AGEDI is a facilitator that enables informed decision-making in the region by:
- Evaluating the needs of its partners and leveraging global expertise to lead in the collation and interpretation of environmental data;
- Coordinating efforts to ensure that data is not only accessible, but adaptable; AGEDI can tailor data to suit the needs of partners so that information is converted into a format that can be easily digested;
- Developing and applying location and region-specific measures to present informative results that translate into sound environmental management, monitoring and best practice;
- Supporting policy-makers in various fields by facilitating the availability of and access to actionable information to serve as a basis for informed decision-making that takes the environment into account
AGEDI also serves as a resource and acts as a capacity-builder at the local, national, regional and international level by:
- Identifying data needs and working with subject matter experts to determine optimal strategies for data access, interpretation and dissemination;
- Encouraging stakeholder participation— local, national, regional and international — to enhance mechanisms of information processing and exchange, whereby effectively facilitating knowledge sharing and the development of institutional capacity for future replicability;
- Via its collaborations with UAE educational institutions, supporting capacity-building in environmental sustainability among UAE nationals;
- Connecting those in need of environmental data facilitation with international experts, and guiding the collaboration process;
- Enabling organisations to be more efficient and effective with their resources by sharing best practice and tried and tested systems and processes.