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…

The African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in partnership with Data2x has initiated a project aimed at improving the production and use of gender data within National Statistics Systems through the creation of a strong and vibrant network. This Network proposes to pilot in selected African countries…

MeasureDev 2020 is brought to you by CEGA in partnership with the World Bank’s ​Development Impact Evaluation​ (DIME)​ group and Innovations in Big Data Analytics​. Join this virtual conference to learn how new sources of “big” data–including call detail records, satellites, and remote sensing networks–are changing the landscape of global development, while offering timely research…

Following four years of research and refinement, the Individual Deprivation Measure’s important findings will be released in April next year at their global conference, Measure What Matters: Data to leave no one behind. It will bring together global thinkers and practitioners to showcase the value of gender sensitive data collected at the individual level, particularly…