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On 12th March 2010, UNESCO and the OECD Development Centre are jointly organising an International Workshop on “Gender Equality and Progress in Societies” in Paris, a unique opportunity to consider gender equality from a broader perspective while addressing its inherent socio-cultural-economic implications.

Each day prior to the Conference, Wikigender will be focusing on a different session of the Conference. Today, Tuesday 9th March 2010, the focus is on session 2. This session will make explicit the link between gender equality and the progress of societies overall, focusing on measurements, innovations and effective strategies to ensure national and local ownership. Participants will be split into two parallel working groups.

Session 2: Looking at innovative ways of measuring progress in gender equality

Working Group 1: Measurement

Better data, better statistics, better indicators: recent development in gender statistics
Facilitator: Jon Hall, OECD Development Co-operation Directorate/PARIS21
Rapporteur: Mathilde Mesnard, Office of the Secretary-General, OECD
Short inputs: 11.45 – 12.15

Jeff Edmeades, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW): SIGI - a new composite indicator to measure gender inequality (10 min)
Suzanne Skevington, World Health Organization Centre for the Study of Quality of Life, University of Bath: Gender equality and the notion of quality of life in people with HIV and AIDS"
Aniela Unguresan, Co-Founder, the Gender Equality Project: Establishing a Global Standard in Gender Equality (10 min)

Discussion: 12.15 – 13.15

Working Group 2: Innovation

How can we collaboratively measure progress in gender equality? How can we make those measurements more accessible?
Facilitator: Angela Hariche, OECD Statistics Directorate/Development Centre
Rapporteur: Martha Osorio or Libor Stloukal, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
Short Inputs : 11.45 – 12.15

Enrico Giovannini, Italian Institute of Statistics: Measuring progress in gender equality: from statistics to knowledge and action through the Wikiprogress/Wikigender platforms (10 min)
Seth Flaxman, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: Build your own gender index: my.genderindex.org (10 min)
Albert Motivans, UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Development goals through a gender lens: the case of education (10 min)

Discussion: 12.15 – 13.15