Flavia Sacco Capurro

A fake data dashbaord on a computer screen illustrates that despite collecting more data than ever before, governments in LAC underuse data for analytics. For example, data on prices of procured goods lay dormant on a data server, rather than being actively analyzed to estimate and set prices in tenders. Enabling government analytics, the use of data to inform policymaking and improve the functioning of government, requires an institutional approach.

Los Datos propician una mejor gobernanza, al garantizar que los tomadores de decisión y la ciudadanía tengan acceso a información precisa y en tiempo real para la formulación e implementación de políticas (Rogger y Schuster 2023). Reconociendo el potencial de los datos, los Gobiernos de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) han invertido en sistemas de información de gestión que recopilan datos sobre las funciones centrales del gobierno (gráfico 1). Figura 1.

Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has undone women's progress from numerous dimensions but mainly in the economic sphere. The greatest impacts were observed in sectors where women are overrepresented, leading to unemployment and unpaid work. This reality has particularly affected Paraguay, where due to the current crisis, we see that gender gaps in the labor market, already existing before the pandemic, have been exacerbated.