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UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT
ESA/STAT/AC.122/41 
Department of Economic and Social Affairs 
December 2006 
Statistics Division
English only 
 
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Inter-Agency and Expert Group Meeting on the 
Development of Gender Statistics
12-14 December 2006 
United Nations, New York
 
 
 
UNDP programme to improve gender statistics in Uzbekistan
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Prepared by 
Ulugbek Olimov 
Project Manager 
MDG Statistics, UNDP Uzbekistan 
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* This document is being reproduced without formal editing. 

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UNDP programme to improve gender statistics in Uzbekistan 
by Ulugbek Olimov
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Part A. Mainstreaming gender statistics into national development planning 
 
Achievement of gender equality and full participation of women in social and economic 
processes are identified as one of the key objectives and viewed as an important issue in all sections of the 
Interim Welfare Improvement Strategy. Within the agenda of the Living Standards Strategy (LSS), the 
Government of Uzbekistan in collaboration with UNDP took important steps in nationalization of MDGs 
to the Uzbek context. Later the LSS has been transformed into Interim Welfare Improvement Strategy 
paper for 2005-2010, which is presented by the Government as the first comprehensive development 
strategy document (PRSP equivalent). This contributed to identifying a set of national goals, targets and 
time-bound indicators that can be used to monitor the implementation of the welfare improvement 
strategy.
The Government has adopted a number of respective legislation and specific programmes, 
including National Action Platform. These documents outline the strategy and priority areas of the 
national policy regarding women, envisaging adherence to the principle of equal rights and freedoms, and 
enabling equal opportunities for women and men according to the Constitution of the Republic of 
Uzbekistan, international commitments including recommendations of the IV Global Conference on the 
status of women, i.e. actions in the interests of equality, development and peace.
The National Action Platform envisages unified efforts undertaken by the government, 
parliament, civil society institutions, NGOs and private sector to improve the potential of women in 
development of a democratic society. Analysis and study of the current trends in the area of achieving the 
gender equality under Millennium Development Goals and National Action Platform have stipulated the 
following national priorities: 
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Improving women’s health, including reproductive health and development of the family 
services; 
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Education and advanced professional literacy among women; 
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Improving economic status of women; 
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Mitigating impact of the environmental degradation; 
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Strengthening participation of women in the political processes; 
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Establishing special programmes to support girls; 
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Developing new image of an Uzbek woman in mass media, culture and arts that 
overcomes existing stereotypes; 
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Ensuring all types of equality for women and elimination of discrimination against them; 
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Conducting gender-specific surveys; 
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Developing and strengthening the role of women within NGOs; 
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Enhancing national mechanism of improving the status of women in Uzbekistan. 
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Measures ensuring gender equality, intensified government activities, local NGOs and scientific 
organizations addressing gender issues contributed to the growth in demand for statistical data related to 
gender equality and to the increased number of data users. 
The change in demand has stipulated adjustment of goals and objectives, forms and methods of 
statistical data dissemination. Gender statistics principles are reviewed in close coordination with the data 
users taking into account recommendations provided by the international organizations towards 
systematization, introduction and development of new indicators enabling comparative analysis of gender 
disparities. Activities conducive to improving gender statistics are linked with the development of all 
sectors of national statistics. 
Ongoing dialogue with Government on MDGs, specifically gender issues, resulted in designing a 
full-pledged project aimed at providing technical assistance in elaboration of national MDG statistical 
monitoring and reporting system. This project, to be implemented during the period of 2006-2009, is 
intended to support the Government in developing of statistical database and improving the data quality 
and availability. Also to improve the public awareness and knowledge it is considered to prepare a 
national MDG statistical monitoring report. It should be noted that the present project will be 
implemented in close cooperation with recently launched project on Welfare Improvement Strategy 
(WIS).