Concept of Thailand’s Gender Information Center

Thailand’s Gender Information Center is a unit in developing knowledge, supporting research, being a focal point in transmitting information technology relates on gender equality by using sex- disaggregated data base collection.

 

Mandate and Functions
    1. Gender Information Technology  Center
    - Define type of information for analyzing policy and indicators
    - Encourage and promote other organizations to disaggregate gender data
    - Establish information system and network
    - Publicize information
    - Analyze and publicize research data
 
    2. Develop  Information Technology System  in order to create  information base for planning women implementation , for example; gender statistics in politics, education, health, labour, and Thai women’s status
    3. Promote gender equality knowledge
    - Analyze and publicize sex-disaggregated data collection, gender status, and gender equality
    - Promote information technology system for  strengthening  network capacity in collecting and using gender data
    - Develop information technology system  for heading to gender equality policies and measures
    - Encourage and develop knowledge and learning process
 
Thailand’s Gender Information Center develops information technology system for creating gender based information for developing policies, plans, and measures on gender equality. The development focuses on statistics in various aspects such as politics, health, education, labour, and current status of women by implementing in three aspects as follows:
    1. Data  Warehouse
 
    1. Data  Warehouse
1) Gender Data Warehouse

Gender Data Warehouse is a collecting system of the Office of Women’s Affairs and Family Development. This system is designed for collecting, analyzing and processing data from both internal and external organizations. The system will select data, which relates on gender equality implementation to collect in warehouse. The data base consists of 1) Gender based data system 2) Gender and women research bibliography, gender and women specialists.
    2) Women’s Status  Reports and Indicators

The reports and indicators focus on twelve international concerned issues in Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
    3) Gender Analysis

Gender Analysis is analyzes and compares women status indicators from the past until at present in order to predict a trend of women status and situation

 
    2. Research Data Base

In research aspect, the Office of Women’s Affairs and Family Development develops research data system by collecting research directory and abstract which relates on gender and women issues.
 
    3. Information Technology

The Office of Women’s Affairs and Family Development has established website for being a gender information center by developing database, and collecting updated gender and women’s news and information.

 
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