Date: February 18, 2015  Time 12:00-1:30PM EST  Location: 1818 H Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20433

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Lack of data on women and girls has hindered efforts to advance gender equality and design evidence-based policies that can lift the multiple constraints holding them back--and shed light on many aspects of their work, health, economic status, financial inclusion, ownership of and control of assets, access to services, voice, and agency. In many countries, particularly in the developing world, these data simply do not exist. And as the world moves toward a new set of development targets that will succeed the anti-poverty MDGs, setting ambitious new goals regarding gender data and evidence acquires new urgency.

Created by former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Data2X is an exciting initiative that aims to build new partnerships to improve data collection and demonstrate how better data on the status of women and girls can guide policy, leverage investments, and inform global development priorities. In this session, UN Foundation Senior Fellow Marya Buvinic will present highlights of Data2X’s work and report on its progress. Talip Kilic will discuss the partnership between the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) and the United Nations Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) project to define standards and methods for data collection on individual ownership of and rights to assets. Mariana Dahan will present WBG work to raise awareness of the importance of good identification data in development (ID4D) and discuss implications of the ID4D agenda for women and girls.

Chair

Haishan Fu, Director, Development Data Group, World Bank  

Speakers

Marya Buvinic, United Nations Foundation Senior Fellow
Data2X and the Gender Data Revolution

Talip Kilic, Senior Economist, Living Standards Measurement Study team, Development Research Group, World Bank
Measuring women and men’s ownership of assets: the LSMS-EDGE Collaboration

Mariana Dahan, Coordinator, Identification for Development (ID4D) Working Group, World Bank
The Identification for Development (ID4D) agenda and its implications for women and girls