Statistics House Gender Equality and Women Empowerment

The growing awareness and demand for gender responsive statistics to inform policies, planning and decision making necessitates a cautious effort in the collation of gender responsive statistics to distinguish their needs and access to resources. The demand is driven by various international, regional and national development frameworks and interventions targeting gender equality. The Beijing Platform for Action underlines production and use of gender disaggregated statistics for policy formulation, planning and implementation as one of the specific actions. Countries are also required to generate gender responsive data to monitor their progress on achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The Uganda Gender Policy underpins the need to achieve equality between women and men and highlights specific actions for key players in gender mainstreaming. The National Development Plan underlines gender inequality as one of the binding constraints to Uganda’s development progress. Gender disaggregated statistics reveal the similarities and differences between women and men hence informing policy and decision making processes to achieve gender equality. The Uganda Bureau of Statistics has produced Facts and Figures on Gender (2013) to respond to the growing demand for gender statistics and demonstrate the current status of key issues and concern