Manal Sweidan

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Personal information

Title: 
Head of Gender Statistics Divison at the Jordaninian Statistics Department
Birthyear: 
1967

Contact information (private)

Postbox: 
3011
Postal code: 
11181
City: 
Amman
Country: 
Jordan
Phone: 
00 962 (6) 5518568
Mobile phone: 
00 962 (79) 7194154 \ 00 962 (77) 7310021
Personal email address: 
manalsweidan@yahoo.com

Contact information (work)

Phone: 
00 962 (6) 5300700
Work email address: 
manal@dos.gov.jo
Work webpage: 
http://www.dos.gov.jo

Education

Master Degree in Hospital Administration-University of Jordan, 1991
BA Degree in Finance and Business Administration-Yarmouk University- Jordan, 1988
International Computer Driving License (ICDL)

Competences

Languages: 
Arabic
English

Jobs

Work history: 

(2004-Present) Ministry of Planning - Department of Statistics (DOS)
Head of Gender Statistics Division

-Establishing Data Base for Gender Statistics

-Prepare an Action Plan for the Division

-Participating in the Enhancement of Gender Awareness Among the Concerned Institutions Through Seminars, Meeting and Workshops

-Prepare Project Proposals and Documents Related to Gender Subjects

-Acting as Gender Statistics Trainer in Courses That Were Conducted in Cooperation With the UNIFEM and UNFFPA Agencies

-Conduct the Necessary Studies to Specify the Training Requirements of Employees on Gender Statistics

-Design, Implement and Evaluate Training Programs for the DOS Employees in Cooperation With the Concerned Institutions on Gender Issues

-Reviewing and Updating Women Website Page at the Department of Statistics Website

-Acting as A project Coordinator Between DOS and the Arab Women Organization for the Project Titled "Geographic Arab Women Data Base",2007

-Acting as A project Coordinator Between DOS and the World Bank Organization (WB) for Project Titled "Behind the Barriers: Women in Informal Work and Home-Based Entrepreneurship in Selected Cities in MENA", 2008

-Dos-Training Coordinator With the E- Government Training Programmes

-Dos-Training Coordinator With USAID Training Programmes

-National Coordinator of Med-Training Sub-Programmes Operating Under the Supervision of the Euro-Statistical Office (Eurostat)

-Participating in Organization Local and Global Conferences (Eur-Mediterranean Director General Statistical Office Meeting Amman 2002, Paris 21 Annual Meeting 2003 Amman, IAOS \ IASS Joint Conference Amman 2004

1997-2004 Head of Administrative Development Unit

-Participate in Developing A new Organizational Structure for DOS

-Prepare the Duties and Responsibilities of the Directorate, Divisions and Other Units at DOS

-Conduct the Necessary Studies to Specify the Training Requirements of Employees

-Participate in Developing New Administrative Authorizations

-Re-Designing of Administrative Forms

-Prepare Job Description of DOS Employees

-Design, Implement and Evaluate Training Programs for the DOS Employees in Cooperation With the Concerned Institution

Ministry of Higher Education

Substitute Teacher in Vocational Schools

Preparing Questions for the Comprehensive Examinations

Correcting and Evaluating the Answer Sheets of the Comprehensive Examinations

Productions and works: 
"Gender Statistics Between Present and Futer" A paper and a power Point Presentation Presented at 2nd Inter-Agency and Expert Group Meeting (IAEGM) on Gender Statistics in the Arab Region Beirut, 12-14 October 2009
"Jordanian Experience on Measuring Informal Employment and Employment in the Informal Sector" A paper and A power Point Presentation Presented at the United Nation Inter Agency Expert Group Meeting, Accra, Ghana, 2009
Engendering Population Census, The Jordanian Experience" " A paper and A power Point Presentation Presented at the United Nation Inter Agency Expert Group Meeting, Italy, 2007 (Published Paper)
Gender Statistics at the Department of Statistics (DOS) Jordan" A power Point Presentation Presented at the Euro-Statistical Office (Eurostat) MEDSTAT ll Task Force Meeting on Social Statistics-Luxemburg, 2007
Mapping Women's Empowerment in Jordan (English Version) Presented at Women as A global Leaders International Conference- United Arab Emirates, 2006 (Published Paper)
Mapping Women's Empowerment in Jordan (Arab Version) Presented at Women ,Migration and Human Rights Regional Seminar-Jordan, 2006 (Published Paper)
Determinants of Women Participation in the Jordanian Labor Market-Presented at Gender Equity Through Statistics (GEMS) Experts Meeting-Syria, 2005 (Published Paper)
Women's Participation in the Public Life of Jordan -Presentrd at the Development and Human Rights Conference-Switzerland, 2000 (Published Paper)
2nd Inter-Agency and Expert Group Meeting (IAEGM) on Gender Statistics in the Arab Region Beirut,12-14 October 2009
1st Meeting for the Task Force on Gender Statistics-Beirut, 15-16 October 2009
Regional Expert-Group Meeting on GBV Research; Concepts, Data, Methodology and Tools. Euro-Med Project "Enhancing Equality Between Men and Women in the Euro-Med Region", 20-23 April 2009, Tunis
Expert Group Meeting on "Suggesting A group of Indicators for CEDAW", Arab Women Organization, Cairo-Egypt,2008
UNECE Work Session on Gender Statistics & Joint UNECE\WBI Workshop on Gender Statistics 6-8 October 2008,Geneva, Switzerland
WBI\UNECE Workshop on Gender Statistics Training Programmes, 9-10 October 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
International Conference "United Nations Inter-Agency and Expert Group Meeting on the Development of Gender Statistics", December, United Nations Statistics Division, Italy, 2007
Euro-Statistical Office (Eurostat) MEDSTAT ll Task Force Meeting on Social Statistics- Luxemburg, 2007
Workshop for Arab Women Data Base Project - Cairo,2007
International Conference "Women as A global Leaders" - United Arab Emirates, 2006
International Conference "United Nations Inter-Agency and Expert Group Meeting on the Development of Gender Statistics, December, United Nations Statistics Division, New York, 2006
"Gender Equity Through Statistics (GEMS) Experts Meeting" - Syria, 2005
International Conference "Development and Human Rights" Switzerland, 2000