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3. The assessment of progress on a majority of the seven strategic priorities was made
on the basis of existing data. As noted in chapter 10, no country has data on the distribution
of land or housing ownership by sex, and few countries have data on the impact of
infrastructure investments on women’s time use or on the prevalence of violence against
women. In the absence of such data, we analyzed other country literature to deduce the
progress made in these areas.
4. The first impact study of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, which included South Africa, does not answer this question
(McPhedran and others 2000).
Appendix 1
1. Additional problems include the fact that censuses are usually conducted only once
every 10 years. In some cases countries report data from only one to three censuses. Trends
are therefore difficult to detect. And more than 30 countries have never published any kind
of literacy data. Also, UN agencies do not have the same data points for all countries.
2. A few changes were made to the original UNDP (2002) grouping of countries:
Southern European countries Turkey and Cyprus were merged in Europe and Central
Asia. Somalia was moved from Middle East and North Africa to Sub-Saharan Africa, and
Israel was moved from “Other UN member countries” to Middle East and North Africa.
3. Table A1.1 shows that 26 countries will have a ratio of 1 in 2005, and 20 countries
will have a ratio greater than 1. Of these, 32 countries had already achieved parity or a
reverse gap in 2000. The remaining 14 countries had ratios less than 1.
4. The other countries are Luxembourg, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa in East Asia
and Pacific; Tajikistan and Turkey in Europe and Central Asia; Colombia and El Salvador in
Latin America and the Caribbean; and Djibouti and Iraq in Middle East and North Africa.
5. The countries are Belgium, France, Italy; Myanmar; Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia TFYR, Poland; Chile, Guyana; Israel; and Mauritius.
6. The countries are Cambodia, China, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Papua
New Guinea, Samoa, Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Turkey, Guyana, Nicaragua,
Djibouti, Iraq, Israel, India, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Lesotho,
Mauritius, Mozambique, Senegal, Togo, and Uganda.
Appendix 6
1. This report was prepared by the moderator of the e-discussions, Akanksha A.
Marphatia. These comments are based on an earlier version of the report, and the current
version reflects many of the comments.
2. Contacts for these organizations are as follows: David Archer (ActionAid International),
Chike Anywanyu (Commonwealth Education Fund), Anne Jellema (Global
Campaign for Education), and Geeta Sharma, Kedar Dash, and Atanu Gurai (One World
South Asia).
3. The full report can be obtained from Elaine Unterhalter with the Beyond Access
Project: e.unterhalter@oie.ac.uk.
4. The paper is available at http://k1.ioe.ac.uk/schools/efps/GenderEducDev/Where
%20are%20we%20scaling%20up%20from%20FINAL%20FINAL.pdf.
5. Full article can be found at www.india-seminar.com, April 2004 issue.