Advancing Profiling Practice for Improved Evidence on Forced Displacement: JIPS' annual event 2019
Internal displacement situations are diverse, challenging, complex and often evolving over time. As the Danish Ambassador Morten Jespersen noted in his opening remarks to JIPS' 2019 annual event, there are no quick fixes and humanitarian responses alone will not fully address the phenomenon. One thing that is certainly needed is quality...Advancing Profiling Practice for Improved Evidence on Forced Displacement: JIPS' annual event 2019
Related Topics: Urban, Joint analysis, Durable solutions, Community engagement
– Published 18.Feb.2019
The Global Alliance Launches Key Publications for Improving Evidence & Responses to Crises in Cities
Displaced populations, whether internally displaced or refugees, are often relegated to the margins of the city. They may not have the same access to services as their non-displaced neighbours due to a variety of reasons: lacking the right documentation, discrimination, fewer social networks, or being forced to settle in already...The Global Alliance Launches Key Publications for Improving Evidence & Responses to Crises in Cities
Related Topics: Urban, Methods, Joint analysis
– Published 14.Feb.2019
Urban Momentum in Geneva: Looking Back at the High-Commissioner’s Dialogue 2018
Urban displacement appears to be taking an increasingly strong foothold in Geneva: after the launch of ICRC’s study on “Displaced in cities” and of IRC’s report on “Urban refuge”, as well as the endorsement of the Global Compact on Refugees end 2018, the 2018 High Commissioner’s Dialogue focused exclusively on...Urban Momentum in Geneva: Looking Back at the High-Commissioner’s Dialogue 2018
Related Topics: Urban
– Published 7.Feb.2019
Engaging Stakeholders in Joint Analysis in Darfur | Mission to Sudan in Nov 2018
JIPS is currently supporting the final stages of a profiling exercise and durable solutions analysis in North Darfur, Sudan, in collaboration with the World Bank, the Sudanese Government’s Joint Mechanism on Durable Solutions, the local authorities in El Fasher and the international community represented by the Durable Solutions Working Group....Engaging Stakeholders in Joint Analysis in Darfur | Mission to Sudan in Nov 2018
Related Topics: Durable solutions, Urban
– Published 10.Jan.2019
How Does Displacement Profiling Link to Neighbourhood Profiling? A Conversation with Riham Kowatly, UN-Habitat Lebanon
Riham Kowatly participated in the recent Profiling Coordination Training (PCT) where she learned about displacement profiling and what it takes to implement the collaborative process from start to finish. Riham is not new to profiling; she is actively engaged in the neighbourhood profiling exercises conducted by UN-Habitat in various cities...How Does Displacement Profiling Link to Neighbourhood Profiling? A Conversation with Riham Kowatly, UN-Habitat Lebanon
Related Topics: Methods, Urban
– Published 9.Jan.2019
Profiling Exchange with Built Environment Professionals to Inform Integration Planning in Thessaloniki, Greece
Recognising that different types of actors are needed for holistic responses to displacement in cities, JIPS is exploring new partnerships to better understand how these many actors can work together to collect information and jointly use results. More specifically, as Håvard Breivik and Tone Selmer-Olsen describe in the interview, given that solutions to urban displacement necessarily...Profiling Exchange with Built Environment Professionals to Inform Integration Planning in Thessaloniki, Greece
Related Topics: Capacity development, Urban
– Published 25.Oct.2018
The added value of direct support in Sudan - interview with Khadra Elmi, JIPS Profiling advisor
As JIPS, it is our priority to support partners involved in a profiling exercise, from the initial to the final stages of the process. We normally do this remotely and, during the most critical steps of the exercise, we often go on field missions to run workshops, train partners, engage...The added value of direct support in Sudan - interview with Khadra Elmi, JIPS Profiling advisor
Related Topics: Urban, Durable solutions, Community engagement
– Published 9.Oct.2018
Challenging Assumptions on Urban Displacement - ICRC report outlines the value of better data and analysis
Today, half of the world’s population lives in urban settings. By 2050, it is estimated that up to three quarters will live in a city with 90% of this growth taking place in cities of lower-income countries often at risk of fragility. In line with these urbanisation trends, internal displacement has...Challenging Assumptions on Urban Displacement - ICRC report outlines the value of better data and analysis
Related Topics: Urban
– Published 25.Sep.2018
Improving humanitarian and recovery response in Syria - Urban Analysis Network (UrbAN-S)
With more than 7.6 million internally displaced people, 85 percent of which living in host communities mainly in urban areas, the conflict in Syria has produced a huge, predominantly urban crisis. In line with our strategic goals of developing methods for urban profiling, in the past months we have been involved...Improving humanitarian and recovery response in Syria - Urban Analysis Network (UrbAN-S)
Related Topics: Urban
– Published 12.Sep.2018
Validating profiling findings by reporting back to communities, with facilitators from the displaced and local population
With the data collection phase recently concluded and the data analysis just about to start, the urban profiling exercise we have been supporting in Thessaloniki is now in its final stage. With a general objective to develop and test indicators for urban, local integration, to analyse future intentions and to assess access to...Validating profiling findings by reporting back to communities, with facilitators from the displaced and local population
Related Topics: Community engagement, Urban
– Published 9.Aug.2018
Connecting to Local Authorities & Collecting Useful Data: Takeaways from the Annual Global Alliance for Urban Crises Meeting 2018
Since 2016, the Global Alliance for Urban Crises has been working to improve responses to urban crises, whether caused by sudden onset disasters or protracted conflict situations, in order to effectively meet the needs of affected populations including those who have been forcibly displaced. For us at JIPS, building capacity for understanding displacement...Connecting to Local Authorities & Collecting Useful Data: Takeaways from the Annual Global Alliance for Urban Crises Meeting 2018
Related Topics: Urban
– Published 11.Jun.2018
ALNAP Report "What's Missing": Understanding Urban Context to Improve Response
Humanitarian and development practitioners generally accept that programs, policies, and processes need to be “context-specific” to reach their goals. With more and more crises impacting urban contexts, this conundrum is taking on a distinctly urban flavour. But what does context actually mean, and which tools are best suited to help...ALNAP Report "What's Missing": Understanding Urban Context to Improve Response
Related Topics: Urban
– Published 3.May.2018