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UNIFEM
Asia-Pacific
and Arab States Regional Programme for Engendering Economic Governance demystifying economics and empowering women |
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UNIFEM
Asia-Pacific
and Arab States Regional Programme for Engendering Economic Governance demystifying economics and empowering women |
The UNIFEM Regional Programme for Engendering Economic Governance in Asia-Pacific & the Arab States, and the Statistics Division of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia-Pacific (UN-ESCAP) jointly organized the 8 working days workshop as part of a continuing collaboration.
Five country teams each with one economist, one statistician and one gender specialist were invited from Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Philippines and Republic of Korea. The Ministry for Women’s and Veteran’s Affairs Cambodia sent an additional three staff under UNDP funding. Unfortunately, the economist from the Indian team was unable to attend, so the total number of participants was 17 (click for list of participants).
The resource team comprised: Haroon Akram-Lodhi, leader; Lorraine Corner, Regional Economic Advisor for UNIFEM in Asia and the Arab States; Teena Cabbab, Facilitator and Change Management Consultant, and; Indira Hirway, economist and advisor to Central Statistics Organization India on Time Use Surveys, Centre for Development Alternatives, Ahmedabad, India.
Inputs were also provided by:
- Rosanita (Annie) Serrano, Programme Manager, UNDP-APGEN Asia-Pacific Gender Equity Network;
- Lene Mikklesen, Chief of Statistical Development, Statistics Division, UN-ESCAP.
Shananphorn (Shanan) Mitaim, the EEG Programme Assistant, Niyada Wattanisorn, UNIFEM intern, and Chol O Han, Programme Officer from the Statistics Division provided support.
Prior to their arrival at the workshop, the Country Teams met with the assistance of a mentor arranged by UNIFEM to:
- identify an economic policy issue of importance to women in their country;
- undertake a preliminary gender analysis to identify the gender dimensions of the issue;
- collect and compile the data they would require to refine this analysis during the workshop.
The mentor for the Philippines Country Team was Rosanita Serrano, while Lene Mikkelesen met with a member of the Korean Team in Seoul before the workshop to discuss their draft country policy paper. Other mentors were: Indira Hirway for the Indian Team, Yulfita Raharjo for the Indonesian Team and Elaine McKay for the Cambodian Team.
With the aid of the facilitator, Teena Cabbab, the resource team designed the course to focus on specific Learning Process Objectives, which included:
- realizing the importance of gender-responsive analysis and promoting the status of women and realization of women’s human rights;
- realizing the value and importance of cooperation and collaboration among the groups and institutions represented in the Country Teams (economists, statisticians and gender specialists);
- understanding a gender-responsive framework for policy analysis and policy advocacy from a gender perspective, a data perspective and an economics perspective;
- understanding, identifying and prioritizing gender-responsive policy objectives and policy recommendations
- understanding and using the tools of policy mapping, table reduction and argument analysis to undertake gender-responsive policy analysis on the selected policy issue;
- preparing a gender-responsive policy advocacy strategy for the selected policy issue;
- preparing and presenting on the final day a 10 minute Powerpoint presentation and a concise two-page Policy Brief on the selected policy issue.
dated: 2May2003
