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…

Providing better disaggregated data on femicides

Open data on femicide allows civil society groups to understand the quality and underlying gaps of these data. In the…

Using gridded population datasets for a more inclusive COVID-19 response

Beyond the traditional, tabulated format of data, gridded population represent the distribution of population in rows and columns of grid…

Harmonizing data collection standards for maternal health services

Before measuring the quality of care for women and newborns, it is important to understand what existing surveys and tools…

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…

Conducting education surveys to understand students’ schooling decisions

Existing education indicators mainly focus on the student body, participation in schools, student outcomes, teachers, and school facilities. While these…

Using open data to evaluate educational outcomes

Providing data use cases is important for producers and users of statistics to understand the potential of open data being…

Implementing a gender mainstreaming approach in agricultural data collection

Development data organizations have a responsibility to cultivate a gender-equitable environment. The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative…

How gender and sex-disaggregated data are critical for COVID-19 response

To understand the impacts of COVID-19 in health care systems around the world, gender analysis intersected with social and demographic…

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,…