The iCount Coalition: Accelerating Inclusive Data: Tools To Leave No One Behind
Showcasing Inclusive Data in Action
At the 2025 High-Level Political Forum, the iCount Coalition are convening to showcase Accelerating Inclusive Data: Tools to Leave No One Behind, a high-level event that brings together Member States, UN agencies, civil society, academia, and the private sector to explore innovative tools that strengthen inclusive, gender-sensitive data systems.
With 2030 fast approaching, the urgency to close persistent data gaps has never been greater. Inclusive, multidimensional data is critical not only for tracking progress across the Sustainable Development Goals, but for ensuring that all people, especially those historically marginalised, are visible in policy and decision-making.
What we know is that the tools already exist to build more inclusive, intersectional, and accountable data systems. The challenge now is to scale and sustain them, and embed them into how development is designed and delivered.
Below, we showcase several of the tools and platforms presented by iCount Coalition members – each offering a unique approach to advancing inclusive, evidence-based development. Together, they demonstrate what’s possible when data is shaped by the needs, perspectives, and rights of all people.
Explore the Tools Below
ARROW: Policy Brief - Gender Based Violence as a Reproductive Justice Issue
Policy Brief – Gender Based Violence as a Reproductive Justice Issue: Reframing Data, Indicators and Measures – A Case from the Asia-Pacific
Read HereCBM Global Disability Inclusion: Collaborative on Citizen Data
Citizen contributions to data, broadly defined as the engagement of citizens in multiple processes in the data value chain, is increasingly recognized as critical to helping overcome many data challenges of our times. In the context of the 2030 Agenda’s underlying principle to ensure that no one is left behind, citizen contributions to data helps fill critical data gaps for groups suffering from marginalization and increase the extent to which their experiences are reflected in statistics.
Explore HereData2X: Data for Democracy
In light of the rise of far-right political regimes worldwide, this global advocacy brief aims is to offer recommendations for governments (and civil society/the media) on leveraging gender data to both safeguard and strengthen democratic resilience, and make the case that ongoing, steady investments in gender data are a necessity for pushing back against anti-gender and anti-democratic discourse and misinformation
Read HereData2X: Moving Commitments to Action
Data2X and Walking the Talk explore the critical role of gender data in the development and implementation of feminist foreign policies—and demonstrate why data is a critical factor for future success.
Read HereEquality Insights Data Portal
The Equality Insights Data Portal is an open-access platform that hosts data from Equality Insights Rapid surveys and enables users to explore disaggregated findings by gender, disability, age, and location. The portal represents a major step forward in making gender-sensitive data on poverty accessible, usable and impactful. Watch our promotional video here.
Explore HereEquality Insights: Vox Pops
While in Melbourne for an Equality Insights Data Retreat, we were thrilled to sit down with gender data champions from government ministries in Tonga and Solomon Islands and pick their brains on all things gender data! We spoke on how gender data has impacted their work and how tools like Equality Insights Rapid are helping uncover critical insights in their countries. Watch below!
Harnessing the Power of Gender Data | Vaela Falefehi Ngai
Equal Measures 2030: 2024 SDG Gender Index
The 2024 SDG Gender Index is the most comprehensive global measure of gender equality. Developed by EM2030, it provides a snapshot of where the world stands on the vision of gender equality embedded in the 2030 Agenda. It is a multi- dimensional index, benchmarking gender equality across 139 countries (covering 96% of the world’s women and girls) and 56 issues across 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals
Explore HereEqual Measures 2030: Gender Advocates Survey
To have a say in how inclusive data should be addressed by Equal Measures 2030, add your voice to our Gender Advocates survey. See our Linkedin post with links to Bahasa, English, French and Spanish versions:
Have Your SayGPSDD Inclusive Data Charter
The Inclusive Data Charter mobilizes political commitments, collaboration with partners, and knowledge-sharing to advance the use of inclusive and disaggregated data. It is a peer-exchange model to enable champions to learn from each other on inclusive data.
Explore HereGender + Environment Data Alliance (GEDA)
As an alliance of more than 100 organizations, GEDA serves as a hub to foster collaborations and joint action among diverse institutions working at the intersection of gender and environment through a data lens.
Explore HereOpen Data Watch Gender Data Compass
The Gender Data Compass, developed by Open Data Watch, offers an interactive, country-level snapshot of gender data systems. It tracks 53 key gender-relevant SDG indicators across 185 countries and examines five dimensions—data availability, openness, institutional frameworks, technical capacity, and financing. This tool helps national statistical offices, policymakers, and partners identify data gaps, understand bottlenecks, and benchmark progress toward stronger gender data ecosystems.
Explore HereOpen Data Watch Gender Data Chanel
The Gender Data Channel is a specialized feature of the Clearinghouse for Financing Development Data, which is managed through a small secretariat of Open Data Watch and PARIS21. It provides a deep dive into financial flows for gender data, highlighting funded and underfunded projects, good practices, and funding gaps. It also aggregates domestic and external financing, SDG indicator coverage, and key project insights—serving as a critical reference for improving coordination, advocacy, and allocation of resources for gender data.
Explore HereWant to learn more about the iCount Coalition?
We believe that data are more than just numbers, but a powerful tool for social transformation and positive change. Inclusive development data unlocks effective and targeted solutions that have real-world impacts in the daily lives of many.
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