A standalone solution, the data for children collaborative (DCC) has used data to improve child health, education and wellbeing across the globe. One of the recent projects examined children’s exposure and vulnerability to climate change impacts which resulted in the development of a comprehensive index used by UNICEF that tracks these impacts.
The teams were able to successfully deliver a multi-dimensional index based upon equally weighted, global, widely-available data sets covering climate hazards and child vulnerabilities to those hazards which are now used as an advocacy tool.
Collaboration has been a huge part of the DCC, connecting experts across multiple fields including geosciences, social sciences, data sciences and government policymaking, highlighting the importance of data and the versatile ways in which it can be used.
