Why publish on HDX?

Data-driven humanitarian action

By publishing your organization’s data on HDX, you help frontline responders, policymakers, analysts, and affected communities access the information they need to make informed decisions. You are joining a global community, made up of UN agencies, NGOs, research groups, private sector companies, and national authorities, committed to enabling faster, more effective, and more accountable humanitarian response through open and responsible data sharing.

HDX is managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Benefits of publishing data on HDX

• Support humanitarian response: Your data can directly inform operational planning, situational awareness, and early warning systems.
• Increase visibility and impact: Publishing on HDX ensures the wider humanitarian data community can make use of your data, furthering the impact of your work.
• Be part of the humanitarian data community: By publishing on HDX, you contribute to a collaborative community where partners can learn from each other’s approaches, tools, and use cases.
• Advocate for open data and access: Signals your commitment to transparency, accountability, and collaboration. HDX provides stable hosting and preserves all shared data. Older datasets are archived, never deleted, making them citable and reusable over time.
• Improve data quality and interoperability: Publishing on HDX invites feedback and validation, and helps align your data with global humanitarian standards. It also enhances compatibility with external systems and tools, such as dashboards and automated workflows.
• Track reach and use for reporting needs: Use the HDX Stats dashboard to see who is downloading your data, aiding reporting requirements from donors and stakeholders.
• Get support from the HDX team: From joint webinars to promotion through impact stories and social media, we help you share your work with our community.

Who publishes data on HDX?

Over 210 organizations actively publish data to HDX, including:

• UN agencies (e.g. WFP, IOM, UNICEF)
• NGOs (e.g. ACAPS, CARE, Danish Refugee Council)
• Academic institutions (e.g. ETH Zurich, Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology, University of Oxford)
• Private sector and tech groups (e.g. Google Research, Microsoft AI for Good, Meta Data for Good)
• National governments and coordination bodies