Blogs and Special Features
From identity to opportunity: Thailand’s new ID cards open a pathway to self-reliance
The Royal Thai Government has begun issuing official identity cards to refugees from Myanmar living in temporary shelters along the Thai–Myanmar border. This milestone builds on the Government’s August 2025 resolution, which allows registered refugees in the nine...
UNHCR’s new Refugee Data Portal will be launched in 2026
UNHCR’s new Refugee Data Portal was just announced at the Global Refugee Forum Progress Review! This trailer was screened at the Progress Review in Geneva to give delegates a glimpse of the new portal that will be launched in 2026. With JDC support, UNHCR is using the...
Forced Displacement in East Africa
How data can inform policy to address challenges faced by internally displaced people in the Central African Republic
By Harriet Mugera, Gervais Chamberlin Yama, and Jonathan LainThis article was first published on the Africa can end poverty Blog Cassava producer, Zerkongo, Central African Republic. Credit: Vincent Tremeau / World Bank Decades of division and conflict have left the...
Data can inform policies and programmes that can improve the situation for all
Interview of Maja Lazić, Deputy Head of the JDC, by Elisabeth Haslund about the work and ambitions of the innovative partnership – and on how data and analysis can concretely help improve the response to forced displacement.This article was first published on the...
From Kenya to Kyrgyzstan: how data can help eliminate statelessness
Authored by Maja Lazić , Head of the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement Against all odds, Nosizi (right), a stateless Shona living in Kenya, qualified and was accepted to study economics at the University of Nairobi after the institution made an...