Pitch
Have numbers that should be a story?
If you have a dataset, a briefing or a question the public record is not answering, send it to the desk.
Data Lens
Data for a more equal Africa.
Data Lens turns numbers into insights — highlighting the realities, gaps and opportunities shaping gender equality across Africa.
Data Lens uses data, research and evidence to reveal patterns, disparities and stories that conventional reporting can miss. It is a lens on a story, not a separate brand.
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Evidence today.A more equal tomorrow.
Data.Insights.People.A more equal Africa.
What we publish
Real data. Real people. Real progress.
Every Data Lens figure sits on a sourced story. We do not publish a number without the reporting that makes it true.
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Methodology
How a number gets here.
Data Lens uses published figures to test claims and deepen reporting. It is a lens on a story, not a dashboard.
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Source
A figure is published only with the reporting that makes it true. The source is named on the number.
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Story
The link opens the Data Lens story the number belongs to. An older pin on the front page does not keep the click.
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Form
The piece is a Data story, a Report, or an Infographic. An infographic is a picture that carries the piece.
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Record
How we know lists only what the desk used: interviews, documents, datasets, field reporting, or expert review.