civic engagement for needed reforms• New Wikigender and improved GID Database 2009
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For more information:
Stockholm, Sweden
20 November, 2008
From Numbers to Dialogue: The GID
Database and Wikigender
www.oecd.org/dev/gender
www.wikigender.org