Felix Schmieding, Senior Statistician at the World Bank – UNHCR Joint Data Center participated in the session Leaving no-one behind: Inclusion of forcibly displaced in national surveys and the SDG indicators.

The Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) facilitated a ‘Learn Lab’ titled “Including refugees and IDPs in national statistical systems: Why and How?” The event aimed to share practical guidance on how to include refugees and IDPs into existing workstreams of National Statistical Offices.

The Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC), in collaboration with the Expert Group on Refugee, IDP and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) co-organized a side-event titled ‘Including the excluded: better data on statelessness’ during the United Nations World Data Forum 2023 to introduce the International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics (IROSS).

The Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) in collaboration with the Expert Group on Refugee, IDP and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) will hold a session during the United Nations World Data Forum 2023.

Björn Gillsäter, Head of the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC), participated in the event with a Ted Talk titled “Making the Invisible Visible through Statistics.”

The UK Aid-World Bank-UNHCR Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement Research program presented studies that examined the cost effectiveness of proposed livelihood interventions in displacement contexts along with a perspective from Ecuador.

On World Refugee Day at UN City in Copenhagen, three people who had fled war talked about their experience integrating into Denmark at an event hosted by the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) and moderated by Maja Lazic, Deputy Head of the Center.