Closing the Gender Data Gap (Rachel Vogelstein, CFR)

In July, the United Nations will convene a high-level forum to review progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs). This review promises to highlight an early challenge to the realization of the SDG framework: gaps in data that threaten to undermine progress and accountability. Experts suggest that current statistical systems can fully track and measure indicators for only a handful of the 169 targets that comprise the 2030 agenda. Data gaps are largest in the world’s poorest countries, with estimates of up to $1 billion per year required in order to enable low-income countries to measure progress toward the goals. And in many countries, reliable data on the status of women and girls are sorely lacking

http://blogs.cfr.org/women-around-the-world/2016/05/24/closing-the-gender-data-gap/