This document provides an introduction to a new guidebook for mainstreaming gender perspectives and household production into national statistics, budgets, and policies in Africa. The guidebook aims to address the failure of conventional economics to account for all economic activity, especially unpaid work. It provides methodologies for collecting gender-disaggregated data on household production through tools like time-use surveys and satellite accounts. This will allow policymakers to better consider the household economy and its impacts on gender equality, poverty reduction, and national development. The guidebook is intended to build the capacity of statisticians, accountants, and analysts to integrate women's unpaid labor and the household sector into policymaking across Africa.