Letter from the Racial Equity Index Working Group
Dear Readers,
We are excited to present to you our full and final data report from our Global Mapping Survey. Our first data report (released June 2021) which focused on the demographic and quantitative data was a starting point for us, as a collective, in understanding the state of racism in the global development sector.
As a volunteer, BIPOC-led collective the data analysis of the Global Mapping Survey was done deliberately to ensure that we asked all relevant questions of ourselves and of the data that was presented. The data you see before you, along with our analysis, has been peer-reviewed at every stage both internally by our working group members but also by our independent peer-review group.
An important note we want to make: The results of the Global Mapping Survey serve as a summary of both the quantitative and qualitative data collected. This edition of the Global Mapping Survey report contains additional analysis of the qualitative data that is meant to complement the existing quantitative analysis. The Racial Equity Index requests that individuals, groups, and organisations reviewing this data do not isolate or pull out specific data points without connecting them to the larger context of the work the Racial Equity Index is doing.
Please refer to our methodology page to understand how we constructed the survey and why we chose to embark on this journey towards building an index for racial equity for the global development sector.
The data we are presenting here is currently in English, but we hope to translate the full analysis into additional languages in the future. If you use Google Chrome then you can translate the website text into the languages available by using the extension here.
Our next step is to use the data analysed to inform the next phase in the build of our index - focus groups (see our timeline here). We will be releasing information on our focus groups in the coming months. In the meantime, we hope you find this data report as enlightening as we did. We welcome your comments, reflections, concerns, or questions - at TheRacialEquityIndex@gmail.com.
The Racial Equity Index Working Group
