WASHINGTON, June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Data2X, an
alliance hosted by the UN Foundation, today announced a press
fellowship focused on gender data to be held in October 2018 alongside the second UN World Data
Forum in Dubai. As part of the
fellowship, journalists will receive a stipend to cover travel
costs and will have access to exclusive briefings.
The UN World Data Forum will gather 1500 leaders from
government, business, civil society, and academia in Dubai from October 22
to 24 to examine the significant role of data in achieving
sustainable development. Critical to this conversation is the need
for good gender data – complete, unbiased data about the lives of
women and girls – to bring about positive change for all people,
especially those that are most vulnerable. Gender data can include
labor data that considers both paid and unpaid work, data about
access to financial services, and data on birth, death, and
marriage registration. Women are disproportionately impacted by
lack of data in each of these areas, and have the potential to
benefit tremendously if gender data is collected and used.
"Good policy and programmatic decisions must be based on good
data, but most data about women and girls is incomplete or missing
altogether," said Emily Courey
Pryor, Executive Director of Data2X. "We will not be able to
achieve gender equality and improve development outcomes for all
without complete, unbiased data about lived realities. We hope this
fellowship will provide tools and access to encourage reporting on
the role of gender data in achieving the Sustainable Development
Goals."
A key component of the programme of the UN World Data, which is
being organized by the United Nations and hosted by the government
of the United Arab Emirates, will
address strengthening the use of data in journalism and improving
data communication. This press fellowship will enable selected
journalists to cover gender data and data for sustainable
development issues through attending the UN World Data Forum in
Dubai and participating in an
accompanying set of curated private briefings.
This fellowship is intended for any journalist who covers gender
equality, data, or sustainable development issues and would find
this opportunity beneficial to their reporting. The application
deadline is July 11, 2018. Apply
here. For more information, please contact Nina Rabinovitch Blecker at
nblecker@data2x.org.
More information about the UN World Data Forum can be found
here: https://undataforum.org/.
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About the UN World Data Forum
The United Nations World Data Forum on Sustainable Development Data
was created following a core recommendation in the UN Secretary
General's report, "A World That Counts." The High-level Group for
Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development leads the organization
of the UN World Data Forum under the guidance of the United Nations
Statistical Commission and in close consultation with Member States
and international partners. The Statistics Division of the United
Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs supports the
organization of the Forum in its role as Secretariat. The first UN
World Data Forum took place in Cape Town,
South Africa from January 15 to 18,
2017. The second UN World Data Forum will be hosted by the
Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority of the
United Arab Emirates from
October 22 to 24, 2018. To learn more
about the UN World Data Forum, visit: http://undataforum.org.
About Data2X
Data2X, housed at the United Nations Foundation, is a collaborative
technical and advocacy alliance dedicated to improving the quality,
availability, and use of gender data to make a practical difference
in the lives of women and girls worldwide. Motivated by the belief
that "there is no gender equality without data equality," Data2X
works with United Nations agencies, governments, civil society,
academics, and the private sector to close gender data gaps,
promote expanded and unbiased gender data collection, and use
gender data to improve policies, strategies, and decision-making in
support of gender equality. To learn more about Data2X, visit:
http://data2x.org.
SOURCE United Nations Foundation, Inc.