The

Environment

and Gender

Index (EGI)

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

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

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

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

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

The EGI Framework

72 Countries Worldwide

OECD 8

Latin America

and Caribbean

7 Africa

20

MENA

8

Asia

13

Eurasia

8

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

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 5 2 Ecosystem 85 6 6 3 Gender-based rights and participation 73 5 5

4 Governance 87 8 8 5 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%

Examples of Country Performance

Examples of Country Performance

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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 India Tanzania Morocco

2 Kenya Ghana S. Africa Mexico Yemen

3 Ghana Malawi Kenya Kenya Ghana

New Dataset: Women Delegates to COPs

New Dataset: Gender-Responsive Projects

Before and After Gender Policy

New Dataset: Women Ministers of Environment

and Environment-Related Ministries

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

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

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