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Policy-Data Integration
National Workshop on Gender Policy-Data Integration in the context of Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Philippines
1st – 3rd August 2018, Manila
Arman Bidarbakht Nia
UNESCAP
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What the leaders of Statistical
community see as problem?
Two vicious cycles
❖Policy Sectors
❖Policy-Data
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Lack of policy
Lack of demand for data
Lack of data
Lack of evidence
Where does
it begin?
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Ministry of Housing &
Poverty
Ministry of Health
Ministry of social
welfare
Ministry of environment
Ineligible for cash
subsidy; earns
more than 1.9
USD
Her problem is
environmental,
she is also not
poor in poverty
database
Her disease is not
part of subsidized
medical coverage
plan
Housing is
outside mandate
of our ministry
How does it affect people?
A woman:
Aged, with
asthma, lives in
polluted area
Earns 2 $/day
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Why policies fail to target vulnerable?
What made the old woman vulnerable?
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Policy-Data Landscape
Not monitored
(Data Gap)
Data
unused
Policy-Data Void
Policy-Data Void
Data
waste
Policy
waste
(Social, Economic, Environmental, Institutional)
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Knowledge space
Monitored policy
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What needs to be done? Integration
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Data, Statistics, Indicators
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What is our focus?
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What is needed?
Policy-Data Integration
A.Holistic:
▪ Institutional, Social, Economic,
Environmental
▪Expand our knowledge space
A.Participatory
B.Active
C.Principle-Based
D.Demand driven
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How to do it?EPIC: A “Generic tool” that facilitates cooperative,
principle-based policy-data integration
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Reference
Bidarbakht-Nia, A., 2018; “Policy-Data Integration: key to achieving
the SDGs for all”, UNESCAP, Working Paper Series (SD/WP/07/April
2017).
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Context of the Philippines
M. C.Magna Carta
GADGender and
development
GEWEGender equality and
women empowerment
• Which policy priorities
these indicators
address?
• Why multiple indicator
framework?
• For whom/what? And
How being used?
Indicator sets:
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Context of the Philippines
National
Indicator sets
Lack of demand?
Excess supply/
waste?
Excess demand?
Excess supply?
Inconsistency?
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