Providing financial support to surveys on gender-based violence

Donors play an important role in filling the gender data gap on violence. In 2020, the Bill and Melinda Gates…

Developing and using the Laws on Violence against Women and Girls Index

To understand the severity of gender-based violence across the world, global indexes can provide such information from a comparative analysis….

Using gender to measure acute coronary syndrome

To measure gender and its association with risk factors in patients with premature acute coronary syndrome, researchers at McGill University…

Using existing toolkits to monitor sexual and reproductive health services during COVID-19

Toolkits are important in guiding healthcare practitioners in properly collecting data on healthcare services. In the context of the COVID-19…

Integrating the Strategy for the Harmonization of Statistics in Africa’s module on governance, peace and security data

Many household surveys can be adapted to integrate new survey modules. The Strategy for the Harmonization of Statistics in Africa…

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 open data to understand femicides

Civil society organizations can play the role as a “watchdog” in assessing the quality of gender-based violence data– including data…

Using social media to understand gender-based violence during elections

While there are existing tools to measure gender-based violence in households, measuring data beyond households– especially at a time of…

Linking national IDs and CRVS system with gender disaggregation

Birth certificates are a crucial source of document in obtaining a national identification, illustrating how civil registration and vital statistics…

An e-learning courses on CRVS including a gender component

Online courses can help national civil registrars to learn ways in improving their civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems….