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World Humanitarian Day: Examining the Gender Data Gap in Humanitarian Crises

By Charlotte Smith | Aug 19, 2019 | Blog

Disasters such as droughts, floods and storms kill more women than men. Women form a crucial, but often overlooked contingent of first responders in humanitarian crises. This year’s World Humanitarian Day focuses on the work being done by women in today’s crises. We thought it timely to share a new blog on the need for gender disaggregated data and greater understanding of the information needs of local actors in humanitarian crises. Charlotte Smith examines why having proper information at both a global macro level and local micro level is crucial to tailoring our responses to those most in need, and fulfilling our promise to Leave No One Behind

International Women’s Day – Where’s the Development Data?

By Charlotte Smith | Mar 8, 2019 | Blog

For the last few months at Publish What You Fund, we’ve been looking into the need, availability and transparency of gender data in international development, and we thought there couldn’t be a better time to share some of our findings than International Women’s Day. What information do we need? When asking basic questions – which […]

Our Top Four Takeaways from the UN World Data Forum

By Charlotte Smith | Oct 31, 2018 | Blog

The importance of good quality, open data to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals is clear. In this blog, Charlotte reflects on her time at the UN World Data Forum, and the lessons for the role of transparency in development data.

A Preliminary Look at the State of Gender Disaggregated Aid Data

By Charlotte Smith | Sep 12, 2018 | Blog

We’ve recently begun looking into what role, if any, transparency could play in the push for more or better gender equality. Although we’re still in the early stages, along the way we’ve made some pretty interesting discoveries and wanted to share what we have learned so far. The data is needed The need for gender […]

The case for gender data from Côte d’Ivoire

By Guest | Nov 1, 2016 | Blog

This guest blog was written by Rosemonde Apata, President of MAFUBO Côte d’Ivoire — a non-profit which works to ensure Ivorian women are financially independent, safe from violence and have access to decent housing, healthcare and education. Everyday thousands of women die during or shortly after childbirth. Regrettably, too many families in my country, Côte […]

Women & IATI

By Katie Welford | Mar 8, 2013 | Blog

Today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day. Politicians, NGOs and activists are meeting in New York for the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Organisations all over the world are marking the occasion, drawing attention to important contributions to the gender equality movement. At Publish What You Fund, we believe gender equality and aid […]