Outcome EGY_D_1.3

Gender statistics are available, accessible, and analyzed to inform policy making, advocacy and accountability for delivering gender equality and women’s empowerment

Under the Women Count programme, UN Women in collaboration with Paris21, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics and the National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women (NSEEW). The assessment was validated by CAPMAS through a national Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS). The findings and recommendations of the National Review of Gender Statistics will be integrated in the NSDS to improve planning, production and use of gender statistics in Egypt. Egypt has expressed interest in conducting a Voluntary National Reviews at the 2021 High-level Political Forum on sustainable development so during 2020 it commenced the process of developing its national SDG report. GEWE will be included given that it is high on the political agenda of the government. As part of the development of the national review of gender statistics, orientation on gender statistics was held for statistics divisions in 5 ministries

Gender statistics are available, accessible, and analyzed to inform policy making, advocacy and accountability for delivering gender equality and women’s empowerment

Final clearance was received by the Government for the UN Women/Paris 21/Government of Egypt-supported review of gender statistics. Based on 54 gender-specific indicators, the review examines the extent to which gender data are available for both SDG and NSEEW indicators. It shows that 51% of the gender-specific SDG indicators are available through existing data sources, with household surveys and censuses being the main data sources. Furthermore, only two-thirds of the available indicators are disaggregated by sex and other characteristics. This review also advises the national statistical body (CAPMAS) on how to ensure their National Statistical Strategy systemtises the generation of gender statistics. This review is also informing OECD's new Gender and Statistics project with the Government of Egypt, which is supporting the government's improved with OECD's statistical requirements, and UN Women is working closely with the OECD team in Paris on this.