United Nations Foundation

Data2X, an alliance housed at the U.N. Foundation, seeks to improve the quality, availability, and use of gender data in order to make a practical difference in the lives of women and girls worldwide. Data2X works with partners to improve the production and use of gender data through convening, research, advocacy, and communications. As an anchor grantee in the data substrategy of our women’s economic empowerment work, Data2X has a track record of raising awareness about the importance of gender data, identifying gender data gaps, and building partnerships to develop new methods. During this grant period, Data2X aims to enable the availability, usability, demand for, funding of, and use of gender data by governments, multilaterals, and private sector actors. Its goals include laying the groundwork for larger-scale change in key gender data production areas such as women’s economic participation, financial inclusion, and big data; deepening the field’s understanding of the current state of gender data and actions that need to be taken to drive data use; mobilizing new actors or channels for funding; and improving its own capacity to tell the gender data story and mobilize new investments in gender data. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)HEALTH