While traditional data disaggregation — separating data by gender, age, or income — helps identify disparities, it often misses how multiple factors overlap. Intersectional data allows us to see the full picture.
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) this year looked at how data can drive change for women and girls, emphasizing that comprehensive, accessible, and inclusive data are essential both to making and tracking progress.
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) this year looked at how data can drive change for women and girls, emphasizing that comprehensive, accessible, and inclusive data are essential both to making and tracking progress.
Topics at this year’s United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) ranged from the new System of National Accounts (SNA), to the 2030 Population and Housing Census, the new framework for Citizen Data, SDG progress, time use surveys, data financing, and the impact of AI. Six key takeaways emerged.
Topics at this year’s United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) ranged from the new System of National Accounts (SNA), to the 2030 Population and Housing Census, the new framework for Citizen Data, SDG progress, time use surveys, data financing, and the impact of AI. Six key takeaways emerged.
This brief provides a practical guide for planning to build better data systems by integrating intersectionality at each stage of the data value chain, improving the quality and value of data, and creating meaningful impact.
After years of collaboration to build more inclusive and responsive data systems; Open Data Watch welcomes Meriem Ait Ouyahia as the Gender Data Network Coordinator.
As 2024 draws to a close, ODW looks backs on a decade of growth and learning — supporting countries to transform their data ecosystems, monitoring and promoting high-quality data and standards, providing research and data support to both countries and agencies, and leveraging combined substantive and networking resources to offer practical policy advice to improve data systems.
As 2024 draws to a close, ODW looks backs on a decade of growth and learning — supporting countries to transform their data ecosystems, monitoring and promoting high-quality data and standards, providing research and data support to both countries and agencies, and leveraging combined substantive and networking resources to offer practical policy advice to improve data systems.
National data systems have grown significantly in the last decade, but still fall short in delivering actionable insights needed by policymakers to make better financing decisions for better development outcomes.