Get Involved

📅14 November 2024 🕒 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM |📍Medellin, Colombia 🇨🇴

Context
Some of the key points for the Leave No One Behind agenda are related to Inclusive Data, bringing to the table some key elements to really make a step forward: Prioritization of data, disaggregation and intersectionality. Those 3 elements could not be useful to a large extent without the complementarity of Citizen Generated Data, taking elements that may be used by civil society groups, but never reach the official Data reports, having the opportunity to fill this gap to generate information for the structuring of public policies and to be used by decision makers.
Citizen Generated Data has the capacity to be used within the official information systems of governments, and in some countries, there are advanced processes of experiences in this field, bringing good practices that can be taken as a reference for other countries, such as, for example, the coordination between civil society organizations and national statistics institutes, taking the quality information already collected and verified by a CSO. Such exercises are being carried out in countries such as Bangladesh, Malawi, and Vietnam. More recently, the Copenhagen Framework was developed to provide a structure for envisioning and reaching consensus on the various roles citizens can undertake in data-related activities, facilitating the development of strategic actions for both the citizen data and statistical communities as they progress.
This is where efforts to generate cooperation initiatives that facilitate exchanges of experiences and good practices between countries to enhance the opportunities of Citizen Generated Data in the challenges of Inclusive Data become important. This can be achieved with the support of partners such as the Colombian Presidential Agency for International Cooperation APC Colombia and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), as donors and promoters of these Cooperation initiatives and actors such as the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) and the International Civil Society Centre (ICSC) that provide technical support and generate a match between the different experiences among regions. The aim is to generate a conversation between National Statistical Offices, Civil Society Organizations and cooperation agencies, to share these good practices in inclusive data and citizen-generated data that can even be leveraged to be shared with other countries through cooperation initiatives under modalities such as South-South.

Session information
The session showcased insights from the co-creation processes in the three countries, highlighting common challenges and limitations, best case approaches and overall learnings, elevating the importance of inclusive data processes across data communities for policy decisions. The audience benefitted from first-hand insights and get inspirations for how such a process could be implemented in their countries. This also demonstrates the value of peer learning, in particular south to south learning across countries as a mechanism to strengthen inclusive data.