On Monday the 14th, one of the first CSW - UN Women events I went to was hosted by Iceland, attended by the Director of the UN Statistical Commission - Stefan Schweinfest (Germany)
, representatives from Mexico, Latin America, the Asia Development Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Ms. Lakshima Puri from UN Women chaired the event.
, representatives from Mexico, Latin America, the Asia Development Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Ms. Lakshima Puri from UN Women chaired the event.The discussion centered on the importance of data collection about different gender gaps and data collection tools. Ho Hum stuff? Not really.
Between 2015- 2030 developing nations will need assistance in several capacities - financial, institutional, human and technological. This assistance will come from varying sources - the UN, other member states and global corporations, to name a few.
Be it will not just be about setting up National Data Information Systems. It will be about setting up quality network systems in order that the data is credible. It will be about knowing the framework of the questions that we start with. And, the knowledge that as time moves forward, the questions asked and the data collected must be fluid.
Mr. Craig Stevenson from the Asia Development Bank in partnership with the UN Women and the regional office for Asia and the Pacific. Their focus will be beginning the work of collecting baseline data, data mapping and then producing statistics. Their hashtag is #Hi5forSDG5.
Ms. Sarah Hendriks from the Bill and Melina Gates Foundation identified now as a watershed moment for this work. In the past there has been a critical under investment in data collections, technical capacity gaps, political considerations. Key questions that the Foundation is asking are 1) How can we work together collecting the data and 2) How can we assure that the data poorer countries can be assisted.
But most of all, shifting to collecting intervention data as we move toward 2030.
