22/11/2018, Ottawa, Canada
For data to protect the rights of the most vulnerable and provide for their needs, it must count those who are often left behind. As part of it’s Solutions for Gender Equality speaker series, IRDC hosts an expert panel highlighting examples of how reliable, sex-disaggregated data can benefit women and girls by making policies and programs more relevant to them.
The speakers at “Who counts, who matters?” will present innovations and approaches that their organizations have used to address gender data gaps in developing countries and to ensure that the data benefits the very people who provide it. They will also discuss structural barriers that can render women invisible when data is generated, used, and interpreted.
Moderated by Margaret Biggs, Chairperson of the IDRC Board of Governors, panelists include:
- Shaida Badiee, Managing director, Open Data Watch, United States
- Silvana Fumega, Research and policy director, Latin American Open Data Initiative, Uruguay
- Sohana Shafique, Assistant scientist and deputy program coordinator, Health Systems and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh