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among other priorities. These goals are interconnected, where the key to
success of one will involve tackling issues more commonly associated with
another. It is on this premise that the goal of attaining gender equality and
women empowerment can be associated with. Although there may be that
prevailing idea that the topic of gender, whether on equality or its
development, is exclusively for women and girls.
Gender is a whole lot more. It is not only for equality for women or girls; it
is also for the men or boys as well. The need for high quality statistics that will
echo the basis for policy and decision-making are important. Equally
important is the integration of statistics in capacity building programs that are
well understood and easily appreciated.
The Philippine Statistical Research and Training Institute (PSRTI) is the
mandated agency tasked to conduct statistical research and capability
building endeavors, including those topics dealing on Statistics for Gender and
Sustainable Development. The clientele or targeted participants of these
trainings are personnel in the Philippine Statistical System (PSS) and the public.
The PSS is composed of national government agencies that deal with
statistics/statistical data, either as a data producer or data user. Its main task
is to deliver quality statistical information to the public.
The PSRTI is expected to continuously upgrade the quality of statistical
personnel and expand the manpower base that will undertake statistical work
and contribute to the improvement of statistical activities. Every year, the
agency offers regular training courses on Statistics from the most fundamental
to the more advanced tools.
In developing the training materials on Statistics for Gender and
Sustainable Development, PSRTI collaborated with statistical experts, data
producers, and data users. The purpose of the training is to teach concepts
and methods encompassing social concerns regarding gender issues, and link
them to the technical and methodological aspects of statistics production and
use. Specifically, the training objectives are (i) awareness of the Sustainable
Development Goals with focus on Gender Equality; (ii) incorporation of gender
perspective in all stages of the data production process; (iii) identification of
gender issues (iv) integration of statistics on gender and sustainable
development; and (v) formulation of policies.
The capability-building course on Statistics for Gender and Sustainable
Development is a 5-day training from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (40 hours). The
target-training participants are policy-makers, planners, gender experts, the
public, national and international development agencies, NGOs, research
institutes, and media practitioners. Knowledge of basic computer operations
is required and data management using MS Excel® is a pre-requisite to this
course.

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