Developing a specialized survey on femicides

When countries lack the capacity to utilize traditional survey data collections, civil society groups can take the lead on developing…

Creating country-based taskforces to improve data collection on human trafficking

To improve data collection on human trafficking, the British Embassy Jakarta, Human Rights Resource Centre, and Stanford University assessed the…

Using ACLED dataset on political violence against women

Academia and civil society organizations play a role in providing non-official data on political violence. The Armed Conflict Location and…

Closing the CRVS coverage gap by including marriages and divorce

Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) cover data across major moments in time: births, deaths, marriages, divorces. Major initiatives across…

Integrating verbal autopsies into CRVS

Less than a third of deaths are assigned without a cause, and low-income countries have the most gaps in cause-of-death-data….

Including the Washington Group on Disability Statistics questionnaires in surveys

Beyond sex-disaggregated data, it is crucial to collect data by disability status so researchers, practitioners, and policymakers can understand and…

Using ProPublica’s Lost Mothers, a dashboard of stories of maternal mortality in the US

Media organizations play a huge role in humanizing data to the general public. In order to raise awareness of the…

Using Performance Monitoring and Accountability surveys to monitor reproductive health

Civil society groups play an important role in providing data on family planning. Led by Family Planning 2020, the Performance…

Ensuring that femicides are not misreported as suicides

Existing cause-of-death data show suicide as the number one cause among adolescent girls globally. Yet, given the poor quality of…

Standardizing femicide data across Latin America and the Caribbean

Across many countries in Latin America, femicides are defined and classified differently. And without a regional standardization on femicide, there…