As a key implementation pillar for the CoE, the SIDS Global Data Hub is a central data repository to support evidence-based decision-making across SIDS. It provides access to new and relevant data sources, geospatial technology enablers, innovative dashboards, and visualization tools.
The Global Data Hub, as an integrated data ecosystem, allows governments to visualize and share their data, monitor public investments, identify critical interlinkages, track progress on the SDGs, and make better and more informed decisions towards investing in resilient and inclusive development.
As noted in the ABAS, SIDS face significant challenges in data collection, analysis, technical and institutional capacity, which hinder evidence-informed policymaking, monitoring progress, and accessing development financing.
Strengthening national data infrastructure, digital systems, and institutional capacity.
Improving access to disaggregated, high-quality, and timely data, including downscaling global datasets to SIDS realities.
Advancing the use of geospatial technologies for data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
Facilitating peer-to-peer learning through structured partnerships, including regional and statistical bodies.
All data shared through or generated by the SIDS Global Data Hub remains the property of the originating State and is governed by nationally defined data policies, legal frameworks, and consent protocols. Data from countries does not need to be copied, duplicated, or given away when operating within a Data Hub environment. Instead, the data is published and shared in the Hub, operating as a trusted coordination and integration platform supporting countries to curate, standardize, and securely manage their own data in ways that enhance national decision-making while enabling voluntary, purpose-driven aggregation for regional and global reporting. This approach ensures that data remains with custodians at its source within countries, strengthens sovereignty, policy autonomy, and capacity, rather than diluting it. In addition, the Data Hub does not extract, centralize, or repurpose data without authorization.
National Development: The SIDS Global Data Hub will support national development by strengthening country-owned data systems and enabling governments to integrate national and sub-national data into coherent, decision-ready analytics. Through down-stream capabilities such as SIDS Country Data Hubs and Map Portfolios, governments can assess development priorities, monitor public investments, and align policy decisions across social, economic, and environmental sectors.
Multilateral Reporting: At the multilateral level, the Data Hub will reduce reporting fragmentation by aligning national data with the ABAS and its Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, the Sustainable Development Goals, and other global frameworks, enabling SIDS to meet international reporting obligations more efficiently and consistently.
Financial Frameworks: By improving data quality, transparency, and comparability, the Data Hub will also strengthen financing frameworks, providing the credible, high-resolution evidence required by development partners, climate funds, and investors to assess risk, structure financing, and support bankable projects.
The SIDS Global Data Hub is designed to complement and interoperate with existing national, regional, and United Nations data systems rather than duplicate them. It aligns with established UN and regional platforms, statistical standards, and reporting frameworks, enabling seamless data exchange where authorized. This ensures efficiency, reduces reporting burdens, and allows countries to leverage existing investments in data systems while benefiting from a coordinated, SIDS-led architecture.
Launch of the Global Data Hub architecture.
Rollout of 10 Country Data Hubs (Antigua & Barbuda, Grenada, Suriname, Fiji, Palau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles).
Regionalized training and onboarding (Caribbean, Pacific, AIS) in Q3–Q4.
Progressive deployment of Country Hubs to all SIDS.
Expansion of Regional Hubs.
Continuous dataset updates, model integration, and tool development.
2026
Initial Cohort of 10 Pilot Countries
Antigua & Barbuda
Grenada
Suriname
Fiji
Palau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Maldives
Mauritius
Seychelles
