In 2024, 85% of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in Africa lacked tools to deliver climate services, and 52% had no digital presence at all. Life-saving climate information was failing to reach populations most at risk. ClimWeb is a free, open-source platform purpose-built for National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, giving institutions a single integrated system to produce, publish, and communicate authoritative climate information. Designed for low-resource environments, it is deployable by any institution regardless of technical capacity.

Two years after launch, 76% of participating countries in Africa have state-of-the-art climate service systems built with ClimWeb, up from 15% in 2024. Early warnings published to the public have increased by 3,000%, reaching millions of people across the continent in standardized CAP format, automatically discoverable by Google Public Alerts. Over 250 weather stations have initiated international data exchange, increasing African observational data feeding into global forecast models. ClimWeb is now expanding beyond Africa, with early adopters in Syria, Moldova, and Haiti.

In acute conflict situations, life-saving decisions are made on incomplete evidence. Ground access is hindered, remotely collected data is fragmented, and the UN has limited shared capacity to turn available data it into operational intelligence. ​ ​ Compass structures geospatial and AI capabilities into an integrated evidence chain: OBSERVE turns satellite imagery into damage assessments and conflict tracking; PLAN applies machine learning to infrastructure prioritization and resource allocation; TRACK delivers donor-grade monitoring and SDG impact measurement from remote sensing. ​

Compass is operational in 18 conflict-affected settings since 2018. For example, in Afghanistan, Compass-supported land release underpinned the development of 4,000 family homes, 9 schools, 100+ km of roads, and a USD 1 billion economic zone. Over 1.7 million beneficiaries of risk education were tracked through the global information management system in 2025, and 287,699 explosive remnants of war were destroyed or rendered safe.

Displacement data from 100+ country operations is collected through different tools, languages, and methods: making global consolidation slow, costly, and manual. DTM Data Foundations bridges local context and global comparability through a suite of tools built around a 1,700-question standardized Question Bank. Country data flows automatically into a Central Data Warehouse and Data Lake, where figures from conflict, climate, and economic crises can be consolidated and compared. A public API makes that data available to partners.

Data-to-analysis time has been reduced by 70%, eliminating weeks of manual cleaning across 35 country operations. Displacement data for tens of millions of people now flows automatically into a structured, AI-ready system. The DTM API has served over 200,000 requests since April 2025, giving UN agencies, governments, and NGO partners instant programmatic access to live, de-conflicted displacement data. The Data Kit is currently deployed across 35 country missions, with rollout to all 100+ operations planned within six months.

Refugees and host communities face compounded barriers to connectivity: unaffordable devices and data, restrictive SIM registration requirements, limited digital skills, and gaps in network coverage.​ ​ Connectivity for Refugees (CfR) is an initiative taking an adaptive, system-level approach combining data and evidence products, policy and regulatory engagement, and shared-value private sector partnerships. Working through country-level platforms, it convenes stakeholders to co-design commercially sustainable models aligned with community needs. ​

Active across 15 countries, the initiative has reached approximately 1.2 million forcibly displaced people and host community members through infrastructure, policy, and programme interventions. Over 30 community connectivity sites have been deployed, and upgraded networks have reached over one million people in remote areas. Policy and regulatory changes have been advanced in two countries, and decision-quality data products on network availability and uptake have been produced for eight countries.

Adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries often have limited reliable, accessible sources of menstrual health information, and existing commercial apps were not built for them. Oky is an open-source menstruation education and period tracking app co-created with adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. Registered as a Digital Public Good, it operates across 13+ countries and 23+ languages via smartphone, SMS, IVR, and radio, scaled through a social franchise of local organizations.

Independent causal evaluation across three countries found one in three girls attributed changes in their menstrual health practices directly to Oky, with 60% spontaneously linking it to improved knowledge. Oky is integrated into Indonesia's national teacher platform, with potential reach of five million teachers, and endorsed across 223 School Division Offices in the Philippines. Over one million additional girls are reached through offline channels including SMS, IVR, radio, and peer learning.

WFP's global supply chain planning relied on manual, Excel-based processes with no end-to-end visibility, risk assessment, or ability to account for volatile demand and market disruptions. Scout is an AI-powered supply and inventory planning solution built on WFP's DOTS platform. It integrates demand forecasts, prices, capacities, lead times, risks, inventory, and donor constraints to generate optimized monthly procurement, pre-positioning, and transport plans for WFP's Global Commodity Management Facility.

In West Africa, Scout delivered USD 6.8 million in cost efficiencies in 2024-2025, with 98% of purchases executed during optimal harvest windows. Now in early rollout across multiple regions including WACARO, ESARO, and Global SNF, the platform supports upstream planning across 80+ countries and thousands of suppliers, shifting WFP from reactive, manual planning to integrated, AI-driven decision-making.

Since multilingualism is a core UN mandate, all official documentation is issued in the six official languages, ensuring high quality and timeliness. This is exceptionally resource intensive, with DGACM processing ~240 million words per year.​ ​ DGACM developed eLUNa, a web-based interface designed to automate the translation process while ensuring high quality in the six official languages. eLUNa automatically identifies recycled text and routes all new content to AI powered machine translation. In line with the “human in the loop” approach, United Nations linguists review the machine generated outputs and make necessary refinements.​

eLUNa has been widely adopted by teams across the UN system.

In low-income, remote, and crisis-affected settings, guidance on parenting is often unavailable in local languages, inaccessible offline, or disconnected from the health services families actually use.​ ​ Bebbo is UNICEF's free, open-source parenting platform and Digital Public Good, delivering expert-reviewed, age-appropriate guidance across child health, nutrition, early learning, playful parenting, protection, and caregiver wellbeing. Each national version is co-developed with governments and reflects national policy. ​

Bebbo is available in 20 countries across five continents in 28 language variations, with 1.75 million downloads and 100,000 to 300,000 weekly active users. Among 24,000+ surveyed users, 87% report satisfaction, 79% improved understanding of responsive parenting, and 85% report better ability to track child development.

Fewer than 90 jaguars survive in Argentina's Misiones rainforest. When a jaguar kills livestock, the loss can represent months of income for subsistence farmers, making retaliatory killing a desperate response to uncompensated loss. The Jaguar Protection Insurance transfers risk management to a private insurer and verification to conservation NGOs. Farmers are compensated within 10 days at no cost. The provincial government purchases the policy on their behalf.

During the pilot period, zero jaguars were reported killed in retaliation in covered areas. Six jaguar predations were confirmed and compensated within 10 days. A 300% surge in predation reports after launch revealed years of systematic under-reporting, reshaping the actuarial model and demonstrating that restoring farmer trust unlocks data previously invisible to the system. The scheme scaled from 20,000 to 100,000 people covered following the pilot.

Mauritius's public healthcare system ran on fragmented, paper-based records, producing data loss, duplicate patient files, and no continuity of care across facilities, showing care gaps the COVID-19 pandemic made impossible to ignore. A national eHealth platform co-developed by UNDP and the Government of Mauritius is digitizing the full patient journey from registration to clinical consultation. Core modules include a Patient Administration System, Patient Portal, and Blood Bank system. A Digital Health Architecture Blueprint underpins the platform on zero-trust security principles.

Since going live, the platform has digitized 213,269 patient visits, captured 212,761 doctor interactions, facilitated 37,130 appointments and 6,162 admissions, and migrated 23,245 legacy paper files into the new system. Currently at early rollout stage within Mauritius, the initiative is on track for full island-wide deployment of the core Patient Administration System within 12 months, with specialty modules for oncology, eye, and mental health to follow in major hospitals.

Ukraine's social protection system relied on fragmented registries, paper-based workflows, and manual verification. UISSS is a national interoperable platform integrating multiple social registries, programmes, and service providers into a single system. It automates eligibility verification, case management, and benefit administration while enabling secure data exchange with other state systems. It digitized end-to-end workflows from application to payment.

UISSS is now a nationwide system managing millions of beneficiary records through a unified platform. It has significantly reduced processing times for social assistance applications, eliminated duplicate records through interoperable data exchange, and improved crisis responsiveness during displacement. The system operates at national scale in Ukraine, serving both day-to-day social services and emergency response within one government-owned platform.

Starting a business in Honduras requires 11 procedures and takes 42 days. Dispersed information, bureaucratic processes, and fragmented systems deter investment. The Digital Investment Portal supports Honduras in building a digital ecosystem to revitalize its business climate. Using UNDP's SIGOB methodology, it subjects investment procedures to radical simplification, digitization, and automation across 21 institutions.

In 18 months, over 140 procedures were digitized and automated across 21 institutions, delivering more than 300,000 online services to citizens and registering over 50,000 users. Response times for procedures have been reduced by between 30% and 90% depending on the service. The platform now serves everyone from local micro-entrepreneurs to international investors seeking entry into the Honduran market.

India's youth faces unmet sexual and reproductive health needs, but stigma and conservative norms limit open discussion. Misinformation persists and care-seeking is delayed. JustAsk! is a 24/7 AI chatbot offering a safe, non-judgmental platform for youth to access expert-validated sexual and reproductive health and mental health information. Built on a controlled AI architecture with human-centred design, it delivers personalised, multilingual support across WhatsApp in five Indian languages via the government's Bhashini AI platform.

Since launching in mid-2023, JustAsk! has reached nearly one million unique users across 20 states, resolving over 3.6 million queries. Around 45% of users are female, reaching a demographic that faces the highest barriers to confidential health information. Nearly 90,000 users have been connected to health facilities and helplines.

The UN has invested heavily in conflict prevention and response, but without comparable evidence on why individuals join armed groups, how they disengage, and which interventions produce sustained exits. ​ ​ MEAC developed an Agreed Framework with metrics for measuring reintegration success and a unified methodology for evaluating whether interventions genuinely support exits from armed conflict.

Since 2019, MEAC has conducted 78,500 interviews across six countries, produced 86 publications with over 10,000 downloads since January 2025, and built 10 interactive dashboards generating 5,800 views. Its Conflict Exits Assessment Framework has informed the revision of the Integrated DDR Standards and operationalized the Vancouver Principles. In 2025 alone, 44 events reached 3,500 participants across high-level fora including the Stockholm Forum and Geneva Peace Week.

The UN operates in 64 countries with high to very high-risk areas, with UN staff are at risk delivering assistance, and where threats evolve faster than response capacity can adapt.​ ​ The UN Emergency Response Team (ERT) closes the gap between crisis onset and security capacity. When crises overwhelm in-country resources, ERT deploys within 72 hours, delivering security coordination, analysis, operational planning, and logistics support.​

Since 2023, ERT has supported 21 emergency responses across 10 high-risk contexts, delivering 107 surge deployments across 25 countries with an average response time of 5 to 7 days. Approximately USD 8 million in in-kind expert support has been mobilized across 8 countries through the Standby Partnership Programme.

Aviation emissions reporting has been inconsistent and fragmented, with multiple competing calculators producing incomparable results.​ ​ The ICAO Carbon Emissions Calculator provides a single, globally standardized methodology for calculating CO₂ emissions from air travel, adopted by ICAO's 193 Member States. It converts aircraft type, route distance, cabin configuration, and operational factors into comparable emissions results through a digital app, web portal, and API.​

For over five million Palestinian refugees, accessing UNRWA services required a physical office visit.​ ​ eUNRWA enables refugees to create a verified digital identity, update family records, register life events, download official documents, and check service eligibility entirely through a mobile app. AI-assisted verification handles identity matching and duplicate detection automatically, with a video call option for cases requiring human review. A QR-enabled service card handles eligibility checks on the spot.​

More than 250,000 Palestinian refugees were digitally verified through eUNRWA between mid-2023 and early 2026.