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The !Environment !and Gender Index (EGI)!
2013 Pilot!
“We have to move beyond the lip service of gender mainstreaming, into concrete actions...It is important to place well-defined, convention-specific strategies on gender with achievable indicators and objectives and to support governments in their efforts to implement and comply with the gender provisions of the Conventions.” Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary
Moving Beyond Lip Service !
“Too often, development efforts have been hampered by a lack of the most basic data about the social and economic circumstances in which people live... Stronger monitoring and evaluation at all levels, and in all processes of development (from planning to implementation) will help guide decision making, update priorities and ensure accountability.” -High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, March 2013 communiqué, Bali, Indonesia
We Need a Data Revolution!
The Purpose of the EGI!
• Monitor implementation of global agreements
• Promote transparency and accountability
• Expand access to environmental information
• Increase aid effectiveness
• Demonstrate that measurement is possible
Core Questions! Are governments integrating gender in their environmental efforts? Are the conditions favorable for women to be actively involved in environmental decision-making? But our main task became….
• Searching for data • Filling data gaps • Identifying proxies
Methodology! • Expert Panel of 33 members
• Existing high quality data sets
• Creating new data sets to fill data gaps
• Developing a composite index • Country selection • Methodological framework • Index-ready data • Weighting scheme
The EGI Framework!
72 Countries Worldwide!
OECD 8
La)n America and Caribbean
7 Africa 20
MENA 8
Asia 13
Eurasia 8
EGI Country Rankings!
Regional Performance!Region/Group Highest
performer Lowest
performer Top category for
region/group
Latin America and the Caribbean
Panama Dominican Republic
Livelihood and Gender-based Education & Assets
Eurasia Romania Tajikistan Livelihood
Asia Mongolia Pakistan Ecosystem and Gender-based Education & Assets
Middle East and North Africa
Lebanon Yemen Livelihood
Africa South Africa DRC Ecosystem
OECD Countries Iceland Italy Livelihood and Gender-based Education & Assets
Iceland Rank: 1 Score: 84
OECD Regional rank: 1 (out of 16 countries)
Income level rank: 1 (out of 16 countries)
Category Overall score (normalized values)
Regional rank (out of 16 countries)
Income level rank (out of 16 countries)
1 Livelihood 97 5 5 2 Ecosystem 85 6 6 3 Gender-based rights and participation 73 5 5
4 Governance 87 8 8 5 Gender-based education and assets 100 3 3
6 Country-reported activities 36 1 1
GDP per capita PPP (USD) $42,658 Women working in the informal sector n/a Women agriculture holders n/a Women engaged in vulnerable
employment 6%
Female graduates in Science 63% Female Internet users 96% Global Environment Facility (GEF) projects
n/a Legal quotas for women in policy-making positions
No
Female headed households (rural) n/a Female mobile phone subscribers 78%
Examples of Country Performance!
Examples of Country Performance!
EGI and GDP Per Capita Compared!
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New Dataset: Country-Reported Activities on Gender and Environment !
Top Three Performers on Country-reported Activities
Overall UNFCCC UNCCD CBD CEDAW 1 India India India Tanzania Morocco 2 Kenya Ghana S. Africa Mexico Yemen 3 Ghana Malawi Kenya Kenya Ghana
New Dataset: Women Delegates to COPs!
New Dataset: !Gender-Responsive Global Environment Facility (GEF) Projects Before and After Gender Policy!
New Dataset: Women Ministers of Environment and Environment-Related Ministries!
Overall Findings!
• Limited sex-disaggregated data in the environmental sector
• Piecemeal accountability between international agreements and national action
• Country income level is not a factor in performance
• Need for gender parity in environmental decision-making
• Gender policies have an impact
Next Steps for EGI! • Country level analysis
• Dig deeper and refine methodology
• Increase country coverage
• Build momentum for data collection by international organizations and governments
• Create new datasets
Download the full report and summary at: environmentgenderindex.org
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