Project name: AZE2P101 - Increased availability of accurate,
gender-sensitive information on population, development and the environment
Budget: US$ 82,000
Timeline: 1 January 2006 – 31 December 2006
What's the situation?
The 1994 International
Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)
called on countries to “fully integrate population concerns
into development strategies, planning, decision-making and resource
allocation at all levels”. The Government of Azerbaijan
has acknowledged these links between demographic, economic and
social concerns and has begun to develop comprehensive demographic
policies. A State Coordination Commission on population development
issues was established in June 2003. A State Programme on Demography
and Population Development was developed and approved just over
a year later. This Programme is based on national interests,
and takes into consideration agreements reached at the ICPD;
the World Summit on Social Development (Copenhagen, 1995), and
the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995).
The Government of Azerbaijan is aware of the importance of data in
national development planning. It has taken up a considerable number
of initiatives to improve the coverage and quality of data. However,
in the current economic circumstances, the Government needs support
from its development partners to strengthen national capability so
as to be able to handle all aspects of data collection, processing
and analysis and data dissemination in order to meet the challenge
of the next millennium. The most urgent needs in terms of capacity
building are to augment the human resources capability of the professional
staff and the capital resources of the organizations which are involved
in the collection and analysis of data concerning population and
development and concerning reproductive health.
What’s our mission?
The UNFPA Country Office in Azerbaijan is cooperating with the State
Statistical Committee of Republic of Azerbaijan (SSC) to strengthen
the Committee's institutional and technical capacity to collect,
analyze and disseminate statistical data. In 1999, UNFPA supported
the SSC in conducting the Azerbaijan's
first population census since it regained independence in 1992. UNFPA also provided
support for the 2001 Reproductive Health Survey. Significant
progress has been made by improving and expanding the population,
reproductive and gender disaggregated data that has subsequently
led to their being incorporated in the State Programme on Poverty
Reduction and Economic Development.
UNFPA will continue to contribute to the development of the institutional
and technical capacity of the SSC for data collection, processing
and dissemination with a strong focus on “gender statistics”.
Within the UN system in Azerbaijan, UNFPA has been charged to help
facilitate the process of data definitions and collection methods
for the indicators related to Goals three and five of the Millennium
Development Goals and for missing indicators relevant to the
ICPD. Gender related data, data on maternal mortality rates (MMR)
and infant mortality rates (IMR) will be given priority. Once indicators,
data definitions and collection methods have been agreed, UNFPA will
support the dissemination process and will work with SSC and relevant
ministries to build capacity through training at both national and
local levels for the collection of accurate data. In light of the
existing data gaps, which make it difficult to measure that impact
of government strategies and programmes, and as part of the data
collection system improvement, UNFPA will support a Demographic and
Health Survey/Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. The results of this
survey will provide important baseline data for UNFPA supported activities.
How is UNFPA doing this?
In order to promote the increased availability of accurate, gender-sensitive
information on population, development and the environment,
UNFPA will:
- Contribute and support a process that ensures full consensus among all relevant stakeholders on data definitions and collection methods for key MDGs and ICPD indicators
- Strengthen the institutional and technical capacities of selected national research and development institutions to provide demographic and population data
- Organize training seminars and /workshops with the participation of international experts from Hacettepe University on the use and application of internationally accepted modern methods of population projections and estimates, techniques of demographic analysis, design of questionnaires for demographic surveys etc.
- Conduct specialized surveys and research studies, emphasizing the generation of data disaggregated by gender, region and socio-economic status
- Research and examine the status of civil servants in the public sector, with a strong focus on gender issues;
- Develop a gender desegregated database of the demographic status of men and women in the overall demographic context of the country
- Provide support for and inputs to the DHS and the MICS
- Conduct Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2005 in joint programme with UNDP;
- Support the development/calculation of a number of indicators reflected in the vision papers on MDG 3& 5 and SPPRED document. Priority will be given to GDI (Gender Development Index) and GEM (Gender Empowerment Measure).
- Support the establishment of a user-friendly national population databank
- Support
the dissemination, in a user-friendly form, of the results
and findings of research studies at national and regional levels.
Who are our partners?
This project will be implemented jointly with the State Statistical
Committee
Other partners will be:
The State Committee on Family, Women and Children
SPPRED Secretariat
UNICEF
The Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population
Hacettepe University
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