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Part B: Capacity building and information sharing
 
B1. Multi-donor funded sub-regional workshop on gender statistics 
In June 2005 RBEC Bratislava initiated, in cooperation with UNDP Uzbekistan, to organize a 
sub-regional meeting on gender statistics from 11 to 15 July, 2005 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Center for 
Economic Research (“CER”) has been selected as a focal point and implementing agency for organization 
of this week-long workshop.
CER has invited other partners to make contribution to this event. As a result, three other key 
donor organizations, including U.S. Census Bureau, the World Bank Institute and UN Economic Council 
for Europe, showed interest in and agreed to contribute to the organization of the workshop. The 
workshop has been led by the international training team, consisting of Ms. Angela Me and Ms. Jessica 
Gardner of UNECE and Ms. Dono Abdurazakova of UNDP Regional Centre in Bratislava. 
The key beneficiary countries include Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, 
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Around 25 representatives of national statistical offices, line ministries 
dealing with gender issues, NGOs and research institutions of the region are invited to the above training 
course. The participants recommended that it would be useful for countries to exchange experiences on 
the development and implementation of national strategies on gender statistics. 
In general, the workshop is intended to supplement the on-going efforts of the Governments of 
above-mentioned beneficiary countries and to address emerging issues in the National Statistical Offices 
both in the production and dissemination of gender related data. On the other hand, the suggested 

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workshop will complement the on-going UNDP supported initiatives such as support to achieving the 
national MDGs. The main objectives of the workshop were identified as following: 
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To expose users and producers of gender statistics in the countries in the sub-region to a 
dialogue on the need to mainstream gender into the production, dissemination and 
analysis of statistics and to improve the use of statistics for gender-sensitive policy 
making in these countries; 
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To strengthen the dialogue between users and producers of gender statistics in Uzbekistan 
with the view to identify the relevant gender issues in the country and to initiate the 
necessary steps for a better mainstreaming of gender into the national statistical system;
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To initiate a dialogue in Uzbekistan and other countries in the region on the need for 
relevant statistics on unpaid work and violence against women and to identify 
methodology that could be used to collect relevant data in the region. 
The focus of the workshop was to discuss emerging gender issues and how gender statistics can 
help to make them visible. The workshop was also intended to raise awareness of the need to invest in 
gender statistics and on issues such violence against women and unpaid work.
As part of this meeting, it was suggested to organize a two-day training course on selected areas 
of gender statistics. Two areas (topics) of gender statistics, namely, “Gender Statistics on the Labor 
Market” and “Gender Statistics on Decision Making” were selected and covered in details. The training 
was organized with lectures and work assignments where participants were asked to develop simple 
analysis of the data.