New Database Additions  Short Summary Title CEDAW Indicators for South Asia Author UNIFEM South Asia Regional Office/CENWOR Publication Date August 2004 Publisher The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and The Centre for Women’s Research (CENWOR) Summary One way of strengthening the implementation of CEDAW is to develop monitoring indicators to help each country track progress. This resource provides qualitative and quantitative indicators for monitoring the implementation of CEDAW by South Asian countries in the following sectors: law, education, employment, health, and the rural sector. Quantitative indicators - such as numbers of literate women, rates of maternal mortality, and rates of labour force participation - are used to measure the extent to which gender discrimination has been eliminated. Qualitative indicators focus instead on legislative and institutional arrangements, and programmes and policies that are conducive to implementing the rights referred to in each article of CEDAW - for example, legalisation on equal inheritance rights and quotas for women in local and national legislative bodies. Document file size: 190 KB Complete Document View PDF (Portable Document Format)