Data to leave no one behind: Development Initiatives launches inaugural P20...
The report comes from DI’s P20 Initiative, which aims to track the progress of the poorest 20% of people globally across three bellwether indicators: income, nutrition and civil registration. In so...
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Making the case for disaggregated data: A look at Ethiopia
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development lays out an ambitious vision of a future where no one lives in extreme poverty. At the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals is a commitment to ensure...
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Leave no one behind: Ensuring inclusive SDG progress
Date Tuesday 18 July 2017 Time 13:15–14:30 (UTC) Location Conference room 11, UN Plaza, New York About To implement Agenda 2030, governments and civil society committed to work for all people and...
View ArticleLeveraging interlinkages for effective implementation of SDGs
Date Friday 14 July 2017 Time 09:00–13:00 (UTC) Location Conference room 4, UN Plaza, New York About The interlinked and indivisible nature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires an...
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Key facts on household surveys
What are household surveys? Household surveys are currently the most important data source for a range of key demographic and socioeconomic statistics for developing countries in which vital...
View ArticleThe care of children in data: Evidence, gaps and opportunities for change in...
The UN global framework on sustainable development can to help change this situation. Indeed, the call for timely investment in the statistical capacity of countries to produce and use reliable...
View ArticleTwo years in – are people’s lives improving?
The High Level Political Forum (HLPF), which took place over recent days in New York, was an opportunity to review progress in addressing the ambitious challenges of Agenda 2030. I was there to beat...
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Making the case for disaggregated data: A look at Nigeria
The P20 Initiative aims to track the progress of the poorest 20% of the world’s population from poverty to security and opportunity. It is about ensuring that the Sustainable Development Goals and the...
View ArticleImproving data on ageing to leave no one behind
At the end of August, I participated in a meeting in Winchester, UK, with colleagues from national statistical offices, UN agencies, NGOs and academia, to discuss the need for better disaggregation by...
View ArticleHow is the World Bank changing its annual poverty updates?
The World Bank remains uniquely positioned to monitor global poverty. Countries share data with the World Bank that they don’t share with anyone else. The World Bank has invested a significant amount...
View ArticleCoding the P20 – How we developed and coded the P20 Initiative
This background paper discusses the use of data from 99 different household surveys to create statistics for the P20 Initiative. It highlights some of the difficulties encountered, including a lack of...
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The needs of Kenyans by county: exploring the latest poverty data
The devolution of powers from Kenya’s central government to its 47 counties has been a policy priority in the country since 2013 when the counties were established. One of the central elements behind...
View ArticleP20 and ‘Leave No One Behind’ commitments at country-level: High-Level...
Date: 17 July 2018 Time: 18:30–20:30 (GMT-4) Location: The Japan Society, 333 E 47th St, New York, NY 10017 About: The Governments of Switzerland and Benin and Development Initiatives are hosting a...
View ArticleHow the P20 are doing in your country
Explore our interactive pdf to see profiles on how the P20 are doing in every country across the world based on available data. The P20 Initiative produces data to show whether the poorest 20% (the...
View ArticleHow the P20 are doing in Benin
In 2017, Benin published its first Voluntary National Review of progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The importance of the goal to ‘leave no one behind’ was interlaced through that...
View ArticleThe P20 and progress on the commitment to leave no one behind at country level
Tomorrow, as part of the High-Level Political Forum, DI will co-host a side-event on the commitment to ‘Leave No One Behind’ with the governments of Switzerland and Benin. This session will be an...
View ArticleDI signs the Global Disability Summit’s Charter for Change
As a signatory to the Charter for Change, DI commits to ten specific goals – including the collection and use of better data to characterise the challenges faced by people with disabilities, the...
View ArticleData to leave no one behind: Development cooperation and the P20
By Michael Gerber, Swiss Special Envoy for Global Sustainable Development The shift from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was a watershed moment. It...
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What does new World Bank data tell us about progress on poverty?
There has been some progress on aggregate and in some countries and regions. However, overall there are many people and places that are making very slow progress or no progress at all, with poverty...
View ArticleWho is being left behind? A new perspective on multidimensional poverty
Our understanding of poverty has evolved over the years. We have tightened our grasp on its complexity and the numerous interconnected factors – big and small – that drive it. Nowhere has this been...
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