Outcome APA_D_1.5

Both state and non-state actors contribute to the production, analyses and leveraging of gender statistics and sex-disaggregated data to inform decision-making, budgeting, monitoring and reporting on normative commitments to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment

Key national, regional, and global actors strengthened the production and use of quality gender statistics to enhance planning, policies, and accountability systems that better integrate the needs of women and girls. In 2025, UN Women substantially contributed to this progress. Three countries in Asia-Pacific leveraged gender statistics for climate action plans that better meet the needs of women and girls. The new Cambodia National Determined Contribution (NDC) integrates gender equality throughout, including a dedicated chapter tailored to women, youth, Indigenous Peoples and persons with disabilities. The Gender Environment Survey (GES) , launched in 2025, generated timely evidence on the disproportionate impacts of climate change on women and girls. Data from the Survey, led by the National Institute of Statistics with UN Women support, was used to shape realistic yet ambitious mitigation and adaptation measures. UN Women further supported national dialogues between data users and producers, strengthening stakeholders’ capacities to apply GES data for evidence-based and gender-responsive policy- and decision-making. Similarly, in the Pacific, the Tonga NDC 3.0 includes a dedicated chapter on gender equality and social inclusion and references evidence from the Tonga GES (2022). In 2025, UN Women supported the integration of gender evidence into the NDC through technical inputs, collaboration with the field office, and facilitation of national data user–producer dialogues to strengthened cooperation and capacity to leverage GES data. In Samoa , UN Women worked with the Ministry of Women to mainstream gender across the NDC , providing technical support to leverage Samoa GES (2023) data. In Tonga , GES evidence supported by UN Women is informing other policymaking and accountability processes. The Tonga Statistics Department and the National Disaster Risk Management Office used GES data for 2025 reporting on the Gender Action Plan to Support Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Government stakeholders have also referenced the GES as a critical evidence base to guide the revision of the National Gender Policy (2019–2025), particularly in strengthening its Outcome on women’s resilience to climate change and disasters. At the global level, actors are advancing gender-responsive statistical standards. At the 30th session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30), Parties discussed the adoption of a set of indicators for tracking progress towards targets under the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA). Through the relevant expert group , UN Women contributed to ensuring the proposed set of 100 Indicators captures gender dimensions of climate change leveraging regional leading expertise. Tools led by UN Women Asia Pacific, such as the Metadata for 100 Gender-Environment indicators , are expected to support countries in reporting on the GGA indicators . In parallel, UN Women contributed to mainstreaming gender in standard guidelines for censuses and surveys. Through the Expert Group on Environment and Climate Change Statistics, UN Women supported the inclusion of gender-specific questions and sampling guidance for gender analysis. At the regional level, actors coordinated to strengthen gender data systems. UN Women continued to steer and reinforce sub-regional coordination mechanisms, namely the Pacific Gender Statistics Coordination Group, with the Pacific Community (SPC), and the ASEAN–UN Women cooperation programme on gender statistics, co-chaired with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat. Pacific Group members—representing statistical offices and other relevant institutions—oversaw gender statistics initiatives, including the first Pacific Gender Outlook in 2025. The Outlook, provides first-time estimates of regional progress across all 17 SDGs from a gender perspective, highlighting population groups lagging behind and equipping policymakers with timely actionable evidence to prioritise equitable interventions and track progress more effectively. Since its launch at the seventh Pacific Heads of Planning meeting , at least four media outlets—including RNZ News and The Fiji Times —featured its findings. This result builds on the strong policy relevance and uptake of the ASEAN Gender Outlooks produced in previous years in partnership with ASEAN, further strengthening Asia-Pacific capacity to operationalize the leaving-no-one-behind principle through data-driven decision-making and accountability.

Both state and non-state actors contribute to the production, analyses and leveraging of gender statistics and sex-disaggregated data to inform decision-making, budgeting, monitoring and reporting on normative commitments to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment

During 2023, UN Women contributed to significant progress under the outcome. Countries in the region heightened their commitment to producing and using gender statistics, recoginsing their value in informing strategies, plans, and policies that advance the situation of women and girls in their country. In October 2023, the Pacific Roadmap on Gender Statistics was endorsed by unanimity by the Heads of Planning and Statistics (HOPS). Comprising the most senior officials responsible for the production and use of statistics at national levels, the HOPS endorsement further strengthens the commitment of Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) to the production and use of gender statistics. The roadmap aims to promote the production of quality, relevant, and timely gender data, its dissemination, and its effective use to advance gender equality. It was developed in 2020 by data users and producers across PICTs, coordinated by the Pacific Community (SPC) and UN Women. As co-chairs of the Pacific Gender Statistics Coordination Group, UN Women and SPC coordinate its implementation across countries, respond to emerging requests, and align support from development partners. The group has been instrumental in responding to country requests for support in a timely manner, including through coordination and fund pooling among development partners. In the ASEAN sub-region, the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Group on Gender Statistics for tracking progress towards the SDGs and beyond was established in 2023. Through knowledge sharing and joint establishment of priorities, this new cooperation mechanism will accelerate progress towards the production and use of gender data for a gender-responsive implementation of ASEAN Community Vision 2025, and the monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals and other frameworks such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Established through collaboration between UN Women and the ASEAN Secretariat, its co-chairs, and representatives from National Statistics Offices and policymakers from ASEAN Member States. Countries in Asia and the Pacific have been pioneers on the production and use of data on gender and the environment. Through continued collaboration between UN Women and UN ESCAP, a revised regional set of indicators for gender and the environment exists. Upon their request and with financial and technical support from UN Women, Tonga and Samoa became the second and third countries globally to implement nationally representative surveys on Gender and the Environment. The methodology , developed by UN Women and partners, collects data on the different effects of disasters, climate change biodiversity loss and pollution on women and men, and on the roles they play on environmental conservation and degradation. Thus, the data enables gender-responsive climate policy. During COP 28, held in Dubai in November 2023, representatives from the Kingdom of Tonga shared the results from its recently-published Gender-Environment Survey . Evidence from the survey informed discussions during the Global Conference on Gender and Environment data , co-organised by the COP Presidency, UN Women, and others. The conference underscored the vital roles of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and civil society organizations in improving the production and use of gender-environment statistics. The need for inclusion and collaboration was emphasized in the subsequent Global Call for Action . UN Women has received various requests to support gender-environment surveys in other countries. Cambodia and Kiribati are expected to be rolled out in 2024. Lastly, several institutions in the region contributed to strengthening the capacity of data users and producers on gender statistics in their countries. In 2023, at least 8 universities, national statistics offices and training institutes have used the Gender Statistics Training Curriculum developed by the Subgroup on Gender Statistics Training, co-chaired by UN Women and the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), to build the capacity of journalists, government officials, and university students. The Hong Kong Baptist University and the National University of Mongolia have rolled out gender courses based on the curriculum. As a result, over 100 students gained knowledge on gender statistics production and use, including their importance for policy making and monitoring, and how to best communicate and interpret them. In 2023, UN Women disseminated data shedding light on the situation of women and girls in the region. For example, decision makers had access to evidence on the gendered effects of climate change , the effects of climate change on poverty and food security , a climate scenario online tool , a crisis update on women in Afghanistan, and evidence on violence against women during disasters and crises. UN Women will continue to strengthen the capacity of data users and producers to generate more and better gender data, and promote their use for policy making, advocacy, monitoring and accountability purposes in 2024.

Both state and non-state actors contribute to the production, analyses and leveraging of gender statistics and sex-disaggregated data to inform decision-making, budgeting, monitoring and reporting on normative commitments to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment

During 2024, UN Women contributed to considerable progress under the outcome. Intergovernmental processes and outcome documents integrated discussions on gender statistics and indicators, including monitoring frameworks for global commitments. The UN Statistical Commission fifty-fifth session report encouraged countries to use tools, such as the Asia-Pacific set of gender and environment indicators by UN Women and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), to better mainstream gender across climate change statistics. This builds on ongoing advocacy and methodological contributions for measuring gender and environment issues, advanced by UN Women in close consultation with partners and national governments. In 2024, UN Women published a list of 100 Gender and Environment Indicators , that National Statistics Offices can use to produce related statistics per national priorities, expanding its series of survey guidance and tools ( Model Questionnaire on Gender and the Environment , Enumerator Manual and Sampling Guidelines ). Some of these indicators are currently under consideration for inclusion in global monitoring frameworks, such as those related to the Rio Conventions. Parties and other key actors advanced the mainstreaming of gender in monitoring frameworks and related discussions associated with the three Rio Conventions on climate change, biodiversity, and desertification. At COP16 (Biodiversity), parties advanced gender considerations in the negotiations building on new evidence on the interlinkages between gender and biodiversity produced by UN Women. The UN Women data brief was launched at a Gender and Environment Data Conference that UN Women co-organised with Women4Biodiversity, IUCN, UNDP, with support from SwedBio through Stockholm Resilience Center/Stockholm University. Policymakers, experts, and practitioners exchanged knowledge and strengthened capacities and collaboration for mainstreaming gender in biodiversity data at the event. UN Women continues to work with others towards the inclusion of gender indicators in the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (ongoing in 2025). At COP16 (Desertification), the Conference of Parties made explicit calls for the use of gender-specific indicators for monitoring progress, assessing the differentiated impact of desertification, land degradation and drought. During negotiations, parties used key findings from the data brief presented by UN Women during the Women Caucus Session, contributing to this result. At COP29 (Climate change), national governments and other key actors enhanced their capacity to produce gender and environment statistics, including for reporting towards the Paris Agreement (once mechanisms are finalized) at a global training co-organized by UN Women. At the national level, with UN Women and ESCAP support, Fiji, Indonesia, and the Philippines initiated the identification and production of gender-responsive indicators for monitoring national climate change priorities. Through national consultations, National Statistics Offices, line ministries and civil society identified a set of priority indicators in 2024, building on above mentioned UN Women indicator sets. In 2025, UN Women will continue to support the National Statistics Offices to finalize the indicator sets and generate related national statistics. Cambodia, Kiribati, and Mongolia implemented national official surveys on Gender and the Environment (using UN Women’s Model Questionnaire), with reports expected to be released in 2025.These reports will add to the evidence base of the Tonga and Samoa Surveys launched nationally in May and October 2024. Findings from Tonga are informing relevant priorities, plans, and reporting , including for e.g., on the Beijing Plan of Action. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and UN Women produced and disseminated timely evidence on the progress made across the SDGs for women and girls, with a focus on those being left furthest behind. The ASEAN Gender Outlook 2024 was launched in Malaysia and during the Seventy-ninth session of the General Assembly in New York, where ASEAN Member States reaffirmed their commitment to women and girls, leveraging the report’s evidence to accelerate progress towards the 2030 Agenda and ensure gender-responsive implementation of the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 . The report was cited in at least five independent media articles. Its key findings informed dialogues around Beijing +30, including a regional youth forum in Seoul reaching over 90 youth led by the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality in the Republic of Korea and a UN Women media workshop, reaching 30 members of the press, during the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review in Bangkok. Institutions in the region are building strong capacities to produce and use gender statistics. At least 202 students, government officials, and journalists gained skills in this area. Seven institutions autonomously built these capacities using the UN Women and SIAP Gender Statistics Training Curriculum . For example, statistical offices in Bangladesh (and Albania) enhanced their staff’s capacities, and the National University of Mongolia developed statistical skills among graduate students. UN Women steering of the Sub-group on Gender Statistics Training (SGGST), co-chaired with the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), was instrumental in these results. In 2025, UN Women will continue to support the production of more and better gender data, and encourage their use for policymaking, advocacy and accountability.