2023 IIAG SERIES REPORT - The power of data for governance

Data gap: health capacities For Africa, the main source for The role of the health workforce is critical in the attainment of education data for inclusion in the health goals such as Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and IIAG is UNESCO. [...] Bridging the gap create conditions for the local administration level What do you think are the main solutions to bridge the governance data to be able to have credible and statistics gap in Africa? data […] so that it responds • “Stronger administrative data systems” were mentioned in almost 65% to the challenges of of all responses and “Digital literacy and inclusion” was present in more sustain. [...] During COVID-19, funding for data globally suffered the largest drop International funding since the start of the SDG era for data and statistics • According to the PRESS 2022 report, international support for data and fell by $100 million statistics amounted to $542 million in 2020 (compared to $642 million between 2019 and in 2019 and $679 in 2018). [...] African countries should at least implement the decision of the Heads of State of the African Union to allocate 0.15% of national budgets to the development of statistics. [...] Despite these complexities, a number together to conduct research of initiatives have proven the value of building and maintaining Global that will inform the design and Data Infrastructure (GDI): Open Street Map is one of the most successful development of an online Data to examples of collaboratively maintained global data infrastructure in the policy Navigator.