How we work:
In short, the Equality Insights measure is a quantitative, individual-level, gender-sensitive measure of multidimensional poverty, underpinned by extensive research that evaluates poverty beyond ‘just money’. We measure the areas of life that people with lived experience of poverty believe truly define poverty, and which need to change to no longer be poor.
Equality Insights provides data that can be disaggregated to show how poverty varies for different groups and whether it disproportionately affects people based on gender, age, disability status or other demographic characteristics.
Read more in Wisor, Scott. et al. Individual Deprivation Measure: A gender sensitive approach to poverty measurement.
What we can offer:
Equality Insights collaborates with varied partners to improve evidence and accelerate action on poverty and inequalities:
- Equality Insights Rapid: Equality Insights Rapid has been designed to collect data remotely, in response to the COVID-19 context. The survey is conducted by phone using Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), and is a shorter variant of Equality Insights Plus, while maintaining the focus on 15 key areas of life plus assets.
- Data Mapping: Equality Insights can help map your existing surveys and data to our tools to help disaggregate and analyse by gender, age, disability, location or other demographic characteristics, and/or the intersections of these, to make visible the intersections and overlapping barriers that groups may face. Through mapping, we can provide assistance in how to enhance your survey’s multidimensionality, intersectionality, and gender sensitivity.
- Data Training: Equality Insights offers data training that connects data users and producers to raise awareness of individual-level, gender-sensitive, multidimensional poverty data, measurement methods, methodology, and insights from data disaggregation. The training also emphasises effective data communication and promotes the use of intersectional, multidimensional poverty data to inform policy and reporting priorities.
- Funding: Equality Insights can collaborate on funding proposal processes to support or strengthen your country or organisation’s efforts to develop or undertake an inclusive, individual-level measurement.
- Equality Insights Plus [under refinement]: Equality Insights Plus is a face-to-face survey that collects in-depth information about 15 key areas of life plus assets. The insights it reveals show how gender, age, disability, geographic location and other factors shape and deepen experiences of poverty and inequality. It will be available following incorporation of learning from the development and initial use of Equality Insights Rapid.
Where we have worked:
Who we have partnered with:
The Pacific
| UN Women Asia-Pacific | Regional |
| Pacific Community (SPC) | Regional |
| Statistical Institute for Asia and Pacific (UN SIAP) | Regional |
| Solomon Islands Ministry of Women, Youth, Children & Family Affairs | Solomon Islands |
| Dignity Pasifik | Solomon Islands |
| Tonga Statistics Department | Tonga |
| Femlink Pacific | Fiji |
| Fiji Bureau of Statistics | Fiji |
| Oxfam Aotearoa | New Zealand |
Asia
| World Food Programme | Regional |
| Philippine Health & Social Science Association | The Philippines |
| Pulse Asia | The Philippines |
| Universitas Islam Negeri | Indonesia |
| Hasanuddin University | Indonesia |
| Surveymeter | Indonesia |
The Americas
| Oxfam America | The United States of America |
| University of Colorado, Boulder | The United States of America |
| Northwestern University | The United States of America |
Europe
| Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, Oslo University |
Norway
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Africa
| Plataforma Mulheres Em Accao | Angola |
| Ikapadta | South Africa |
| Oxfam Great Britain | Regional – Southern Africa |
| Women’s Legal Resources Centre | Malawi |
| Kula-Applied Studies and Research – | Mozambique |
Australia
Australian Government
Australian National University
Australian Research Council
Our Impact:
Strengthening data collection processes in the Pacific
- Equality Insights partnered with the Kingdom of Tonga, through the Tonga Statistics Department, to undertake their first national phone-based survey. This work is paving the way for remote surveying to be used in the Pacific and setting standards for how this can be advanced more broadly across the region.
- In Solomon Islands, the first-ever call centre for remote survey administration was established.
Our data is influencing policy and programming
- The National Ministry for Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs, using Equality Insights data collected in 2020, has developed regional gender strategies for Central and Guadalcanal Provinces in Solomon Islands.
- Insights from the Equality Insights Rapid Solomon Islands 2022 survey was used by a coalition of women’s rights organisations in Solomon Islands to inform their advocacy priorities for women’s economic empowerment.
- Insights from the Equality Insights Rapid Tonga 2022 survey were used to report on Tonga’s response to the Beijing+30 national review and progress on gender equality.
- Insights from the Equality Insights Solomon Islands 2022 survey were used in Solomon Island’s report to the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement.
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