A Data L.I.F.T. for Gender Equality

Leverage existing data.

Increase data and funding.

Fuel political will.

Transform the enabling environment.

Too often women and girls are invisible to decision-makers because data about their lives and experiences is incomplete or missing. These data gaps are a problem in a world where data drives policy and decision-making. If we’re not measuring it, we can’t change it.

With gender data and accountability a cross-cutting issue for the Generation Equality Forum, speakers from Africa, Asia-Pacific and with a global remit will highlight why gender data is vital, what their organisation is doing to drive action as well as discussing the commitments they seek from others and the priorities for Action Coalitions to lift standards and resources for tangible results. Also hear the gender data demands of diverse feminist voices around the world.

The event will have live closed captions.

Speakers

Amanda Austin - Head of Policy and Advocacy, Equal Measures 2030

Emily Courey Pryor - Executive Director, Data2X

Fridah Githuku - Executive Director, GROOTS Kenya

Joanna Pradela - Director, Knowledge Translation and Equality Insights, IWDA

About the Organisations

Data2X

Data2X is a collaborative technical and advocacy platform, working through partnerships to improve the availability, quality, and use of gender data to make a practical difference in the lives of women and girls worldwide. Through our research, advocacy, and communications, we build the case and mobilize action for gender data to make it central in global efforts to achieve gender equality. Additionally, we strengthen the production and use of gender data by working with data producers and users to ensure that data collection methods are unbiased, policy-relevant, and gender-sensitive.

Equal Measures 2030

Equal Measures 2030 is a collaboration of national, regional and global leaders from feminist networks, civil society, international development and the private sector. We connect data and evidence with advocacy and action on gender equality, to transform the lives of women and girls and realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs.)

GROOTS KENYA

GROOTS Kenya is a grassroots movement building organization, comprising of over 3,500 women–led grassroots groups. The organization was founded in 1995 at the Beijing Conference in China in response to weak visibility pf grassroots women in development. The organization’s mission is to facilitate effective engagement of grassroots women and girls in development. For 26 years the organization has strategically relied on official and community-generated data and evidence to equip grassroots advocates to drive demand for accountability from local, national and international governments.

International Women's Development Agency (IWDA)

International Women’s Development Agency resources diverse women’s rights organisations primarily in Asia and the Pacific and contributes to global feminist movements through advocacy, knowledge creation and translation. Our Equality Insights program works to make gender-sensitive measurement of multidimensional poverty and inequality the norm and gender data central to transformative change. IWDA is a member of Action Coalition 6 on women’s leadership and movement building.