TReNDing: The Achievements and Lessons of a Global Research Network on Data

This report was written by former TReNDS Director, Jessica Espey, on behalf of the current TReNDS Membership and Secretariat. It has been reviewed by the members and views expressed represent those of the network membership.

For the past 10 years, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics (TReNDS) team has aimed to convene leading data actors to discuss the power and potential of data to improve equitable progress on future Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to catalyze policy change by providing new insights from a wide variety of non-governmental data sources. The latest report, TReNDing: The Achievements and Lessons of a Global Research Network on Data reflects on the network’s achievements and proposals for the way forward.