I Count! Strengthening inclusive data to accelerate action on poverty (HLPF 2024 side event)

People experience poverty in different ways. The barriers facing an older woman in a rural area are not the same as those facing a younger man with a disability in an urban area. Ending poverty for all requires data that provides insight into individual lives. Current approaches to poverty measurement make it difficult to see these lived realities in data, extending the legacy of inattention to inclusive data, with implications for policy, programs, resourcing, advocacy and realising rights. 

Inclusive, individual-level data that reveal the influence of gender, age, disability, and other characteristics that shape and constrain lives can expand the insights informing action. Achieving this ambitious agenda, requires a whole of system approach that includes civil registration and vital statistics systems, national statistical offices, and government ministries alike. Alongside global data-centred initiatives, such as the High Impact Initiative on the Power of Data, the Global Digital Compact and the Summit of the Future, and with Sustainable Development Goal 1 in focus at the 2024 High-Level Political Forum, this event spotlights individuals, inclusion and intersectionality in data as central considerations to ending poverty for all. 

Stakeholders leading efforts to improve visibility of intersectional barriers in data will show why this matters to living a life without poverty and the practical implications of data gaps, including in birth, deaths, marriage, and divorce registration, for understanding the multiple and overlapping challenges facing specific groups. Other contributors will address the role of individual-level gender-sensitive measurement of poverty as a strategic investment in change, and what is required in practice if initiatives to improve inclusion in data are to support action on poverty and inequality.

SPEAKERS

• Joanne Crawford AM, Strategic Adviser, Equality Insights, International Women's Development Agency, (IWDA)
• Rebecca Bryant, Chargé d'affaires, Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations.
• Francesca Perucci, Director of Policy and Partnerships, Open Data Watch
• Jenna Slotin, Senior Director of Policy, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
• Alice Ridge, Australian Feminist Foreign Policy Coalition, IWDA
• Representatives from UNFPA and Solomon Islands Government

RUNNING ORDER

8.15am - Light breakfast, coffee and tea available

8.30am - Panel contributions

9.15am - Panel discussion  

9.35am - Audience questions and contributions

9.50am - Wrap

9.55am - Close

Please register to attend this in person event. Spaces are limited. If you have registered and can no longer attend the event, please cancel your registration so that others may attend.