Tunisia

Mr. Hédi Saidi Director NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS 70, Rue Ech-cham BP 265 CEDEX, Tunisia Tel:+216-71 891 002/ 801 416 Fax: +216-71 792 559 E-mail: INS@mdci.gov.tn Gender Focal Points or Gender Units: Ms. Arbia Ferchcichi Ep. Hammami Principal Technician 70, Rue Ech-cham BP 265 CEDEX Tel: +216-71 891 002 Fax: +216-71 792 559 E-mail: arbiaferchichi@yahoo.fr

Background

Objectives

Gender Statistics Publications

Women and Men in Tunis (English) E/ESCWA/STAT/2001/2

This booklet provides a statistical portrait of the different roles of women and men in Tunisia based on the original Arabic document that was produced by the Ministry of Women and Family Affairs. The document portrays the status of women in Tunisia as compared to men by describing gender gaps and evaluating equity trends in all areas - social, economic, political and public. The booklet serves as an awareness-raising tool among policy makers, shedding light on the importance of improving the status of women through the adoption of corrective measures in women-related issues. (English, 100 pgs)

http://css.escwa.org.lb/scu-countryreports/TunisiaEN.pdf

Gender-focused publications

Family in number (MFFE) 2010 (French) Electronic copy

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HANDBOOKS

Country Gender Profile (Japan International Cooperation Agency Planning and Coordination Department) 2004 (English) http://www.jica.go.jp/activities/issues/gender/pdf/e04tun.pdf

GENDER-BASED SURVEYS

National Survey on Violence Against Women http://www.medcities.org/documents/10192/54940/Enqu%C3%AAte+Nationale+Violence+envers+les+femmes-+Tunisie+2010.pdf National Family and Population Board 2010 (French)

Budget temps des femmes et des homes en Tunisie Ministry of affairs for Women, family, Children & the Elderly (2010) Electronic copy

TECHNICAL MATERIALS

Equality and Discrimination between Women and Men in the Tunisian Legislation http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Events/IWD2016/LoisDiscriminatoires_FR.pdf

This book, Empowering women: employment and entrepreneurship, is a synthetic and precious testimony, first on the socio-economic situation of Tunisian women entrepreneurs, and secondly, on the same conditions of production of knowledge on such a subject CREDIF French copy 2014 (pdf)

RELATED REPORTS ON WOMEN

Reply of Tunisia to the Questionnaire to Governments on Implementation of the BEIJING Platform for Action (1995) and the Outcome of the Twenty-Third Special Session of the General Assembly (20000 2005 (English) http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/Review/responses/TUNISIA-English.pdf

CEDAW REPORTS Third & fourth reports 2002 http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/reports.htm#k

Rapport national Beijing +20 Secrétariat d’Etat de la femme et de la Famille (2014) http://www.unfpa-tunisie.org/images/stories/2015/publication/Beijing%2020%20PDFop.pdf

The "Gender Profile of Tunisia" has been prepared within the framework of EU cooperation European with the Government of the Republic of Tunisia, with the aim of taking better into account gender issues in the identification of a new program promoting equality man-woman-in Tunisia. This is a diagnosis of the socio-economic and gender policy and Men, legislative and legal framework in relation to the issue of equality, mechanisms institutional, major public policies and community interventions International in support of gender equality in Tunisia. (French copy) 2014

http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/tunisia/documents/page_content/profil_genre_tunisie2014_longue_fr.pdf

This report on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (1995) and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2000) has been prepared in accordance with questionnaire guidelines to governments in to complement existing information and facilitate the review and evaluation that will lead the Commission on the status of Women. (French copy)

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/Review/responses/TUNISIA-French.pdf

Tunisia has set November 25, 2008 a national Lute strategy against all forms of violence against women, and to raise awareness and protect against French and arabic

http://www.onfp.nat.tn/liens/violence_prise_charge_intersectorielle_2015.pdf

Violence against women whose magnitude was measured by the national survey on violence

against women in Tunisia (ENVEFT 2009) conducted by the National Board for Family and

Population in this context an agreement was established between the National Board for

Family and Population and CIDEAL foundation with the support of the European union

the objectives of the study are intended to document the experiences of domestic violence the circuit through the surviving wife, the needs and expectations of women victims of domestic violence

Brochure

http://www.onfp.nat.tn/liens/violence_nord_ouest_resultats_2015.pdf

As part of the integration of gender approach in the production of statistics and indicators in-

depth studies on the situation of women in Tunisia, the National Statistics Institute, with the

support of UN Women, has implemented a thorough analysis Porgramm Kind of available

data, and a reporting mechanism for periodic Gender according to international standards.

The National Statistics Institute try to consolidate and centralize data relating directly or

indirectly Genre produced in one report to facilitate the assessment of differences between

men and women in the various aspects of development, by making all relevant statistical

reports genre accessible to a wide audience.

also starting from the general census of population and housing 2014 (RGPH2014) which

came at the right time to give a real socioeconomic and comprehensive picture to describe

the demographic, economic, educational and living conditions to the Tunisian population.

2016

French and Arabic

http://www.unfpa-tunisie.org/images/stories/pdfs/cedaw%20francais.pdf 2011 Arabic and French copy

The gender-based violence in Tunisia state places This report aims to provide a review of the literature and programs of action to take stock on the work on violence against women.Tunisia and identify the most stock research interesting in this field in the country arabomusulmans.Following this inventory and analysis,This involves identifying relevant axes for research andfor violence-related intervention strategygender 2007 (French copy) http://www.derechosaludreproductiva.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/04-La_VFG_en_Tunisie_Etat_des_Lieux.pdf

guide de référence pour traiter l’image des femmes dans les médias

http://femmesdemocrates.org.tn/publications/

survey on women's working conditions in rural areas

http://femmesdemocrates.org.tn/publications/

http://planipolis.iiep.unesco.org/upload/Tunisia/Tunisia_MDG_2013.pdf