EGRIS IDP Subgroup: Meeting in Kampala on International Recommendations on IDP Statistics
At the beginning of December all members of the IDP subgroup of the Expert Group on Refugee and IDP Statistics (EGRIS) gathered together in Kampala to discuss the finalisation of the International Recommendations on IDP Statistics (IRIS). The group had an ambitious workplan and important decisions to make in relation...EGRIS IDP Subgroup: Meeting in Kampala on International Recommendations on IDP Statistics
Related Topics: Refugee & IDP statistics
– Published 19.Dec.2018
Profiling Coordination Training 2018: new datasets, new sessions, updated scenario and extended topics
This year’s edition of our flagship training on profiling brought together 28 participants from more than 20 countries to work on the profiling process from start to finish. It was an exciting 6 days hands-on training using our revised fictional country scenario Freedonia and concrete examples from our profiling experience...Profiling Coordination Training 2018: new datasets, new sessions, updated scenario and extended topics
Related Topics: Capacity development
– Published 12.Dec.2018
IAEG-SDGs: Leaving no one behind through disaggregated data
Tasked to develop and implement the global indicator framework for the goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda, the Inter-agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) recently gathered in Sweden for a three-day meeting aimed to progress their work that started in 2015. Hosted by SIDA, the meeting included...IAEG-SDGs: Leaving no one behind through disaggregated data
Related Topics: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
– Published 21.Nov.2018
National ownership, traditional methods and new approaches to statistics production - Reflections from 2018 World Data Forum
With over 2,000 experts from more than 100 countries and numerous international organisations, civil society, private sector and academia, the second UN World Data Forum was an exciting opportunity to discuss initiatives and challenging nuts-yet-to-crack around IDP statistics. For our part, we organised a session on challenges and solutions to the production of...National ownership, traditional methods and new approaches to statistics production - Reflections from 2018 World Data Forum
Related Topics: Refugee & IDP statistics, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
– Published 5.Nov.2018
Innovating at THE Port Hackathon - Tackling the challenge of unstructured data to improve response
There is no such thing as too much information, right? Wrong! Sometimes, the large amount of information can create a lot of noise, which affects the ability of humanitarians to identify key characteristics of the situation in a crisis. A system to easily extract, process and interpret information meaningfully from all...Innovating at THE Port Hackathon - Tackling the challenge of unstructured data to improve response
Related Topics: Innovation
– Published 29.Oct.2018
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
Promoting IDP participation to shape durable solutions at the Human Rights Council 2018
At JIPS, we strongly believe that communities should be included in key stages of a profiling data cycle to ensure that the process reflects their realities and priorities. The centrality of IDP participation, outlined in the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, has recently been re-affirmed during a panel discussion on the human rights...Promoting IDP participation to shape durable solutions at the Human Rights Council 2018
Related Topics: Durable solutions, Community engagement
– Published 8.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
Profiling Coordination Training Through the Words of its Participants: Interview with Tarek Tamer, NRC
Designed to combine theory and practice informed by the real-life challenges encountered in the field, the Profiling Coordination Training (PCT) represents a truly comprehensive learning experience for actors involved in profiling displacement situations. To better explain what the training has to offer, we talked to Tarek Tamer, a former PCT...Profiling Coordination Training Through the Words of its Participants: Interview with Tarek Tamer, NRC
Related Topics: Capacity development
– Published 10.Sep.2018
Update from EGRIS’ Sub-Group on IDP Statistics: 3rd Geneva Meeting (Sep 2018)
With new countries (Georgia, Afghanistan and Honduras) and international organisations (IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix, DTM) and OCHA) joining the IDP subgroup of the international Expert Group on Refugee and IDP Statistics (EGRIS), the work is moving ahead at full speed in 2018. Tasked with developing International Recommendations on IDP Statistics (IRIS),...Update from EGRIS’ Sub-Group on IDP Statistics: 3rd Geneva Meeting (Sep 2018)
Related Topics: Refugee & IDP statistics
– Published 7.Sep.2018
Building Capacity for Joint Analysis: Kick-starting the Analysis Phase in Thessaloniki, Greece
Establishing a joint interpretation of the displacement situation among relevant actors is a precondition for a more coordinated and targeted response. Failing to correctly understand and interpret the data collected through a profiling exercise might mean quashing the whole process, and ending up preventing future collaboration among partners. A rigorous...Building Capacity for Joint Analysis: Kick-starting the Analysis Phase in Thessaloniki, Greece
Related Topics: Joint analysis, Capacity development
– Published 8.Aug.2018
Revitalising IDP research with the University of London’s Refugee Law Initiative
In the rising temperatures of the summer heat wave in London, the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) collected together researchers and practitioners for a one-day Special Workshop on Internal Displacement entitled ‘Revitalising the IDP Field’ 20 Years of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement’. Connected to RLI’s well-established annual conference, the Special Workshop was...Revitalising IDP research with the University of London’s Refugee Law Initiative
Related Topics: Durable solutions
– Published 13.Jul.2018