A Practitioner's Guide to Gender Data

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Gender experts across the development industry have long-pointed to the collection of gender-disaggregated data as a key step in unlocking opportunities for women and girls. But gathering this data is intensely complicated — often fraught not just with technical challenges but political and societal barriers, too.

On February 21, Devex will bring together a panel of thought leaders and implementers from the Gates Foundation, UN Women, and Equal Measures 2030 to chart a path forward — and give practical guidance on collecting, analyzing and communicating about gender data.

This one-hour webinar will cover:

The barriers to collecting gender data — and how to overcome them
Practical guidance for collecting and analyzing gender data
Tips for integrating gender-disaggregated measurements across your organization's monitoring & evaluation
How to communicate your findings — and use them for advocacy purposes

We will also reserve time at the end for audience questions. You are welcome to send them ahead of the event to [email protected].

Admission is complimentary for all Devex members.

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	Yamini Atmavilas Senior Program Officer at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Yamini supports the MLE work of the foundation in India, particularly relating to Ananya, a cluster of interventions in reproductive, maternal and child health that involve working with government, the private sector, and SHGs of women from marginalized communities in Bihar, and to the third phase of Avahan, the foundation’s HIV/AIDS prevention program in 5 states with sex workers and their community organizations. In her previous work, she headed the Gender Studies as well as evaluation work at the Administrative Staff College of India, where she lead evaluations of government programs for health, adolescent girls’ empowerment, and a maternity benefits cash transfer program, assignments on measuring gender discrimination in social institutions, and developing M&E frameworks for adolescent reproductive and sexual health and rights programs and capacity building for government on gender-budgeting, monitoring and evaluation. She has worked with a range of stakeholders including policy makers across different ministries at the state and central levels, civil society organizations, and multilateral donors and private foundations. Yamini has a PhD from Emory University and over 15 years of professional experience spanning work with civil society, academia, and consulting. Her past research has focused on economic development and women’s employment, and on urban women’s reproductive health, and young single women’s rural-urban migration and marriage choices. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Poverty Reduction and Social Development Unit of the OECD Development Centre in Paris, and the German Development Institute in Bonn.
	Albert Motivans Head of Data and Insights at Equal Measures 2030 Albert Motivans is Head of Data and Insights for Equal Measures 2030, a multi-sectoral-led data and advocacy initiative that he joined in 2017. He is leading new work on developing innovative approaches to using global data for gender equality in the SDGs. Previously he was Chief of Education Indicators and Data Analysis at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics where he oversaw global data work for benchmarking education policies and monitoring international development targets. He has written widely on global education and development trends and using data and evidence for policy analysis on issues such as education equity and the disadvantaged, girls’ education, and public finance. He oversaw the annual Global Education Digest, the World Education Indicators report series and other major reports for UNESCO. Prior to joining UNESCO he conducted social and economic research on child and women’s welfare at UNICEF’s leading policy think-tank - the Innocenti Research Centre, designed survey research at InterMedia and worked on social and economic indicators at the Center for International Research at the U.S. Census Bureau. He has MAs from the University of Wisconsin and Sussex University.
	Papa Seck Chief Statistician at UN Women Papa Seck is the Chief Statistician at UN Women. Since joining UN Women in 2009, he has led statistics and data work at UN Women and has also contributed to the Research work of UN Women more broadly, including co-authoring two editions of Progress of the World’s Women as well as various other research products. He leads UN Women's efforts to monitor the SDGs and for the past year has coordinated the UN System’s efforts to ensure the inclusion of strong gender indicators in the SDGs. He is currently leading the implementation of UN Women's flagship programme initiative on gender statistics: Making Every Woman and Girl Count, to improve the production and use of gender relevant statistics and to help countries systematically monitor the Sustainable Development Goals form a gender perspective. In 2012, he also led the development of the Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) programme, in collaboration with the UN Statistics Division, to develop innovative new measures and standards to measure asset ownership and entrepreneurship from a gender perspective. Prior to joining UN Women, Papa worked for UNDP’s Human Development Report Office as a statistics specialist, contributing to three global Human Development Reports. He is the co-editor of a book on the consequences of risk and vulnerability for human development. Papa is a Senegalese national and holds a Master’s degree in economics from Hunter College.