The Environment

and Gender Index (EGI)

Ruta Aidis, PhDIndex Developer

Global Gender OfficeIUCN

We have to move beyond the lip service of gender mainstreaming, into concrete actions...It is important to place well-defined, convention-specific strategies on gender with achievable indicators and objectives and to support governments in their efforts to implement and comply with the gender provisions of the Conventions.

Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary

Moving Beyond Lip Service

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Too often, development efforts have been hampered by a lack of the most basic data about the social and economic circumstances in which people live... Stronger monitoring and evaluation at all levels, and in all processes of development (from planning to implementation) will help guide decision making, update priorities and ensure accountability

March 2013 communiqué, the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Bali, Indonesia

We Need a Data Revolution

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The Purpose of the EGI

• Monitor implementation of global agreements

• Promote transparency and accountability

• Expand access to environmental information

• Increase aid effectiveness

• Demonstrate that measurement is possible

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Core Questions Are governments integrating gender in their environmental efforts?

Are the conditions favorable for women to be actively involved in environmental decision-making?

But our main task became….

• Searching for Data • Filling data gaps• Identifying proxies

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Methodology

• Expert Panel of 33 members

• Existing high quality data sets

• Creating new data sets to fill data gaps

• Developing a composite index

• Country list• A methodological framework• Index-ready data • Weighting scheme

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The EGI Framework

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72 Countries Worldwide

OECD8

Latin America and Caribbean

7 Africa20

MENA8

Asia13

Eurasia8

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EGI Country Rankings

Regional Performance

Region/Group Highest performer

Lowest performer

Top category for region/group

Latin America and the Caribbean

Panama Dominican Republic

Livelihood and Gender-based Education & Assets

Eurasia Romania Tajikistan Livelihood

Asia Mongolia Pakistan Ecosystem and Gender-based Education & Assets

Middle East and North Africa

Lebanon Yemen Livelihood

Africa South Africa

DRC Ecosystem

OECD Countries Iceland Italy Livelihood and Gender-based Education & Assets R. Aidis (2013)

Iceland Rank: 1 Score: 84

OECD Regional rank: 1 (out of 16 countries)

Income level rank: 1 (out of 16 countries)Category Overall score

(normalized values)Regional rank

(out of 16 countries)Income level rank(out of 16 countries)

1 Livelihood 97 5 52 Ecosystem 85 6 63 Gender-based rights and participation 73 5 5

4 Governance 87 8 85 Gender-based education and assets 100 3 3

6 Country-reported activities 36 1 1

GDP per capita PPP (USD) $42,658 Women working in the informal sector n/a

Women agriculture holders n/a Women engaged in vulnerable employment

6%

Female graduates in Science 63% Female Internet users 96%

Global Environment Facility (GEF) projects

n/a Legal quotas for women in policy-making positions

No

Female headed households (rural) n/a Female mobile phone subscribers 78%

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Examples of Country Performance

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Examples of Country Performance

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EGI and GDP Per Capita Compared

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New Dataset: Country-Reported Activities on Gender and Environment

Top Three Performers on Country-reported Activities

Overall UNFCCC UNCCD CBD CEDAW

1 India India IndiaTanzania Morocco

2 Kenya Ghana S. Africa Mexico Yemen

3 Ghana Malawi Kenya Kenya Ghana

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New Dataset: Women Delegates to COP

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New Dataset: Gender-Responsive Projects Before and After Gender Policy

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New Dataset: Women Ministers of Environment and Environment-Related

Ministries

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Overall Findings

• Gender Data in the Environmental Sector

• Accountability between International Agreements and National Action

• Gender Parity in Environmental Decision-making

• Gender Policies Seem to be Working

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Next Steps for EGI • Country level analysis

• Refine methodology

• Increase country coverage

• Build momentum for data collection by international organizations and governments

• Create new datasets R. Aidis (2013)

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