Advancing CSOs’ Role in SDGs to Protect Marginalized Communities in Viet Nam
24 November 2020, by Linh Nguyen, Management and Sustainable Development Institute (MSD)
Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Viet Nam transition from focusing only on poverty alleviation to providing a range of services to meet the needs of marginalized communities, conduct advocacy, raise awareness and work to hold the government and other stakeholders accountable.
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.
Why Community-Driven Data should be promoted
15 October 2020, by Clemens Spiess, Robert Bosch Stiftung
Approaches using community-driven data can help to create a better knowledge base of the multi-dimensionality and root causes of inequality.
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.
Invisible and Uncounted
15 October 2020, by the Indian National Network of Sex Workers (NNSW)
To protect the rights of those in stigmatized professions, we need data and evidence to articulate our status. Such data and information can only be gathered through members of the community, because none other than us know the kind of challenges we face.
