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UNDP Indonesia · Village development sense-making

Make village development evidence easier to explore

The Sense-Making Dashboard helps users navigate policy, planning, and programme documents related to Indonesian village development and poverty alleviation. It turns complex source documents into an explorable map of levers, organizations, locations, themes, and supporting evidence.

Use it to search across documented initiatives, inspect relationships, compare patterns, and ask grounded questions with references back to the source materials.

Sense-Making Dashboard cards view showing search filters, result cards, and dashboard navigation.

A shared evidence base for policy dialogue

Village development involves many plans, programmes, institutions, locations, and implementation activities. Much of the relevant information already exists, but it is spread across long and complex documents. This dashboard helps make that documented landscape easier to inspect, discuss, and validate.

What this platform helps users do

Search across policy and programme levers

Start with a plain-language question or topic, such as support for village enterprises, food security, digital villages, infrastructure, or underdeveloped regions.

Trace evidence back to documents

Each lever is connected to source material where available, helping users move from an insight back to the document evidence behind it.

See relationships and overlaps

Network and heatmap views show how levers connect through organizations, locations, tiers, and development themes.

Explore geographic patterns

The map view shows where documented levers are linked to administrative areas or locations, while also making missing location data visible.

Ask grounded questions

The Q&A view combines graph context and retrieved source evidence to generate cited answers for exploration and workshop discussion.

From documents to sense-making

  1. 01

    Source documents

    Selected policy, planning, evaluation, and programme documents are used as the evidence base.

  2. 02

    Levers for change

    The platform identifies documented mandates, objectives, strategies, programmes, activities, and other interventions that may contribute to village development outcomes.

  3. 03

    Structured relationships

    Levers are connected to themes, organizations, locations, source documents, and related levers in a knowledge graph.

  4. 04

    Interactive exploration

    Users explore the evidence through cards, tables, networks, heatmaps, maps, and grounded Q&A.

  5. 05

    Workshop-ready insights

    The dashboard supports facilitated discussion by helping teams compare what is written in documents with what stakeholders know from implementation.

Choose the view that fits the question

Cards

Browse levers as readable summaries with tags, descriptions, evidence counts, and related metadata.

Open cards

Table

Compare many levers at once, scan evidence counts, and review structured metadata.

Open table

Network

Inspect relationships between levers, organizations, locations, clusters, and suggested policy connections.

Open network

Heatmap

Cross-check patterns between tiers, organizations, themes, and other dimensions.

Open heatmap

Map

Explore where documented levers are associated with locations across Indonesia.

Open map

Q&A

Ask a question and review a grounded answer with references to source evidence.

Open Q&A

Built for facilitated sense-making

The dashboard is designed to support discussion, not to replace judgement. It helps facilitators and participants inspect what the documents say, identify possible relationships, and ask sharper questions about implementation, coordination, and policy coherence.

Useful workshop questions

  • Which national priorities are reflected in local activities?
  • Which organizations appear to work on related themes?
  • Which locations are visible in the evidence, and which are not?
  • Where do programmes seem connected on paper but need validation in practice?
  • Which source documents support a specific claim?
Map dashboard view showing filtered lever locations across Indonesia.
Dashboard network view showing connected levers, organizations, and administrative areas.

Use as evidence support, not as a final authority

The dashboard reflects the documents currently included in the platform. It can reveal documented patterns and support discussion, but it does not prove what is happening on the ground. Users should check cited sources and validate findings with relevant stakeholders.

Start exploring the documented village development landscape

Open the dashboard to search, filter, visualize, and ask grounded questions across the current evidence base.