There has been a significant increase in the evidence base on the socioeconomic situation of those forcibly displaced and their host communities over the past decade. With the number of forcibly displaced now surpassing 100 million and with the most recent displacement crisis following the war in Ukraine, it has become ever more important to distill insights and lessons from displacement contexts around the world, for improved and evidence-driven responses.

The Center held a virtual seminar on New and Upcoming KoboToolbox Features on May 26th at 15:00 CET (09:00 EST). The goal of the seminar is for practitioners to learn about new and upcoming features developed by Kobo Inc, the non-profit behind KoboToolbox. JDC and UNHCR have partnered with Kobo Inc. to create additional features and enhancements for the benefit of organizations working to assist and protect displaced populations.

From March 7th -15, The Center participated in the Fragility Forum hosted by the World Bank. The Center has produced a podcast conversation on the “The next ten years of the Mosaic Effect: minimizing disclosure risk from multiple sources in an ever-growing data ecosystem” as part of the Fragility Forum.

The JDC’s 2nd Research Conference on Forced Displacement was held on January 20-22, 2022 in partnership with the School of Economics at Universidad de los Andes.

JDC Webinar - Answering the Call: Forcibly Displaced During the Pandemic  The Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) recently published a working paper, called Answering the Call: Forcibly Displaced During the Pandemic, the second issue as part of the JDC...

Making the most vulnerable visible: Data gaps and official statistics on forced displacement EGRIS-JDC UNWDF Session © UNHCR/Georgina GoodwinThe Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) in collaboration with The Expert Group on Refugee and Internally Displaced...

The role of data in policymaking was at the center of this seminar organized by the JDC as part of its Quarterly Seminar Series and which also represented the JDC contribution to the UN World Data Forum 2020.

The JDC held a seminar on Perception Surveys among Displaced Populations – Lessons Learned and Innovations, with Phuong Pham and Patrick Vinck of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.