Biodiversity Conservation Digital Readiness Assessment: a new tool to support KM-GBF implementation
CCF and UNDP have co-developed the National and Landscape level Biodiversity Digital Readiness Assessments (CB-DRA) to help countries strengthen the digital foundations needed to turn biodiversity data into coordinated action.
As countries work to deliver the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, digital capabilities are essential in helping local and national actors both achieve and measure targets. Yet, many countries lack the digital strategies, integrated systems, skills and governance needed to operationalise technologies on the ground, regionally and nationally.
To help close this gap, the Biodiversity Conservation Digital Readiness Assessment (BC-DRA) helps stakeholders assess national and landscape-level digital capabilities across six pillars and create high-level roadmaps for improvements. The pillars assessed include:
- Technology systems
- Digital Public Infrastructure for data exchange
- Regulations and Governance (digital policies, security and use)
- People, skills and capacity
- Connectivity and access
- Finance and innovation ecosystems
Piloted with the Government of Bolivia, the BC-DRA supports deep cross-sector collaboration across NGOs, ministries, communities and academia, pairing national and landscape-level analysis to identify gaps, opportunities and high-level technology strategies and recommendations.
The BC-DRA helps countries understand where they are today and what’s needed to turn policy ambitions into on-the-ground, data-driven biodiversity action.
Learn more about the Biodiversity Conservation Biodiversity Digital Readiness Assessment on UNDP’s website here.