Development Data Group (DECDG) supports the World Bank's commitment to intensify gender mainstreaming in order to reduce disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development. As part of this commitment, the Department has developed a strategy to provide data and statistical support to the Bank's Gender Action Plan which targets four key markets: land, labour, finance, and product because of their ability to produce fast and sustained increases in women's productivity and incomes.
The data and statistics strategy identifies gaps in national and international statistics necessary to monitor progress in attaining gender equality. It suggests a way forward in three areas to:
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Improve availability of existing gender indicators based on a stock-taking exercise;
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build national capacity to make gender analysis a part of countries' result-based agenda
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Identify new indicators required to support the Bank's Gender Action Plan and work with relevant international agencies to set up methodologies and strategies to collect new data.
To learn more about the Gender Action Plan, see the Press Release.
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