Using basic tools to enhance data usability and literacy

Data literacy and analysis tools should be inclusive so that no one is left behind. DataBasic developed analysis tools to…

Ensuring sex-disaggregated data collection on voter registration and election turnouts

Collecting disaggregated data on election data provides insights gendered in gender differences in voter participation and turnout. UN Women and…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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 sex- and age-disaggregated data in humanitarian response

Humanitarian aid remains largely driven by anecdote rather than by evidence, where the contemporary humanitarian system has significant gaps in…

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….