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JDC newsletter, July 2022
Data, displacement and food security Dear Colleagues, Last month, the President of the World Bank Group, David Malpass, came to Copenhagen to attend the Nordic Baltic Governors Meeting and to visit the Joint Data Center. At the meeting, he stated that “the ripple...
JDC Support to Integrating forcibly displaced populations into COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Surveys
In coordination with the COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Survey work by the World Bank and its partners, the Joint Data Center is supporting the expansion of those efforts to include data collection on forcibly displaced populations in several countries including Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Iraq, and Jordan.
Food Security Crisis in Yemen 2020- September 2021
Yemen experienced sharp increases in food insecurity during 2020, and many Yemenis risk falling into famine.
With all eyes on Ukraine, research offers insights from the world’s other 86 million forcibly displaced
Authored by Domenico Tabasso, Senior Economist at the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced DisplacementA man who fled violence in Mocimboa da Praia sits outside his shelter at Nicuapa site for internally displaced persons in Montepuez district, Cabo Delgado...
DRC: Crisis Observatory and Household-Forced Displacement Survey in Eastern DRC
DRC: Crisis Observatory and Household-Forced Displacement Survey in Eastern DRC Background and Context Situations of conflict and fragility require dexterous decision making, which is only effective in the presence of up-to-date information. Without timely and...
Developing statistical standards on statelessness
Background and Context A significant “data gap” exists between the number of stateless people reported in UNHCR’s statistical publications (some 4.2 million people as of the 2019 Global Trends Report) and the often cited but unverified global estimate of 10 million...
Venezuelan Crisis: Regional data collection and analysis on the refugee-like population in Chile, Colombia, Peru & Ecuador
Background and Context A staggering 12% to 18% of Venezuelans have left their country forced by the onset of the political crisis. And, pessimistic economic forecasts suggest an increase in the Venezuelan refugee-like population. The economic, social, political, and...
Mashreq Region: Mitigating the poverty impact of COVID-19 on host communities and refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and the KRI
Background and Context The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns and economic shocks had an enormous impact on refugee-hosting countries in the Mashreq region—Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. During the pandemic, these countries faced challenging circumstances, such...
Djibouti: Identifying and monitoring displaced populations
Background and Context Over the past decade, Djibouti has become a country of destination and transit for migrants and forcibly displaced populations over the Gulf of Aden and through the Horn of Africa. The country has thus started to play an important security role...