You can watch this colloquium live here: http://drexel.edu/soe/resources/event-series/gec/November-14-2017-Event/
Cutting-edge policy research, innovative new ideas and robust
evidence are critical ways in which UN Women works to build knowledge on
gender equality and women’s empowerment. High quality research is
essential to assuring evidence-based policy making in all development
fields essential to supporting gender equality including education,
health care, the economy, and good governance. This presentation
introduces how UN Women’s data-based flagship report, Progress of the
Worlds Women, is produced and the role it plays in producing and
disseminating high-quality gender statistics into policy-making. UN
Women is an active member of the Interagency and Expert Group on Gender
Statistics (IAEG-GS), which coordinates work on such data across the UN.
This group’s work has included the development of a minimum set of 52
gender indicators, as well as new guidelines for measuring violence
against women and girls. In addition, UN Women is collaborating with
other agencies in a global gender statistics program called Evidence and
Data for Gender Equality (EDGE). Preview data from the upcoming 2018
report focused on families will be presented, and contextualized in
light of ongoing work at the United Nations to bring gender knowledge
and knowledge about gender into the mainstream of policy-making around
the world.
Laura Turquet is the Manager of UN Women’s flagship report, Progress
of the World’s Women. She has worked at UN Women (and its predecessor
organization UNIFEM) for eight years, and was the lead author of the
2011 report In Pursuit of Justice and a co-author of the latest edition,
Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights. She is currently working on
the next edition of the report, focusing on Families in a Changing
World. Before that, she worked for various NGOs, women’s organizations
and research institutes on different aspects of gender equality and
women’s rights. In 2013, MS. Turquet co-edited a book (with Rosalind
Eyben) titled Feminists in Development Organizations: Change from the
Margins. In 2016, she co-founded the UN Feminist Network, which brings
together feminists from across the UN system, creating an informal
political space to strategize on catalyzing transformative change ‘from
within.’
