GLOBAL GENDER AND ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK


Annex 1: Gender-Environment Datasets with Broadest Country Coverage


The data team for GGEO undertook a global analysis of available data at the intersection of gender and environment. The result is a compilation of 17 indicators that provide the broadest coverage of countries. While these indicators represent a limited portion of the data and information needed to offer a comprehensive picture of gender aspects of environmental issues, compiling these indicators into one resource supports UN Environment’s environmental assessment processes and provides a baseline that also aligns with the SDGs.


The availability of data is important because of a simple tenet – what’s not counted doesn’t count. Limited information is available about the differences between women’s and men’s needs, resource uses, and


responsibilities across all of the subsectors


under sustainable development, environment, and conservation. Women’s roles in particular are often invisible in sectors such as biodiversity due to lack of comprehensive sex-disaggregated data and information.


The primary criterion used to select the 17 indicators was the availability of data that are separated by women and men on environment and sustainable development issues. In addition, the analysis focused on data that: provide coverage for the largest number of countries; datasets where country-level information is made available online; data that are relatively recent (post 2010); and data from major multilateral institutions (to ensure integrity of the research). Additional data and information, including country-level studies and qualitative information, were collected for use in the Global Gender and Environment Outlook report.


The 17 indicators are grouped into 5 categories: 212


Under the Agricultural work and food security category, data are available from Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on the female share of a country’s economically active population in agriculture, and on the agricultural share of economically active women. Also under this category, sex-disaggregated data on agricultural employees are available from International Labour Organisation (ILO), and data from World Health Organisation (WHO) are available on the prevalence of anaemia among pregnant women, often used to measure food security.


Under the Access to land and non-land assets category, data are available from the Gender, Institutions, and Development Database (GID-DB) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on secure access to land, land title owned by women, and secure access to non-land assets. Also under this category, data are available from FAO on female agricultural holders and women’s legal property and inheritance rights.


Under the Water and sanitation category, data is available from the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation of WHO and UNICEF on access to improved drinking water and sanitation in female and male headed households and water collection roles. Also under this category, sex- disaggregated data is available from UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) on time spent on water collection, and sex-disaggregated data are available from The World’s Women produced by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs on water collection and time burdens, deaths associated with unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene issues, and water-related extreme climate events.


Under the Health impacts of indoor and outdoor air pollution category, sex-disaggregated data are available on the burden of disease from household air pollution (HAP) and burden of disease from ambient air pollution (AAP) from World Health Organisation (WHO).


Under the Female participation in environmental institutions


and education category, sex-


disaggregated data are available from the Global Forest Resource Assessment of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) on the percentage of female staff in public forest institutions by region, and on the percentage of female graduates in forest-related education. Also under this category are data on female graduates in science, agriculture, engineering, manufacturing, and construction from United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).


The following chart outlines the 17 indicators, and their relation to targets under the Sustainable Development Goals.


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