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Gender Data Outlook 2024

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Over the past five years, PARIS21 and UN Women have collaborated to respond to the need for more and better gender data. This collaboration has involved specific efforts to integrate gender into national statistical planning and programming. To address the critical question of how diverse investments in gender data translate into meaningful change for women and girls, PARIS21 and UN Women are introducing the Gender Data Outlook (GDO), that will assess countries' levels of statistical maturity using the new global framework and corresponding overall measure for gender data capacity.

Through the Gender Data Outlook, PARIS21 and UN Women introduce a novel approach to understanding gender data capacity in 83 countries. By combining insights from a new capacity index with qualitative analysis, this report documents country capacity to foster an enabling environment for gender data, data production, its accessibility, and use. This holistic overview of gender data capacity sheds more light on where capacity and investment gaps around gender data lie and where more efforts are needed to systematically improve gender data systems in a way that benefits all and targets the most vulnerable populations.

 

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