The role of Tweets in understanding family violence during COVID-19

Big data can serve as a short-term solution in understanding family violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent academic article,…

Using the COVID Behaviors Dashboard

Official statistics faced limitations during the COVID-19 pandemic. For examples, traditional surveyors were unable to go door to door. To…

Using CARE’s Rapid Gender Analysis for emergencies

In any disaster scenario, CARE’s Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) identifies and meets the needs and capacities of women and men,…

Using Facebook’s Disaster Maps to understand how men and women are displaced differently

Big data can fill the gap in understanding how populations are affected after a natural disaster. As part of its…

Providing gender-relevant data during crises

There is a gender data gap in understanding how men and women are impacted in humanitarian settings. A study from…

Using the Gender-Age Marker tool during project design and monitoring

Having high-quality and disaggregated data are important for monitoring and evaluating outcomes in development programs. The Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Gender-Age…

Using the Data Playbook to improve data literacy

To support decision-making during disasters, data literacy is crucial for development and humanitarian practitioners. The International Federation of the Red…

Approaches and methods to measure economic empowerment of women and girls

What are the ways of measuring the economic empowerment of women and girls? An article for Gender & Development Journal…

Using USAID’s gender and ICT toolkit

To ensure that ICT4D programs are adequately implemented, it is important to monitor to assess how these programs address gender…

Using LinkedIn data to measure gender diversity

Measuring women in leadership positions closes one dimension on the gender data gap on economic empowerment. This goes beyond employment…