Incorporating gender in migration data is a key contribution towards the global efforts to end gender inequality through gender-responsive migration governance. An important aspect of this goal is linking data to policy, so that gender-responsive data are explicitly used to inform migration policies and their implementation, monitoring and evaluation (IOM, 2019b). The purpose of applying a gender-responsive approach is to recognize and move beyond assumptions of gender-neutrality in international public policy, uncover the reality of people’s everyday lives, and find ways to address the needs of all migrants.