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Women-supporting trade policies need better data, experts say
UNCTAD - November 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Women’s economic empowerment is a crucial objective of the international development agenda but designing informed policies means developing better information.
33% of married women in India have experienced domestic violence; wife-beating considered ‘normal’: Study
DNA India - November 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Almost one-third of all married women in India have experienced spousal violence with wife-beating accepted by many women, says a study which calls gender-based violence as one of the most serious concerns in the country.
One-third of Married Women in India Experience Violence
The Daily News - November 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Almost one-third of all married women in India have experienced spousal violence with wife-beating accepted by many women, says a study which calls gender-based violence as one of the most serious concerns in the country.
One-third of married women in India experience spousal violence: Study
The Times of India - November 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
NEW DELHI: Almost one-third of all married women in India have experienced spousal violence with wife-beating accepted by many women, says a study which calls gender-based violence one of the most serious concerns in the country.
Photo: Community.data.gov.inSpousal violence in India: Stats, reasons, and policies against domestic violence
India Today - November 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
A mid the ‘Me Too’ controversy, government and people are getting more sensitive towards women issues.
Photo: Ruta Pacífica Nacional de las MujeresEl 51% de los compromisos con enfoque de género del Acuerdo de Paz no han iniciado
El Espectador - November 2018 | (In Spanish) Featuring Equal Measures 2030
De los 130 compromisos con enfoque de género definido en el acuerdo de paz con las Farc, solo cinco se han implementado completamente. Un informe presentado por el Instituto Kroc sostiene que los principales rezagos están en el punto sobre Reforma Rural Integral, sustitución de cultivos de uso ilícito, garantías de seguridad y reincorporación de mujeres excombatientes
Photo: Agencia AnadoluColombia es líder en equidad de género entre seis países
El Espectador - October 2018 | (In Spanish) Featuring Equal Measures 2030
El país suramericano hizo parte junto con El Salvador, India, Indonesia, Kenia y Senegal de una medición sobre la equidad de género vinculada con objetivos de la agenda 2030 de la ONU.
- Photo: Ruta Pacífica Nacional de las Mujeres
Colombia, referente mundial para la construcción del Índice Global de Género ODS
Extra - October 2018 | (In Spanish) Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Colombia hace parte de los seis países seleccionados por la alianza internacional Equal Measures 2030 para participar en la construcción del Índice Global de Género ODS que, a través de 43 indicadores de 12 ODS, mide la situación de las mujeres en los territorios y evidencia cuáles son los desafíos para alcanzar el desarrollo sostenible: en el país están estrechamente vinculados a la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz.
Photo: HTHealth and nutrition rights elude Indian women, says report
Live Mint - October 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
According to the report, in SDG 2 on nutrition, India has the highest prevalence of anaemia among women with anaemia rates for women nearly double that of Colombia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya in 2016.
India witnessing gender disparities against backdrop of rapid economic growth: Gender index
Money Control - October 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
India still witnesses gender disparities against the backdrop of rapid economic growth even as the rate of violence against women remains high, says a new global gender index.
Equal Measures 2030 crea una herramienta para analizar el índice de Género de los ODS
Mujer Emprendedora - September 2018 | (In Spanish) Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Recoge datos de cinco países: El Salvador, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenia y Senegal.
Photo: Reuters/Desmond BoylanAhead of the 2030 deadline, there are large gaps in the data on gender equality
World Economic Forum - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
World leaders who have pledged to end gender inequality by 2030 will miss the ambitious target if they do not accelerate efforts to plug “profound” data gaps, experts said ahead of launching a new gender index on Wednesday.
Equal Measures 2030Equal Measures 2030: Measuring gender progress across the SDGs
Plan International - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Albert Motivans leads Data and Insights for Equal Measures 2030 (EM2030) and is based in the Plan International USA’s (Plan) Washington, DC office. EM2030 is a civil society and private sector partnership that connects data and evidence with advocacy and action on gender equality.
Big data key to hit gender equality target
Shine - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
World leaders who have pledged to end gender inequality by 2030 will miss the ambitious target if they do not accelerate efforts to plug “profound” data gaps, experts said ahead of launching a new gender index yesterday.
New SDG Gender Index Aims To Measure Progress Toward Gender Equality, Calls For More Data Collection
Kaiser Family Foundation - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
A new index shows how to measure gender equality in the SDGs.
The Economic TimesIndia witnessing gender disparities against backdrop of rapid economic growth: Gender index
The Economic Times, India - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
New Delhi, Oct 1 () India still witnesses gender disparities against the backdrop of rapid economic growth even as the rate of violence against women remains high, says a new global gender index.
India a ‘mixed picture’ for gender equality progress: Report
Daiji World - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS): While India is registering a strong commitment towards gender budgeting, the country has a low percentage of women in its Parliament, presenting a ‘mixed picture’ for gender equality progress, according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Gender Index report.
Global Leaders Experience Innovative Technologies Aimed at Solving Key Sustainable Development Issues
Business Insider - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Gallery Walk highlights new generation of changemakers showcasing how data and technology are empowering the developing world at event hosted by Dun & Bradstreet and Tableau Foundation.
In the Know: Women in the news 9/16 – 9/20
NBC News - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
A weekly roundup of women in the news.
Gender equality index highlights big data gaps ahead of 2030 deadline
The Star - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
World leaders who have pledged to end gender inequality by 2030 will miss the ambitious target if they do not accelerate efforts to plug “profound” data gaps, experts said ahead of launching a new gender index on Wednesday.
Photo: KAPAL PerempuanData Berbasis Gender Penting untuk Capai SDG
VOA - September 2018 | (In Indonesian) Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Ketika PBB merilis Human Development Index (Indeks Pembangunan Manusia) pekan lalu, ada beberapa data yang memicu perdebatan hangat di kalangan akademisi, aktivis dan pengambil kebijakan. Salah satunya adalah data angka kematian ibu di Indonesia.
India a ‘Mixed Picture’ in Gender Equality Progress: Report
News Click - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Among six countries, India has the lowest percentage (12%) of women in its Parliament, compared with 42% in Senegal.
Photo: Plan InternationalNace una herramienta que analiza el avance en igualdad de género en cada país
Compromiso Empresarial - September 2018 | (In Spanish) Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Equal Measures 2030, alianza global entre la sociedad civil y el sector privado que tiene como objetivo utilizar datos y evidencias científicas para conseguir cambios políticos, ha creado un Índice de Género de los ODS para analizar con cifras reales el avance hacia la igualdad de las mujeres en todo el mundo.
Photo: ThinkstockGender equality needs much more commitment and funds
DNA - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
A new tool to measure gender equality across the issues covered in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – the SDG Gender Index – was released at the UN General Assembly this week (September 19, 2018).
Photo: Carolyn Kaster / APIversen and Holder: Global promise of gender equality is still a long way off
Ottawa Citizen - September 2018 | Alison Holder, Director of Equal Measures 2030 & Katja Iversen, President/CEO of Women Deliver
Twenty-six out of 195. That is the number of countries with women foreign ministers. This week, as female foreign ministers from around the world convene in Montreal for the first meeting of its kind, 87 per cent of countries didn’t have the option to send a representative.
Photo: Getty Images / AFP / J. KriswantoBagaimana Skor Indonesia di Indeks Kesetaraan Gender 2018?
Tempo - September 2018 | (In Indonesian) Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Pemimpin dunia akan kehilangan momentum dan gagal menanggulangi ketimpangan gender pada 2030 jika tidak mempercepat langkah menutup “kekosongan data” tentang kaum perempuan. Peringatan tersebut dilayangkan organisasi Equal Measures 2030 ketika memublikasikan Indeks Kesetaraan Gender pada Rabu (19/9)
India paints a mixed picture on gender equality: UN report
DNA India - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
A sustainable development goal gender index to track progress for girls and women and to measure gender equality across the issues covered in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was launched earlier this week in New York.
Photo: ICRCAfrica: Gender Equality Index Highlights Big Data Gaps Ahead of 2030 Deadline
All Africa - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
World leaders who have pledged to end gender inequality by 2030 will miss the ambitious target if they do not accelerate efforts to plug “profound” data gaps, experts said ahead of launching a new gender index on Wednesday.
Photo: PixabayPerlindungan Negara Terhadap Perempuan dari KDRT Dinilai Lemah
Jawa Pos - September 2018 | (In Indonesian) Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Meski ditangani secara serius, lemahnya perlindungan negara terhadap perempuan dari pelecehan seksual dan kekerasan dalam rumah tangga turut memperlebar kesenjangan gender di Indonesia.
Photo: 123RFGender-equality index highlights big data gaps ahead of 2030 deadline
Business Day - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Data has the power to hold governments to account, highlight hidden issues and change laws, policies and budget decisions.
India a ‘mixed picture’ for gender equality progress: Report
New Indian Express - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
The 2018 pilot Index report took into account six countries – India, Indonesia, Kenya, Senegal, Colombia and El Salvador — which represent 22 per cent of the world’s female population.
SDGs Gender Equality Tool Hopes to Ignite Global Change
Probono Australia - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
It is hoped a new tool measuring gender equality against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will equip advocates with the evidence to influence policymakers and ignite global change.
Gender Data Is Essential to Drive SDG Advocacy for Women and Girls
News Deeply - September 2018 | Emily Courey Pryor, Executive Director of Data2X, Equal Measures 2030 partner
A new index brings us one step closer to measuring progress toward gender equality under the U.N.Sustainable Development Goals, but ultimate success is hampered by a persistent problem: gaps in the relevant data.
Photo: European Union / CC BY-NC-NDA new index shows how to measure gender equality in the SDGs
Devex - September 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
In today’s development thinking, gender plays an key role — including in achieving the outcomes of the Sustainable Development Goals. But in progressing the SDG gender agenda, how do you create a solid set of data and monitor progress?
Photograph by Kainaz Amaria/The New York Times/Redux.The Girl-Shaped Hole In Global Health Data
Bright Magazine - July 2018 | Featuring Equal Measures 2030
Since 2013, the Indian government has spent upwards of $54 million on its Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation program for 100 million adolescents, recognizing that over half of Indian girls aged 10 to 19 are anemic, along with 30 percent of boys.
But as with many health programs, while the intentions may be noble, the data and implementation are lacking. This is in part due to India’s sheer size; the state of Uttar Pradesh alone has a population of over 200 million, spread out over nearly 100,000 square miles. If it were a country, it would be the world’s fifth most populous, as well as the poorest of the world’s ten most populous countries.
Ensuring Data Drives Advocacy & Action
Women Deliver - June 2018 | Featuring Alison Holder, Director of Equal Measures 2030
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) contain transformational promises on gender equality, working to positively change the lives of girls and women worldwide.
Though we have ambitious targets set within the SDGs, they won’t be worth the paper they were painstakingly drafted on if governments don’t put in place the real laws and policies needed and make the tough budget choices and investments critical to delivering the goals for women and girls.
How can we ensure that governments are incentivised to make the necessary investments – such as the 12 critical investments in women and girls promoted by the Deliver for Good campaign – to bring about gender equality?
Glints of hope
Ipsos Mori, April 2018 | Alison Holder, Director, Equal Measures 2030
If the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are achieved by 2030, the lives of girls and women will be forever changed. The goals contain transformative promises on gender equality: from equal access to quality education to increased participation in the labour force, to ending the scourge of gender-based violence.
Webinar: 5 do’s and don’ts to improve your gender data use
Devex - February 2018 | Featuring Albert Motivans, Head of Data & Insights, Equal Measures 2030
BANGKOK — Collecting, analyzing, and communicating gender-disaggregated data are crucial steps in unlocking opportunities for women and girls, and in tracking progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
Devex spoke with Seck, along with gender data experts from Equal Measures 2030 and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to break down several best practices in collecting, analyzing, and communicating gender data.
Photo: Charly Two/AFP via Getty ImagesNews Deeply: Embrace Data and Big Thinking to Meet Gender SDGs
News Deeply - January 2018 | Featuring Alison Holder, Director of Equal Measures 2030.
NEW YORK – One of the most ambitious of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals – intended to be achieved by 2030 – is that of full gender equality. At current rates of progress, research shows that this is centuries, rather than years, off.
But the announcement of the targets in 2015 spurred the formation of a number of organizations dedicated to hastening that progress. Equal Measures 2030 is an international partnership working to compile data on global gender gaps, and to get that data into the hands of the women’s rights advocates who are campaigning to close them.
Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty ImagesDeeply Talks: Women’s Advancement in 2018, Dispatch from Davos
News Deeply - January 2018 | Featuring Alison Holder, Director, Equal Measures 2030
In our first Deeply Talks call of 2018, we discussed the launch of our newest platform, Women’s Advancement Deeply, which will focus on women’s economic advancement in the developing world.
Photo: Álvaro MinguitoLos políticos dicen trabajar por la igualdad, pero desconocen la situación de las niñas
El Salto - November 2017 | Featuring Jessica Lomelin, Head of Media and Communications, Equal Measures 2030
El informe Responsables políticos e igualdad de género: qué saben y por qué lo saben de EqualMeasures 2030 es concluyente: políticos y legisladores carecen de conocimientos específicos sobre la situación de las niñas.
Chart of the Day: What Policy Makers Don’t Know About the Data They Need to Achieve Gender Equality By 2030
UN Dispatch - October 2017 | Featuring EM2030's Policymaker Report
A new survey shows big gaps in what policy makers in key countries know about achieving gender equality by 2030–a key target of the Sustainable Development Goals.
38% Policymakers In India Know Little or Nothing About SDGs: Survey
The India Saga - September 2017 | Featuring Albert Motivans, Head of Data & Insights, Equal Measures 2030
A survey of policymakers across five countries – Colombia, Kenya, India, Indonesia and Senegal—on gender equality in their respective countries has show how little they actually know.
World Leaders Don’t Understand Women – and that’s hurting gender equality, study finds
Newsweek - September 2017 | Featuring EM2030's Policymaker Report
A new study released late Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly questions whether policymakers in five countries are equipped with the basic information they need to advance gender equality. Equal Measures 2030, a global partnership of nine organizations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, conducted a survey of 109 policymakers in Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal.
Photo: Population Council“The right data at the right time”: How to effectively communicate research to policy makers
The World Bank Blog - September 2017 | Featuring Albert Motivans, Head of Data & Insights, Equal Measures 2030
Researchers in development often hope that their research can ultimately influence policy. But getting from research results to policymaker persuasion is an ongoing struggle. Yesterday I heard insights on this point from Dasmine Kennedy of Jamaica’s Ministry of Education as well as Albert Motivans from Equal Measures 2030. (I also gave my two cents.)
$20 Million from Gates Foundation to Address Gender Inequality Globally
Philanthropy Women - September 2017 | Featuring EM2030's Policymaker Report
Timing couldn’t be better. Today, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced it will give $20 million over the next three years to empower women’s organizations globally.
The news comes on the same day that Equal Measures 2030 released a Gender Report along with the Gates Foundation and ONE Campaign Coalition at the United Nations General Assembly, taking place this week in New York.
Gender Equality Through Data Equality
Champions for Social Good Podcast - September 2017 | Featuring Alison Holder, Director of Equal Measures 2030
In this episode of the Champions for Social Good Podcast, Jamie Serino speaks with Alison Holder (@alieholder), Director of Equal Measures 2030 (@equal2030), a civil society and private sector-led initiative working to harness the power of data and evidence to create change for gender equality.
Many leaders clueless on issues facing girls, women, survey shows
Reuters - September 2017 | Featuring EM2030's Policymaker Report
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Policymakers in developing nations may not know enough facts and figures about problems facing women and girls to help reach gender equality, research showed on Wednesday.
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Gates, Plan-funded global gender data partnership takes shape
Devex - September 2017 | Featuring EM2030's Policymaker Report
BANGKOK — In May 2016, several well-known nongovernmental organizations, foundations, businesses, and advocacy groups announced a partnership in the name of improving gender data.
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Policymakers ‘flying blind’ on gender issues, survey finds
Devex - September 2017 | Featuring EM2030's Policymaker Report
WASHINGTON — Many policymakers are ill-informed about the most pressing issues affecting gender equality in their countries, including the number of women in the labor force and how many are dying in childbirth, according to a new report published by a coalition of NGOs and private sector companies working to fill the gender data gap.
