In a recent article on Foreign Policy's website, Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, digs into the issue of how the lives of women and girls around the world can be improved through the collection of data.
She points to the UN panel's recommendation for the new set of MDGs that will be begin in 2015, which says that data on every goal and target should be broken out by a variety of indicators, including gender. This will allow governments and development agencies to find out what groups are being left out and left behind, and to effectively redesign their programs to include these groups. This will have an enormous impact on the lives of women and girls in developing countries, and through them the lives of many others. However, the ability to collect and disaggregate such data is not yet a reality in many countries; investments in a "data revolution" will be necessary.To read more about the post-2015 development agenda, click here.
To read the full text of the Foreign Policy article, click here.
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