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Monday, March 10, 2003
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Workshop on Using Statistics for Gender-Responsive Policy Analysis and Advocacy (17-26 March 2003, UN Conference Centre, Bangkok, Thailand)
I'll be leaving on the 26th (Sunday) for a meeting among economists/policy analysts, gender experts and statisticians. Each country will be represented by a team composed of one economist/policy analyst, one gender expert and one statistician. Each team is supposed to prepare and submit a country paper on the 15th of March (even before reaching UN Bangkok). We are currently preparing our paper, which will focus on the contractualization of labor and its implications on women workers in the Philippines. No earth-shaking paper is necessary because the main focus of the meeting is to improve the capacities of countries to utilize statistics for gender-responsive policy analysis and advocacy. And the paper is just that --- a sample policy analysis using gender statistics. I will post updates on the Bangkok meeting as soon as I get there.
posted by Allan at 9:36 PM (GMT+8)
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