Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics (IAEG-GS)

The global gender statistics programme of the United Nations Statistics Division aims at developing concepts and methods, supporting and enhancing national statistical offices’ capacity and fostering inter-agency collaboration and cooperation for the development of statistics to address gender-based policy issues. UNSD serves as Secretariat of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics (IAEG-GS) first convened in 2006. The IAEG-GS functions through three advisory groups on gender statistics databases and indicators, gender statistics training and gender statistics legislation, respectively.