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Proportion of seats held by Afrodescendent people in national parliaments and local governments.

Definition:

The proportion of seats held by Afrodescendent people in (a) national parliaments, currently as at 1 February of reporting year, is currently measured as the number of seats held by Afrodescendant people members in single or lower chambers of national parliaments, expressed as a percentage of all occupied seats (adaptation of SDG indicator 5.5.1 originally referring to women).

Disaggregation:

By sex

Notes:

SDG indicator 5.5.1 was defined for women and adapted here for people of African descent.

There is data and information on the proportion of seats held by Afrodescendants in national parliaments, but there is no established methodology for the proportion of seats held by Afrodescendants in local governments.

Some methodological issues related to the measurement of the indicator are contained in a preliminary version of the March 2016 metadata.

Further information at:

https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-05-05-01a.pdf.
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/files/metadata-compilation/Metadata-Goal-5.pdf.

Type

Quantitative

Priority Measures

I.92 - Respect for and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action with the full participation of people of African descent

Respect and implement the provisions of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action adopted at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, by adapting the legal frameworks and formulating the policies necessary for their implementation, with the full participation of Afro-descendent persons.

I.93 - Treatment of inequalities with and their presence in situations of discrimination in women and young people of African descent

Address gender, racial, ethnic and intergenerational inequalities, bearing in mind the way these dimensions overlap in situations of discrimination affecting women, especially young Afro-descendent women.

SDG

Topic

I. Afro-Descendants

I.92 - Respect for and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action with the full participation of people of African descent

I.93 - Treatment of inequalities with and their presence in situations of discrimination in women and young people of African descent

Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments (SDG indicator 5.5.1).

Existence of a State policy, plan or strategy that includes the provisions of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action.