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Measuring Governance with Pro-Poor and Gender Sensitive
Indicators:
Process flow chart as a tool for promoting gender-responsive governance & identifying
indicators
Outline
Workshop – you work!
What are gender statistics?
What are indicators & how do we use them?
Process flow chart as a tool for gender-responsive governance and indicators 2
What are gender-responsive statistics?
Reflection – 2 minutes
Write it down – 1 minute
Hold it up & share per table
Synthesis – ONE answer per table
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Key points
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Professional statistics ARE pro-poor & represent women & men equally
National statistical systems cover population
Differences considered in defining, collecting, collating & dissemination data
Different data & variables needed to represent all e.g. time use & VAW surveys more important for women Special surveys for the poor, minorities, disabled, carers,
Presenting statistics back to communities5
What are indicators?What are they used for?
Reflection – 2 minutes
Write it down – 1 minute
Hold it up & share per table
Synthesis – ONE answer per table
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NOT gender statistics / indicators
BUT
Professional statistics / indicators
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Framework for selecting governance indicators
Aim: To assist policy makers monitor & evaluate democratic governance
At country level Pro-poor
Target the poor Cope with the many dimensions of poverty
Gender sensitive – track changes in Equality between women & men, girls & boys Women, men etc in socially excluded groups Women’s empowerment so equality can be achieved 8
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Principles of democracy & normative values
Decision-making & makers Citizens
Women/men Poor/non-poor etc, minorities, excluded groups
Normative values of democratic governance Participation & representation of all kinds of
women & men
Transparency & Accountability – to different groups
Responsiveness & efficiency – to different needs Equality of outcomes for all
Suggested indicators
Citizens participation & responsibilities
Citizens equal participation
normative values of democratic governance Participation & Representation
Transparency & Accountability
Responsiveness & Efficiency
Equality of outcomes10
Three levels of indicators Begin with objective: what is to be indicated?
Outcome what do we want to achieve? How will we know we have achieved it?
Inputs What is needed to create these processes? How will we know they are available?
Process Using inputs to achieve output? How to identify best processes? How to know when & how processes need adjustment? 11
Process indicators- missing link
Input indicators – do not show how inputs are used
Output indicators do not show how outputs are achieved (or NOT achieved)
Process indicators show how inputs generate (or fail to generate) outputs
Process indicators point to problems & can suggest solutions 12
Indicators change – no perfect set
As objective is achieved, another emerges
Needs a new indicator
Indicators are basis for action
Actions to improve indicator? – make it irrelevant
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Processes are key
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Example
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Why gender-blind budgeting?
Budget processes Lack budget understanding
Supply side – local government service providers
Demand side – community – women and men’s different needs
& access
Decentralisation – responsibility without authority or sufficient
resources
Right to demand minimum services & required resources or
changes in resource disbursement
Gender blind – lack access to information
Lack sex-disaggregated data
Unaware of rights or how to use political process
Lack sex-disaggregated data
Lack of gender awarenessLack of participation, especially
among women
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Flow chart to identify gender needs & gaps
Supply side – local government Community – services users
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Service
Women & girlsMen & boys
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Knowledge
Resources
Social permission
Time – timing, duration
Physical access
A. Knowledge needs & processes
Group work
Appoint facilitator & reporter
15 minutes discussion
Prepare flip chart & display
Gallery Viewing – wander!18
Key points
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B. Resource needs & processes
resource needs & processes Group work
Appoint facilitator & reporter
15 minutes discussion
Prepare flip chart & display
Gallery Viewing – wander!20
Key points
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C. Social permission needs & processes
Group work
Appoint facilitator & reporter
15 minutes discussion
Prepare flip chart & display
Gallery Viewing – wander!22
Key points
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D. Time needs & processes
resource needs & processes Group work
Appoint facilitator & reporter
15 minutes discussion
Prepare flip chart & display
Gallery Viewing – wander!24
Key points
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E. Physical & social access & processes
resource needs & processes Group work
Appoint facilitator & reporter
15 minutes discussion
Prepare flip chart & display
Gallery Viewing – wander!26
Key points
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Flow chart to identify indicators
Supply side – local government Community – services users
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Service
Women & girlsMen & boys
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Knowledge
Resources
Social permission
Time – timing, duration
Physical access
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Gender sensitive indicators measure equality between women & men
1.Disaggregated by sex
2.Specific to or targeted toward females or males –
3.“Implicitly gendered” No reference to sex BUT relevant to roles of females or males – use of domestic water, childcare
4.Chosen by women – e.g. violence against womenBased on data, defined, collected, presented & disseminated taking into account differences between women & men
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Pro-poor indicators reveal the poverty gap & important issues for the poor
4 ways an indicator could be pro-poor
1. Disaggregated by poverty status
2. Specific to the poor – access to welfare services
3. Implicitly pro-poor – use of free (legal) services
4. Chosen by the poor – involves the participation of the poor in selection and use of indicators
An improvement in an indicator generally means the result is pro-poor
Role of indicators
Identify problems – support voice
Tool for development and delivery of services.
Sex-disaggregated and gender-sensitive indicators essential for the delivery of gender-sensitive services
Essential input for monitoring, evaluation
Essential for accountability.
User’s Guide: Four questions
1.Why are basic services important and which services are basic?
2.What is role & obligation of government in service delivery?
Why should delivery be gender-sensitive?
3.What is role of governance in basic services delivery?
4.Why is measurement important? What is the role of indicators in service delivery?
A. Indicators - Knowledge
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B. Indicators - Resources
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C. Indicators –Social Permission
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D. Indicators - Time
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E. Indicators –Physical & social access
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Why gender sensitive delivery?Are you being served?
Women and men have different roles
Different needs and interests
Different situations and access
Without gender-sensitive delivery, women and girls will not be served.
Why are basic services important?
• Key strategy for achieving development
• All MDGs depend to some extent on the delivery of basic services• Target 3 cannot be achieved without basic
education services: • Target 10 is access to services
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Three kinds of basic services
Basic ‘social’ services essential for women’s rights to health & education
Not conventional but essential for women’s economic human rights – employment & economic services
Components of governance itself - electoral, civil registration, legal, justice police services.
Governance services enable delivery of basic social services
Governance Framework for Service Delivery
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Process flow chart – develops process indicators about specific governance processes
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Thank you.Let’s use indicators to make a better
world!