Our Mission
To improve the quality, availability, and use of gender data to make a practical difference in the lives of women and girls worldwide.
Our Vision
A future where gender data guides smart policymaking for greater gender equality.
How We Work
Collaboration is Data2X’s guiding principle and signature way of working. This reflects our core strength: our convening power based on the trust we have earned from government, private sector, civil society, and academic partners.
Our Impact
Data2X evolved from a small start-up to a recognized global civil society organization – now joining forces with Open Data Watch – with the networks and expertise to drive progress on gender data. Data2X’s work has concretely defined the gender data problem, improved data availability in key domains, and made gender data a priority within the development community.
Our Strategic Priorities
Data2X works towards three strategic outcomes:
- Improving gender data investment: Data2X advocates for the investments required to fill gender data gaps. This includes tracking patterns of gender data investment, guiding and supporting public sector partners to evaluate and articulate their gender data investment needs, and assisting with donor coordination and collaboration.
- Improving access to gender data and encouraging its use: , Data2X has helped our partners generate and make high-quality gender data openly available.
- Catalyzing demand for gender data: While gender data is now recognized as a global development priority, there is still relatively low demand by policymakers for gender data. Data2X catalyzes demand and promotes mutual accountability for gender data by sharing best practices and lessons learned in advocacy and policy implementation, by strengthening the visibility and capacity of gender data champions and tracking gender data commitments.
Our Next Chapter
As of May 2026, Data2X has joined Open Data Watch (ODW), bringing together complementary expertise and shared commitments to strengthening gender data systems around the world. Building on Data2X’s decade of impact, the transition will help expand and sustain efforts to improve the production, use, and visibility of gender data across the broader data ecosystem.