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Presented by : Souleymane Abdallah Economic Affairs Officer, UNECA

Introducing the Sectoral African Gender and Development index (AGDI) on Agriculture. 20th SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON AGRICULTURE STATISTICS 10-13 December 2007, Hilton Hotel, Algiers. Presented by : Souleymane Abdallah Economic Affairs Officer, UNECA.

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Presented by : Souleymane Abdallah Economic Affairs Officer, UNECA

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  1. Introducing the Sectoral African Gender and Development index (AGDI) on Agriculture 20th SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON AGRICULTURE STATISTICS 10-13 December 2007, Hilton Hotel, Algiers Presented by: Souleymane Abdallah Economic Affairs Officer, UNECA

  2. Presentation’s Outline • What is the AGDI? • What is the GSI? • GSI architecture • Why AGDI on agricultural sector • Social block • Economic block • Political bloc • Computation of the GSI • Country example

  3. What Is the AGDI? The African Gender and Development index is a composite index that combines both quantitative and qualitative indicators through its two parts : • The Gender Status Index (GSI) captures quantitatively measurable issues related to gender equality • The African Women’s Progress Scoreboard (AWPS) measures government policy performance regarding women’s advancement and empowerment

  4. What Is the GSI? • The Gender Status Index is the quantitative part of the African Gender and Development Index; • GSI covers aspects of gender relations that can be measured and provides a quantitative assessment of gender equality; • The GSI is based on three blocks: social power ‘capabilities’, economic power ‘opportunities’ and political power ‘agency’.

  5. GSI Architecture

  6. Why AGDI on agricultural sector? • Women constitute the majority of the agricultural workforce • Gender statistics in the agricultural sector are critical to understanding the multidimensional aspects of feminized poverty • African economies rely heavily on agriculture • ECA repositioning • AFCAS 2005 recommendation

  7. Social Block

  8. Social Block (Cont’d)

  9. Social Block (Cont’d)

  10. Economic Block

  11. Economic Block (Cont’d)

  12. Economic Block (Cont’d)

  13. Economic Block (Cont’d)

  14. Economic Block (Cont’d)

  15. Political Block

  16. Political Block (Cont’d)

  17. Political Block (Cont’d)

  18. Computation of the GSI Guiding principles: • Each basic indicator has the same weight in each sub-component; • Each sub-component has the same weight in each component; • Each component of the GSI has the same weight in each block; • Finally, each block has the same weight in the GSI.

  19. Computation of the GSI (Cont’d) For each variable, the indicator of gender equality is calculated the same way: Comparison (ratio) of female achievement to male achievement. The closer the indicator is to 1, the better the performance on gender equality is in the country: Example: Primary enrolment rate for girls: 65% Primary enrolment rate for boys: 80% Enrolment rate indicator: 65/80 = 0.8125

  20. Computation of the GSI (Cont’d) • The value for each sub-component, component and block is calculated as the simple arithmetic mean of respectively the indicators, sub-components and components. • The GSI is then compiled as the mean of the three blocks to give the overall gender profile of the country.

  21. Computation of the GSI (Cont’d) Exceptions (Reverse indicators): • Some indicators do not follow the rule: These are reverse indicators such as stunting, underweight, mortality and time-use (domestic, care and volunteer activities): Here we measure male achievement versus female achievement. • If an indicator is missing, the other indicators of the sub-component are re-weighted, to take account of the actual number of available indicators.

  22. Country Example

  23. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! www.uneca.org

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