ESA
The European Space Agency (ESA), an intergovernmental organization of 22 member states, has funded World Data Lab’s ongoing Age Spot project, developed in collaboration with our partner GeoVille. By applying new modelling techniques to a range of data, AgeSpot models and forecasts demographic information (specifically, population distribution by age group) at a very granular level.
GIZ & BMZ
World Data Lab received funding from the German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH (GIZ) to underwrite the development of the World Poverty Clock (linked to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 1) and the development of the Water Scarcity Clock (linked to Sustainable Development Goal 6). In addition to working with national and supranational government organizations, GIZ mainly implements technical cooperation projects of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), who also supported WDL’s Poverty and Water Clock projects.
IFAD
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized UN agency dedicated to eradicating rural hunger and poverty, is supporting an upgrade of the World Poverty Clock (linked to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 1) to allow for data disaggregation by age, gender, and location (rural vs urban), thus allowing WDL to paint a holistic picture of vulnerable populations across the globe. IFAD is also underwriting the creation of the World Hunger Clock (linked to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 2), a project which will aim to establish a consistent and forecastable approach to modelling hunger for every country in the world.