5 Ways Businesses Can #RebuildBetter
11 November 2020, by Zahid Torres-Rahman, Business Fights Poverty
Action toolkits and further ways businesses can help with the global effort to rebuild better following COVID-19.
Data Experts Discuss How to Harness Non-Official Sources
19 November 2020, by IISD and the Leave No One Behind Partnership
Findings from a panel discussion held during the Virtual UN World Data Forum 2020 on ways to harness statistics produced by non-official sources.
How Communities Can Fill Data Gaps on People with Disabilities
09 November 2020, by Salome Wanjiku Kimata, Christian Blind Mission (CBM)
How community members can become voices for change by collecting data on their needs.
Women’s voices missing from COVID-19 news coverage
28 October 2020, by IISD and the Leave No One Behind Partnership
In global south and global north a substantial bias favours men’s perspectives in news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a study commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Virtual Exhibition at World Data Forum Highlights Community-Driven Data for LNOB
20 October 2020, IISD and the Leave No One Behind Partnership
A virtual exhibition created by the LNOB Partnership and launched at the UN World Data Forum highlights the potential of community-driven data for empowering marginalised groups. The site voicescount.org includes voices from each of the five action countries, Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Nepal and Viet Nam.
Six key steps for using personal and community data safely
18 November 2020, by Sam Wozniak, Development Initiatives
For those involved in community-driven data collection data security needs to be a priority concern. If we want to protect the groups and individuals we are collecting information on, we need to take care in the collection, storage, analysis, sharing and publication of data relating to them. This blog provides guidance to support such efforts.
Data-driven inclusion of people with disabilities
20 October 2020, by Elizabeth Lockwood, Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities for Sustainable Development / CBM
In response to the lack of information on how COVID-19 is affecting persons with disabilities, organisations have carried out their own surveys, with important implications for policymakers.
Using the Power of Community Data to Tackle Gender Violence
13 October 2020, by Claudia Wells, Development Initiatives
A shocking increase in violence against women and girls has been reported in many countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Community data can play a vital role to fill the gaps and ensure that data-informed policies reflect the lived experiences of the most marginalised women and girls.
LNOB amid COVID-19: Emerging from Survival Mode
08 October 2020, by Stefan Jungcurt, IISD
Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, decision makers face the dual challenges of containing new outbreaks while addressing the enduring consequences of the economic lockdowns imposed to contain the first wave.
LNOB after COVID: Findings from the Front Lines
05 October 2020, by IISD and the Leave No One Behind Partnership
The LNOB partnership and IISD are launching a series of articles, assessing COVID-19’s long-term impacts and efforts to make voices heard and count. The next months will be critical to helping those hardest hit.
