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  The future of US aid

  The future of US aid

  How should USAID fund differently to hit its localization targets?

  27 Sep 2023

  If USAID wants to change who it funds, it will need to change how it funds. So what are some ways that USAID could fund differently in order to hit its localization targets?

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  Data and Development

  Data and Development

  Statistical support gets a rethink with new finance clearinghouse

  7 Oct 2021

  A finance clearinghouse launched at the U.N. World Data Forum seeks to connect data needs with funding opportunities in real time. This is just the beginning of a shift toward greater trust and transparency within the data for development space, experts say.

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  Climate change

  Climate change

  How climate change and gender-based violence are connected

  4 Jun 2021

  As donors begin to explore the links between environmental issues and GBV, experts say "we can't close our eyes" to the issue anymore.

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  Gender equality

  Gender equality

  At CSW, advocates see positive signs for US policy on gender equality

  26 Mar 2021

  Amid the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, advocates are speculating how the U.S. administration’s early show of support for equality will translate to policy and funding action.

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  Gender equality

  Gender equality

  The care economy costs women. It’s time to pay up, advocates say at CSW

  18 Mar 2021

  COVID-19 has shown the economy depends on women’s unpaid work. Short-term responses should be rolled into systemic change, according to experts at the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

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  Focus on: Gender data

  Focus on: Gender data

  Gender data: How expensive is it, really?

  1 Oct 2020

  There are multiple reasons for the gender data gaps that existed long before COVID-19 — but financing shouldn't be one of them, experts tell Devex.

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  COVID-19

  COVID-19

  At a Ugandan factory, workers prove that 'periods don't pause for pandemics'

  6 Aug 2020

  To follow government orders and keep sanitary pad business AFRIpads open during the pandemic, 60 workers lived on the premises for four months.

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  Focus on: Gender data

  Focus on: Gender data

  Q&A: What early data says about gendered impacts of COVID-19

  1 Jun 2020

  UN Women rolled out surveys in multiple countries in Asia and the Pacific just weeks after the pandemic was declared. Statistics specialist Sara Duerto Valero explains how the agency was able to act so quickly, and what the data reveals so far about the impacts of the crisis on men and women.

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  Focus on: Gender data

  Focus on: Gender data

  Has it become too dangerous to measure violence against women?

  6 May 2020

  Collecting data on gender-based violence is a sensitive endeavor under any circumstance. Devex asks experts what it looks like now — when women may be in lockdown with their abusers.

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  Focus on: Gender data

  Focus on: Gender data

  A new experiment will direct data at crowdsourced gender questions

  13 Apr 2020

  Instead of 100 datasets, GovLab co-founder Stefaan Verhulst says he would rather have 100 questions. The research center’s new initiative seeks to identify the world’s most pressing problems and then create data collaboratives to solve them.

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