Five sub-regional workshops for National Statistics Offices to disseminate methodologies and tools for the development of gender-disaggregated data : task brief

Abstract

The Beijing Conference on women in 1995 marked an important step in the development of gender disaggregated data and statistics. For the first time, an international instrument. The Beijing Platform for Action), comprehensively addressed the question of producing and disseminating gender statistics. Governments agreed on a set of important actions to "generate and disseminate gender-disaggregated data and information for planning and evaluation" (Platform for Action and the Beijing Declaration). Gender disaggregated data are statistics that adequately reflect the situation of women and men in all policy areas they allow for a systematic study of gender differentials and gender issues.