UNDP
Global Risk Anticipatory Data Platform
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ABOUT
The Risk Anticipation Data Hub, a project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is a transformative open-access data platform. A ready-to-use data warehouse for over 15,000 indicators combines processed and cleaned public datasets on a multitude of risk factors. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, including a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) interface and real-time analytics, the Data Hub empowers ecosystem partners with data and insights for better crisis anticipation, prevention, and response.
Global
$500,000
21 months
GOALS
PROVIDE
Open access to a data warehouse available, featuring 15,000 structured indicators across various global crisis issues.
FOSTER
Secure, ethical, and open sharing using interoperable data standards.
EMPOWER
Ecosystem partners with data and insights for better crisis anticipation and response.
OBJECTIVES
With support from CRAF'd, UNDP elevates its internal Crisis Risk Dashboards to a critical global crisis data infrastructure and digital public good. It addresses significant gaps in the ecosystem by providing open access to cleansed and pre-processed risk data through its data warehouse. The generative AI interface and real-time analytics capability mark a significant leap forward in global, evidence-based crisis action and sustainable development efforts.
15,000
Structured indicators across various global crisis issues provided.
7,500
Users of the Data Hub per year.
$1M
Crisis aid facilitated that arrives earlier, faster, and more targeted and dignified way.
UNDP is working in most countries that are not in conflict and crisis, but one of the roles, and this is why we cooperate with ACLED, is to be able to recognize when things are beginning to go wrong and to be able to intervene, and not let a conflict become the driver of an international response.
Achim Steiner
Administrator, UNDP,
at Munich Security Conference