(e) Establish direct links with national, regional and international bodies dealing with the advancement of women; (f) Provide training and advisory assistance to government agencies in order to integrate a gender perspective in their policies and programmes. Strategic objective H.3. Generate and disseminate genderdisaggregated data and information for planning and evaluation Actions to be taken 206. By national, regional and international statistical services and relevant governmental and United Nations agencies, in cooperation with research and documentation organizations, in their respective areas of responsibility: (a) Ensure that statistics related to individuals are collected, compiled, analysed and presented by sex and age and reflect problems, issues and questions related to women and men in society; (b) Collect, compile, analyse and present on a regular basis data disaggregated by age, sex, socio-economic and other relevant indicators, including number of dependants, for utilization in policy and programme planning and implementation; (c) Involve centres for women’s studies and research organizations in developing and testing appropriate indicators and research methodologies to strengthen gender analysis, as well as in monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the goals of the Platform for Action; (d) Designate or appoint staff to strengthen gender-statistics programmes and ensure coordination, monitoring and linkage to all fields of statistical work, and prepare output that integrates statistics from the various subject areas; (e) Improve data collection on the full contribution of women and men to the economy, including their participation in the informal sector(s); (f) Develop a more comprehensive knowledge of all forms of work and employment by: (i) (ii) (iii) Improving data collection on the unremunerated work which is already included in the United Nations System of National Accounts, such as in agriculture, particularly subsistence agriculture, and other types of non-market production activities; Improving measurements that at present underestimate women’s unemployment and underemployment in the labour market; Developing methods, in the appropriate forums, for assessing the value, in quantitative terms, of unremunerated work that is outside national accounts, such as caring for dependants and preparing food, for possible reflection in satellite or other official accounts that may be produced separately from but are -87-

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