26-27 February 2020
Conference Room 4, United Nations HQ, New York
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The 2030 Agenda pledges to leave no one behind and to ensure that the SDGs are met for all. Leaving no one behind means that the benefits of sustainable development reach everyone. But women and girls who experience multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination are often the furthest behind.
In order to truly leave no one behind and address how gender intersects with other inequalities, we need data to be disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics. But data disaggregation alone is not enough – the specific needs of the most marginalized populations need to be identified, and measured, so that they can inform political discourse and spark necessary change.
Counted and Visible: The global conference on the measurement of gender and intersecting inequalities will create a common understanding among data users and producers on how to measure intersecting inequalities from a gender perspective in order to ‘leave no one behind.’ It will contribute to current work on data disaggregation to better inform policies and advocacy on gender equality and women’s empowerment. The conference will also be a space for dialogue on gender and intersectionality, to have a better understanding on the needs of the most marginalized groups.
Speakers and participants: Staff from UN Agencies, government officials, leaders from private foundations and civil society organizations, feminist researchers and economists.
Organizers: UN Women, in collaboration with the UN Statistics Division
Agenda
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
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Opening remarks will be delivered by the Conference co-hosts, UN Women and UN Statistics Division
- Papa Seck (UN Women) and Stefan Schweinfest (UNSD)
This session will aim to develop a common understanding of what ‘gender’, ‘intersectionality’ and ‘Leave no one behind’ means for measuring and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Sandra Fredman (Oxford University) - remotely Presentation
- Nicolas Fasel (OHCHR) Presentation
- Leesha Delatie-Budair (Statistical Institute of Jamaica)
- Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan (Gates Foundation) Presentation
- Patrik Andersson (UN ESCAP) Presentation
- Moderator: Janet Gornick (CUNY, Graduate Center)
This session will explore how data systems and data collection, analysis and dissemination mechanisms are currently set up to prioritize the measurement and reporting of challenges that marginalized groups face, exchange best practices and current limitations of data systems to measure gender, intersectionality and LNOB.
- Ola Awad (Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics)
- Fridah Githuku (GROOTS Kenya)
- Claire Dennis Mapa (Philippines Statistics Authority)
- Mark Hereward (UNICEF)
- Moderator: Margarita Guerrero
This session will be broken into 4 parallel sessions focusing on different vulnerable groups that are traditionally rendered invisible in official statistics. Each session will allow for sharing of country experiences on how to improve data availability on vulnerable populations, analysing challenges, opportunities and good practices.
- Women with Disabilities
Conference Room D – Secretariat Building- Claudia Cappa (UNICEF) Presentation
- Elizabeth Lockwood (CBM International) Presentation
- Heidi Berner Herrera (Chile) Presentation
- Babacar Ndir (Senegal) Presentation
- Moderator: Neda Jafar (UNESCWA)
- Age and Gender
Conference Room E, First Basement- Karoline Schmid (Population Division DESA) Presentation
- Isabella Schmidt (UN Women) Presentation
- Lauren Pandolfelli (UNICEF) Presentation
- Moderator: Verity McGivern (HelpAge International)
- Migrants, refugees and displaced persons
Conference Room F, First Basement- Qasem Al-zoubi (Department of Statistics of Jordan )Presentation
- Aurelia Spataru (National Statistics Office, Republic of Moldova ) Presentation
- Oscar Ivan Rico Valencia (Victim Unit, Colombia)Presentation
- Clare Menozzi (UN Population Division)Presentation
- Moderator: Vibeke Nielsen (UNSD)
- Multidimensional poverty
Conference Room B, Secretariat Building- Agnes Quisumbing (IFPRI) Presentation
- Antra Bhatt (UN Women) and Sara Duerto Valero (UN Women) Presentation
- Alejandro García Navarrete (INEGI) Presentation
- Joanne Crawford (International Women’s Development Agency) Presentation [ Video]
- Enrique Delamónica (UNICEF) Presentation
- Moderator: Pedro Conceição (Human Development Report Office, UNDP)
Moderators from the parallel sessions will report back into plenary and open it up to discuss other types of intersecting inequalities not covered, where data is also scare (i.e. race and ethnicity, urban/rural, employment, indigenous groups, individuals with diverse gender identity etc.) Knowing these gaps: how can we operationalize LNOB in data collection and data analysis?
- Neda Jafar (UNESCWA)
- Verity McGivern (HelpAge International)
- Vibeke Nielsen (UNSD)
- Pedro Conceição (Human Development Report Office, UNDP)
- Moderator: Haoyi Chen (Intersecretariat Working Group on Household Surveys, UNSD)
Thursday, 27 February 2020
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This session will explore the opportunities and challenges of gender data disaggregation using different data sources including DHS, Census, administrative data, household surveys etc.
- Juan Daniel Oviedo Arango (DANE, Colombia)Presentation
- Talip Kilic (World Bank) and Heather Moylan (World Bank) Presentation
- Ariunzaya Ayush (National Statistics Office of Mongolia) and Jessamyn Encarnacion (UN Women) Presentation
- Arturo Martinez (Asian Development Bank) Presentation
- Tara Cookson (Ladysmith) Presentation
- Moderator: Francesca Grum (UNSD)
This session will aim to explore if there a role for non-official data producers to help fill current data gaps. What needs to happen to ensure that alternative and complementary gender data sources, including qualitative evidence, become a tool for accountability.
- Claudia Wells (Development Initiaitves) Presentation
- Albert Motivans (Equal Measures 2030) Presentation
- Céline Jacquin (INEGI) Presentation
- Moderator: Emily Courey Pryor (Data2X) Presentation
In keeping with the human rights principle of ‘do no harm’, data collection exercises should not create or reinforce discrimination, bias or stereotypes against population groups, and objections by these groups should be taken seriously by data producers. How can privacy, confidentiality and data protection be ensured and how can legal frameworks help, particularly in the Digital Era (i.e. Big Data, AI, GIS etc)?
- Robert Kirkpatrick (UN Global Pulse)
- Joseph Cannataci (UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy, OHCHR)
- Shaida Badiee (Open Data Watch)Presentation
- Nnnena Nwakanma (World Wide Web Foundation)
- Joy Rankin (NYU AI Now Institute, New York University)
- Moderator: Serge Kapto (UNDP)
This session will highlight “stories of change”- examples of how data on gender and intersecting inequalities can be strategically used to inform policies and advocacy on gender equality. What led to success? Is an intersectional perspective also needed when advocating for policy change?
- Dominique Favre (Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations)
- Ekaterine Skhiladze (Office of the Ombudsman, Georgia)
- Zachary Mwangi Chege (Kenya National Bureau of Statistics)
- Papa Seck (UN Women)
- Miya Ishitsuka and Yoshitaka Hojo (City Government of Mito, Japan) Presentation
- Moderator: Amy Lieberman (Devex)
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