Do you want to improve how the City of Los Angeles measures community sustainability? Join us to understand how the City of Los Angeles measures our work related to the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals and how to improve the way we measure poverty and homelessness. Global experts will be discussing these issues and a working…
The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women is taking place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March 2019. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations from all regions of the world are attending the session.
The ODI Summit is the ODI’s flagship event covering critical issues around data and its roles and impacts across sectors – from commercial business to public services, the arts to charities. Keynotes, interactive panels, performances and demos will uncover how we can create positive impacts for organisations and societies, and make data work for everyone.…
With only ten years remaining to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, there is an increased demand for inclusive, high-quality data to drive progress. This event will showcase the results of a five-year research program on big data and gender, featuring groundbreaking projects that investigated the potential of new data sources to answer critical questions about…
The Regional Workshop and Meeting on Improving Availability and Coordination Mechanism of Gender Statistics in Africa discusses how to improve capacity and strengthen gender data including the development of a minimal set of gender statistics in Africa. The agenda covers topics ranging from coordination of gender statistics by various levels of institutions, to steps required and a roadmap for effective coordination, to an assessment of current status and best practices in countries, to stategies for bridging gaps in gender statistics.
The 50th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission established a Friends of the Chair Group (FOCG) on Economic Statistics. The Commission requested that the Friends of the Chair Group convene meetings over the next year to discuss whether the current planned updates meet the needs of a future state of the system of economic…
Data2X, the Financial Alliance for Women and the team working on Celo are delighted to cordially invite you to Moving from Gender Neutral to Gender Intelligent: Inclusive Digital Finance for Women, the final session of the Data Driving Action for Women Dialogue Series. Data2X’s Women’s Financial Inclusion Data (WFID) partnership is encouraging catalytic action by…
The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) and the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD) organize the joint PARIS21-UNSD Conference New approaches to capacity development for better data: How to scale up innovation? which will take place on 13-14 January 2020 at the OECD La Muette Conference Center in Paris, France. This…
The Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has set out to inspire global commitment to integrating gender analysis across activities that strengthen CRVS systems. The aim of this conference, co-hosted by IDRC, Open Data Watch, and UNFPA, is to assess progress made to the Civil Registration and Vital…
The United Nations Statistical Commission, established in 1947, is the highest body of the global statistical system. It brings together Chief Statisticians from member states around the world and is the highest decision making body for international statistical activities, setting statistical standards and developing concepts and methods for their implementation at national and international levels.…
In 2020, the global community will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). A five-year milestone will be reached towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 2020 is therefore a pivotal year for the…
Please join Data2X for a webinar to learn more about our new report, Mapping Gender Data Gaps: An SDG Era Update. Through this webinar, top researchers and practitioners will: discuss methodologies used to identify gender data gaps across six key areas (economic opportunities, education, environment, health, human security, and public participation); reflect on areas where…
