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.

A two-day workshop was organized in May in conjunction with the Government of Estonia to advance anonymization and aggregation practices as a first step in establishing a campaign to make UNHCR’s registration data more accessible.

The JDC, in March 2020, held a seminar titled “A Market for Work Permits” with Martin Ravallion, Edmond D. Villani Professor of Economics, Georgetown University.

The JDC partnered with the Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) and Middle East Initiative (MEI) at Harvard University, Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University and World Bank’s Development Economics Research Group, to host its 1st Research Conference on Forced Displacement on January 16-18, 2020 at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Center held a session on data and evidence at the 2019 Global Refugee Forum.