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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · 27d

From idea to impact 🌱➡️🌏

Equality Insights has redefined poverty measurement to reflect real lives and real inequality.

See our story in one quick scroll https://equalityinsights.org/abridged-history/
#GenderData #PovertyMeasurement #FeministData

Ruth Maetala, Dignity Pasifik, explaining the KaIkai/Food dimension, enumerator training, Individual Deprivation Measure study, Solomon Islands, 2020. A woman holds up a card that shows a blue picture of a bowl with steam coming out of it.

Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Sep 15

From groundbreaking research to global impact 🌏

See the abridged story of Equality Insights - how we’ve reimagined poverty measurement to be individual, inclusive & intersectional.

https://equalityinsights.org/abridged-history/

#GenderData #PovertyMeasurement #FeministData

A History of Transformative Poverty Measurement: The Abridged Story of Equality Insights

A History of Transformative Poverty Measurement \n\nFrom groundbreaking research to global impact, our journey has been driven by one goal: making sure everyone is visible in data.\nTake a scroll through the abridged story of Equality Insights and see how we’ve reimagined poverty measurement to be individual, inclusive, and intersectional.\n#GenderData #PovertyMeasurement #EqualityInsights #FeministData

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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Sep 10

Poverty measurement has come a long way, and Equality Insights has been part of leading that change.

Scroll the milestones that shaped our work https://equalityinsights.org/abridged-history/

#GenderData #PovertyMeasurement #FeministData

Enumerator training for Equality Insights Rapid Survey with Tonga Statistics Department, 2022. A woman sits on the phone while taking notes, while others around her watch the demonstration.

Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Sep 9

Gender data gaps limit progress on #GenderEquality.

Investing in #GenderData drives transformative change. Without inclusive and gender-sensitive data, we can't fully understand or address the disparities women, girls, and gender-diverse people face globally.

Large orange text reads ‘What gets counted counts.’ A bar graph with purple, blue and orange bars is centred.

Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Sep 3

Make Data Feminist

Too often, the lives of women and gender-diverse people are invisible in #data.

Without a feminist approach, women and gender-diverse people will continue to be overlooked and underrepresented with real-world impacts.

#DataFeminism #GenderEquality

Three wheel charts have text above that say ‘make data feminist’ in purple, blue and orange text.

Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Sep 2

Every dataset reflects choices: what’s measured, what’s ignored, who’s included, and who’s left out.

Data can reinforce the very inequalities we’re trying to reduce. This is why a #Feminist and #Inclusive approach is critical.

#DataBias #DataFeminism #InclusiveData #DataEthics

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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Aug 17

Equality Insights is IWDA’s flagship gender data program.
We envision a world where everyone is visible, counted & included in #Data.

Our survey tools measure poverty in ways that are:
✔️ Individual
✔️ Inclusive
✔️ Intersectional

🔗 https://equalityinsights.org/

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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Jul 20

Join APWLD & APRCEM's side event with IWDA on civic resistance & feminist demands on SDG implementation gaps after 10 years:

📅 Monday 21 July
🕑 13:00-15:00
📍 UNHQ Conference Room B

📝 Register: bit.ly/3TwFsjW

A pink tile advertising the side event for HLPF2025 'Demanding Accountability and Defending Civic Space: 10 Years of SDG Gaps, Challenges and Action in the Regions'. The tile has the date and time: 21 July, 13:00-1500, and Venue: UNHQ Conference Room B. As well as QR Code to register.

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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Jul 8

Be part of the conversation. Be part of the solution. Be in the room.

Join the iCount Coalition at #HLPF25 as we work to make inclusive, gender-sensitive data a reality in any post-2030 agenda.

Register 👉 https://events.humanitix.com/icount-hlpf25

🗓️ 18 JULY | ⏰ 2:00 PM EDT | 📍 730 3rd AVE

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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Jul 14

Inclusive, gender-sensitive data is essential to achieving the SDGs, but we’re not there yet.

Join the iCount Coalition this Friday at our in-person side event at #HLPF2025 to explore tools helping close persistent data gaps in the post-2030 agenda

🔗 events.humanitix.com/icount-hlpf25

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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Jul 8

Be part of the conversation. Be part of the solution. Be in the room.

Join the iCount Coalition at #HLPF25 as we work to make inclusive, gender-sensitive data a reality in any post-2030 agenda.

Register 👉 https://events.humanitix.com/icount-hlpf25

🗓️ 18 JULY | ⏰ 2:00 PM EDT | 📍 730 3rd AVE

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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Jun 27

To leave no one behind, we need data that sees everyone.

Stay tuned for updates on how Equality Insights & the iCount! Coalition are engaging with #HLPF & shaping what comes post 2030.

Read more in our blog: equalityinsights.org/hlpf2025/

#SDGs #InclusiveData #iCount #post2030

There isn’t enough data to accurately measure progress on the SDGs.
And where data does exist, it’s often incomplete, inaccurate, or fails to reflect the experiences of entire groups of people.
“Accurate, timely and disaggregated data are vital for measuring progress towards the 17 SDGs and 169 associated targets”
“Without high-quality data providing an evidence base, it will be impossible to truly understand where we are succeeding and falling short on the SDGs”
“34 targets (20%) lack sufficient trend data or additional analysis”
Source: UN Stats Sustainable Development Goals Report 2024

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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Jun 16

Only 5 years to go, and we're off track.

With #HLPF approaching, it’s time to spotlight what’s working, what’s not, and what’s next.

Stay tuned for updates on how Equality Insights and the iCount! Coalition are engaging with this year’s HLPF, and shaping what comes post-2030.

What is HLPF?
HLPF is the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, an annual UN meeting which brings together Member States along with civil society, government and other stakeholders to:
• Track progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a full review of five.
• Share what’s working and what’s not.
• Push for stronger action where progress is too slow.
• Amplify diverse voices, including those of governments, civil society, Indigenous peoples, and youth.
HLPF was created to ensure that the SDGs don’t just sit on paper, but are actually acted on.

2025 Checkpoint
This HLPF marks a critical moment to take stock of how far we still have to go, and what must happen next to get there.
With only five years until the 2030 deadline, the world is falling short on delivering the 169 targets of the 17 SDGs.

As HLPF approaches, stay tuned to see how Equality Insights will be engaging in the forum.
We’ll also keep you updated on iCount, a coalition of government, civil society, academia, networks, and associations working to drive greater inclusion and ambition in what comes after 2030.
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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Jun 11

From health to climate to the economy, a lack of inclusive, gender-sensitive data keeps inequality hidden and risks making it worse.

We can’t solve what we can’t see.

#GenderData is essential to tackling today’s biggest challenges – and we need more of it!

#InclusiveData #DataFeminism

Orange text reads ‘Data justice is gender justice’. A series of purple, blue, and orange circles and lines for a pattern.

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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · Jun 2

#DataFeminism is a powerful lens on data rooted in intersectional feminism, reimagining how we collect, analyse & use data for justice.

Developed by Catherine D’Ignazio & Lauren F. Klein, it's a must-read for equality-driven changemakers.

🔗 data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu

The seven principles of data feminisms with a corresponding shape. The principles include: examine power, challenge power, elevate emotion and embodiment, rethink binaries and hierarchies, embrace pluralism, consider context, and make labour visible.

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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · May 19

Out of 193, only 25 have a woman as head of state or government.

The numbers remind us: there's still work to do.

But they also remind us: women are leading countries, shaping futures, and breaking barriers.

🔗 equalityinsights.org/gender-parit...

#GenderEquality #GenderData

A black tile with the title ‘Women in Positions of Power’. Underneath it reads ‘As of 2025, there are 25 of 193 countries where women serve as Heads of State and/or Government.’ Underneath that there is a simple bar chart that demonstrates this. Below, are pictures of three women in power – Xiomara Castro, President of Honduras; Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa, Prime Minister of Samoa; and Harina Amarasuriya, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. On the right, the tile reads ‘At the current rate of progress, gender equality in the highest positions of power will not be reached for at least another 130 years’

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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · May 15

💬 What does global progress on women in politics really look like?

📉 Women average only 27% of seats in parliaments worldwide.

🔍 Dive into the data: equalityinsights.org/gender-parit...

#GenderParity #EqualRepresentation #WomenInPolitics #GenderEquality

A gif that reads 'What is the global status of gender parity in parliament?'. It is a black tile with a grey world map on top. On the map, the averages are listed as;
Americas: 35.8%
Middle East & Northern Africa: 16.7%
Europe: 31.8%
Sub-Saharan Africa: 27.1%
Asia: 22.1%
Oceania: 23.2%

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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · May 13

Australia is on track for gender parity in parliament — but what about the rest of the world?

📊 Check out our scroll story for the global numbers (and why they matter).

equalityinsights.org/gender-parit...

#GenderParity #GenderEquality #WomenInLeadership #GenderData

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Equality Insights @equalityinsights.bsky.social · May 1

#GenderData is a powerful tool for transformative, systemic change. It has the power to:

→ reveal inequalities
→ fuel grassroots #Advocacy
→ inform #Policy & decision-makers
→ drive accountability
→ inspire #Feminist #SocialChange
→ lead to a more #Equal future!

Learn more - equalityinsights.org

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