Getting Precise about Gender and Sex Measurement: A Primer for Epidemiologists
The report emphasizes the need for a paradigm shift in how gender and sex are conceptualized and measured within epidemiological studies. It critiques the reliance ...
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In this section, you can read about real world examples of gender integration from Data for Health countries. See how countries like Thailand and Colombia are approaching the work using a systematic review of current gender measures.
General
Femicide and Impunity in Mexico: A context of structural and generalized violence
This CEDAW report provides insight on the femicide crisis and gender-based violence in Mexico. It documents how deficiencies in data collection, analysis, and legal enforcement ...
Solutions to Close Gender Data Gaps
This report and the accompanying Gender Data Solutions Inventory document innovative solutions that have emerged in the last five years. An analysis of the inventory ...
Advancing Gender Data and Statistics in Africa
The report highlights a range of activities pursued by the Gender Data Network (GDN) in Africa relating to data production and curation, as well as ...
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Data Collection
Experiences in Reducing Inequalities in Birth Registration: Case Studies from the Pacific
UN ESCAP launched a project aimed at developing guidelines and providing technical support for conducting inequality assessments. The insights gained from these assessments are intended ...
Patchy signals: Capturing women’s voices in mobile phone surveys of rural India
In this article, the authors examine the challenges faced by women in rural India in accessing and utilizing mobile technology, especially mobile phone surveys. The ...
ConVERGE: Integrating Gender, Leveraging Censuses, and Building a Culture of Vital Statistics
This technical report summarizes the activities, results and lessons learned from Phase 1 of the ConVERGE (“Connecting Vital Events Registration and Gender Equality”) Initiative. Phase ...
Data Analysis
Analysis of Deaths Due to Gender-Based Violence: An Autopsy-based Cross-sectional Study from Mumbai
Gender-based violence is a global crisis with femicide or death being the most brutal culmination of the act. Femicide is a harrowing reminder of the ...
COVID-19, nutrition, and gender: An evidence-informed approach to gender-responsive policies and programs
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate and distressing effect on women and girls who have been affected across several social, economic, health and nutrition ...
Data Impact
Gender Data to Policy: NCDs in Cameroon
Cameroon is a West-Central African country with a population of approximately 27 million people. The current male to female sex ratio is close to 1:1. ...
Magna Carta of Women – A Data-Informed Policy to Revolutionize Women’s Empowerment in the Philippines
The Philippines Magna Carta of Women, enacted in August 2009, stands as a local commitment to the provisions in the Convention on the Elimination of ...
Final Report: ConVERGE Colombia
The primary objective of this activity, as part of the ConVERGE project, was to improve the processes for monitoring and ensuring the quality of vital ...