Data2X announced six regional and topical partnerships - on issues such as women's employment, health and poverty - to advance a gender data revolution and identify innovative sources of data that can provide an evidence base to inform the post-2015 development agenda, and guide development policy and investment.
The UN Foundation runs the Data2X initiative with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Foundation.
16 December 2014: Data2X announced six regional and topical partnerships – on issues such as women’s employment, health and poverty – to advance a gender data revolution and identify innovative sources of data that can provide an evidence base to inform the post-2015 development agenda, and guide development policy and investment. The UN Foundation runs the Data2X initiative with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Foundation.
Data2X is named for the power of women to multiply progress in their societies. It aims to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment by building partnerships to improve data collection and demonstrate how better data on the status of women and girls can inform global development agendas, guide policy and leverage investments.
The partnerships will focus on six data categories. To address civil registration and vital statistics, Data2X will collaborate with the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). On women’s work and empowerment, Data2X will partner with the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the World Bank to analyze women’s contributions to the formal and informal global economy, including through unpaid work. Data2X, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the Global Banking Alliance for Women will work to collect data on women’s access to financial service and service gaps, with the aim of closing the gender gap in financial services.
Data2X, UN Global Pulse, UN Women and academia are collaborating on big data and gender, including to analyze women’s financial activity, mobility and socioeconomic welfare. To better understand women’s well-being, Data2X is partnering with the Government of Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). Data2X also will work to inform US development policy and investment in collaboration with the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the new partnerships at an event in New York, the US, on 16 December 2014, hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies. [Data2x Website] [Data2x Press Release]