UN Women has embarked on a flagship programme, Making Every Women and Girl Count (MEWGC). The ultimate objective with this programme is to Support the monitoring and implementation of the SDGs through better production and use of gender statistics.  Within the programme there are both projects at country level, at regional leval and global level. The programme period stretches from April 2016 to February 2021, including an inception phase. The principle objective at country level amis to provide technical support to countries, to improve both production and use of gender statistics, including developing plans for monitoring the SDGs. By increasing the quality and availability of data several actors in society, such as officials, civil society and academia can use data in dialogue, policy development and lobby work to hold governments accountable. With putting gender statistics on the agenda, there will be  more evidence based choices in the work to implement the gender goals in the SDGs. Twelve countries have been selected as pathfinder countries, based on a process with specific criteria (Albania, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya, Uganda, Senegal, Tanzania, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Morocco, Colombia and Jordan). At the regional level, technical projects have dual objectives, 1) to provide direct technical support to countries in their region, including both pathfinder and non-pathfinder countries (based on demands), and ii) to work closely with regional partners, particularly with UN Regional Commissions to strengthen collaboration and coordination and support countries to localize the SDGs. Partnerships will be developed with civil society organizations and there will be activities to promote South-South cooperation and sharing of best practices.The objective on global level is to oversee implementation of all MEWGC activities, and synthesize and disseminate lessons learned from national and regional activities. The programme supports global monitoring of SDG gender-related goals and targets. Advocacy work and support are done both in relation to UN and non-UN partners. In addition, there is technical work to develop internationally agreed standards and methodologies.  In addition to activities at national, regional and global levels, UN Women has within the MEWGC developed a joint global programme, together with WHO, to improve statistics on violence against women for monitoring SDG indicator 5.2 and to fill data gaps in this area. There is a specific focus on psychological violence, violence against older women and violence against women with disabilities. Together with the Government of Mexico, UN Women has also established a Global Centre of Excellence on Gender Statistics (CEGS), with the aim to strengthen gender statistics through collaboration, knowledge sharing, research and innovation. The Sida contribution will consist of 80 M SEK over the period 2018-2022.