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Barriers and Facilitators to Female Death Registration in Rangpur, Bangladesh: A Cross-sectional Qualitative Study

Despite a long-standing legal mandate for timely and accurate death registrations in the country, Bangladesh has persisting under-reporting of deaths with a pervasive gender disparity—particularly ...

Barriers and Facilitators to Female Death Registration in Kilimanjaro and Katavi, Tanzania: A Mixed-Methods Descriptive and Analytical Study

Despite Tanzania’s legal mandate requiring all deaths to be registered within 30 days, both national statistics and community-level evidence indicate that death registration, particularly for ...

The Gendered Assessment of Zambia’s Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System

This report identifies several barriers to accessing CRVS services, such as long distances to registration centers, lack of awareness of the importance of civil registration, ...

Let’s Eliminate Cervical Cancer: A Call for Inclusive Vaccine Coverage Against Human Papillomavirus in South Africa

Cervical cancer is the fourth most prevalent cancer worldwide, disproportionately affecting women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). South Africa experiences a particularly high burden ...

Economic Incentives Have Large Positive Impacts on Birth Registrations in Fiji

This policy brief highlights the success of economic incentives in increasing birth registrations in Fiji. The Parental Assistance Payment Programme saw a 77% increase in ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Barriers and Facilitators to Female Death Registration in Rangpur, Bangladesh: A Cross-sectional Qualitative Study

Barriers and Facilitators to Female Death Registration in Kilimanjaro and Katavi, Tanzania: A Mixed-Methods Descriptive and Analytical Study

The Gendered Assessment of Zambia’s Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System

Let’s Eliminate Cervical Cancer: A Call for Inclusive Vaccine Coverage Against Human Papillomavirus in South Africa

Economic Incentives Have Large Positive Impacts on Birth Registrations in Fiji

Getting Precise about Gender and Sex Measurement: A Primer for Epidemiologists

Femicide and Impunity in Mexico: A context of structural and generalized violence

Solutions to Close Gender Data Gaps

Advancing Gender Data and Statistics in Africa

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Experiences in Reducing Inequalities in Birth Registration: Case Studies from the Pacific

Patchy signals: Capturing women’s voices in mobile phone surveys of rural India

ConVERGE: Integrating Gender, Leveraging Censuses, and Building a Culture of Vital Statistics

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Analysis of Deaths Due to Gender-Based Violence: An Autopsy-based Cross-sectional Study from Mumbai

COVID-19, nutrition, and gender: An evidence-informed approach to gender-responsive policies and programs

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Gender Data to Policy: NCDs in Cameroon

Magna Carta of Women – A Data-Informed Policy to Revolutionize Women’s Empowerment in the Philippines

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