Gender Equality Index: Measuring progress in the Western Balkans

Gender Equality Index: Measuring progress in the Western Balkans 7 Introduction Introducing the Gender Equality Index in the Western Balkans and Türkiye Albania The first Gender Equality Index for Albania (2020) (5) was developed by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the Institute of Statistics of the Republ. [...] Bosnia and Herzegovina The Gender Equality Index for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2022 (6) was developed by the Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Agency for Gender Equality of Bosnia and Her- zegovina and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in cooperation with EIGE. [...] Though the calculation was done with the available data for only three domains of the Gender Equality Index, it supports the establishment of an evidence base for future efforts in achieving gender equality in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the development of the full Gender Equality Index in the future. [...] The Gender Equality Index for Serbia was a result of the cooperation between the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, the Coordination Body for Gender Equality and the Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Unit of the Government of Serbia (supported by Switzerland during the development of the first two reports), UN Women (supported by the EU) and EIGE. [...] Similarly, In the absence of harmonised and comparable non-partner physical or sexual violence from the data suitable for the calculation of the Gender age of 15 is the least prevalent in North Macedo- Equality Index in the domain of VAW, this report nia and the most prevalent in Albania, while in the refers to the only comparable data for the coun- last 12 months preceding the survey the preva- t.