The Technical Assistance Partnership—Expert Deployment Mechanism (TAP-EDM) and Canadian experts Sally Yacoub and Leigh-Anne Ingram is collaborating with the gender department of Ghana’s Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) to strengthen the use of gender-related data to support the adoption of the Affirmative Action Act (AAA). The AAA legislation aims to redress the social, cultural, economic, and political gender imbalance in the country and provide an accountability framework for gender equality to guide all government activities.
This initiative will foster the MoGCSP’s capacities to collect and analyze gender-disaggregated data, enabling the creation and dissemination of comprehensive gender equality statistics – notably in monitoring the implementation of the AAA. It will strengthen departmental leadership in conducting research and formulating or implementing policies to reduce gender disparities.
The work will involve developing a baseline and leveraging existing data on the current state of gender equality to implement the AAB. It will include developing a gender data toolkit, notably to support the implementation of the AAA. With the assistance of Sally and Leigh-Anne, training on gender data will be delivered to enhance the department’s capacity to collect and analyze data.
