The UN Data Cube, developed in 2018, consists of six standards prescribing the UN system-wide financial data reporting requirements. It has contributed to the collection of more comprehensive and comparable data. From 2022, all six data standards will be mandatory, including those with a three-year transition period. This means that the UN system could, for the first time, have a comprehensive view of what is being spent in support of a specific SDG in a specific location, with the added dimension of whether these outflows refer to development-, humanitarian-, peace- or global agenda-related interventions.

About CEB: The UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) is the longest-standing and highest-level coordination forum of the United Nations system. In conjunction with its High-level Committees, CEB provides system-wide strategic guidance and promotes coherence and cooperation on a range of programmatic, policy and management issues faced by UN system organisations.

“…as a result of its achievements and potential to produce data for evidence-based decisions making, the UN Data Cube was one of the three strategic data initiatives recognised in the 2020 Data Strategy of the Secretary-General...”