One year after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, a large number of organizations have learned a similar lesson: the world has to invest in better gender-specific data to track progress toward inclusive development.
A new public-private partnership dedicated to producing and collecting “gender data,” or data disaggregated by sex, received a $11 million boost at its United Nations headquarters kick-off event Wednesday afternoon.
Women and girls are routinely not counted in global and national data collected on health, education, political participation, and human security, according to the U.N. Foundation-led organization Data 2X. These data gaps “limit our ability to track progress” on gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in video remarks at the event, Making Every Woman and Girl Count.
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Amy Lieberman is the U.N. Correspondent for Devex. She covers the United Nations and reports on global development and politics. Amy previously worked as a freelance reporter, covering the environment, human rights, immigration, and health across the U.S. and in more than 10 countries, including Colombia, Mexico, Nepal, and Cambodia. Her coverage has appeared in the Guardian, the Atlantic, Slate, and the Los Angeles Times. A native New Yorker, Amy received her master’s degree in politics and government from Columbia’s School of Journalism.
