Spotlight Initiative

Created in 2018, the EU-and UN-funded, Spotlight initiative is the world's largest targeted effort to end all forms of violence against women and girls. Functioning as an inter-agency pool fund, the Spotlight Initiative supports country and regional UN teams to track the effort of various implementing agencies, including the UN Women, UNDP, and UNICEF, who conduct different activities under common objectives.

Spotlight Initiative decided to move to ActivityInfo from a spreadsheet-based system to mitigate challenges related to upkeep, scalability, data security and data analysis so as to facilitate the work of the country and regional programmes’ reporting to the global office. The Spotlight initiative created a system to collect secondary data on program indicators by implementing countries, allow implementing countries to have access to the data collected and perform program and global level reporting.