Artifical Intelligence for Development Analytics, better known as AIDA, was developed by UNDP's Independent Evaluation Office in 2022. Back then, it was a bold experiment: a prototype built in collaboration with Amazon Web Services and United Nations International Computing Centre to test whether artificial intelligence could help users navigate the vast archive of UNDP evaluations.

It used natural language processing to extract evidence at the paragraph level, offering a glimpse into how AI could transform evaluative learning. The early version of AIDA laid the groundwork for smarter, faster access to insights—connecting users with lessons from UNDP’s global work on poverty, climate change, governance, and more.

AIDA has now entered a new chapter, made possible by rapid improvements in the quality and customization possibilities of AI-powered chatbots. It still helps users access evidence from nearly 7,000 UNDP evaluation reports— but it's become even faster, smarter, and more user-friendly.

Whether you're designing a project, shaping policy or learning from the past—AIDA is your evidence ally. It is a powerful tool for learning about UNDP's work, identifying examples of specific approaches and their results or even advanced methodological use like evaluation synthesis work.

With AIDA, you can…

• Ask and receive answers in any language
• Get immediate insights
• Browse and download cited reports

AIDA is hosted securely on UNDP’s Microsoft Azure infrastructure. Your data stays private—nothing you enter is used to train AI models.

Try it out for yourself at aida.undp.org and share your feedback with us through the button next to the search field.