Sida International Training Programme: Increasing Gender Equality between Women and Men by Using Statistics as a Tool

Deadline: 1 December 2017

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) is seeking applications for its International Training Programme, “Gender Statistics” with an aim to contribute to increased gender equality between women and men by using statistics as a tool.

Objectives

The objective for the programme is that an organizational change should take place so that participating organisations:

implement gender statistics in their ongoing work
work with, maintain and continuously develop the network in gender statistics between producers and users

Programme Structure

The training programme is divided into five compulsory phases.

Phase 1 – Preparatory phase
Phase 2 – Training in Sweden (May 14 – June 1, 2018, 3 weeks)
Phase 3 – Interim period
Phase 4 – Training in one of the participating countries (October 22–26, 2018, 1 week)
Phase 5 – Launching and communicating the project results (October 2018 – March 2019)

Benefits

Skills how to identify relevant gender indicators
Tools to develop high quality gender statistics
Increased ability to analyse gender statistics according to international standards
Increased ability to communicate and disseminate gender statistics to a wide range of users
Increased ability to monitor and evaluate the development concerning gender equality in the participating countries
A network for producers and users of gender statistics to share information in order to meet the user needs.

Eligibility Criteria

The programme targets statistical producers and strategic users of statistics in the area of gender equality.
The producers are those producing a country’s official statistics while the users could be decision-makers, and professionals within civil society, media, academia and the business community in a position to contribute to increased gender equality in society.
Suitable organizations are the national statistical institutes, governmental or civil society organizations, or the private sector working with gender equality.
The programme is specially designed for professionals qualified to participate in reform processes of importance at various levels and who hold a position in their home organization with a mandate to initiate processes of change.
Only candidates nominated by the appropriate organization and according to the national rules will be accepted.
Applicants to the programme should:
- have capacity for and interest in promoting gender equality;
- be key persons with the ability and mandate to initiate and drive change processes;
- hold a relevant academic degree and have high proficiency in English;
- have good computer skills in Word, Excel and Power Point.