Series of webinars on Improving the Use of Gender Statistics in Jordan
The fourth national training workshop on Gender Statistics is organized by the Gender Statistics Unit of the Department of Statistics in Jordan, in close cooperation with ESCWA, Social Security Corporation and UN Women. This event is the fourth of a series of training workshops that aim at:
1) Raising awareness of the importance of gender statistics as a planning tool to achieve change among workers, stakeholders and researchers in the fields of women and gender;
2) Highlighting, by order of priority, the various areas where gender inequality is observed, and the extent to which they are tackled in policies;
3) Promoting the importance of sex-disaggregated data in drafting policies;
4) Improving the presentation and dissemination of gender data for use in strategies and in evaluating policy efficiency;
5) Building a network of gender statistics focal points in Jordan.
The training workshop is held over three days and includes presentations, videos and hands-on exercises.