Support EGRIS’s development of international recommendations on statistics on statelessness; and improve statelessness estimation and aggregation methods.

Support the Expert Group on Refugee and IDP Statistics (EGRIS) in its implementation of the international recommendations on refugee and IDP statistics, through dissemination of the recommendations, strengthening capacity of national statistical systems to apply them, and enhancement of the associated Compilers’ Manual.

Work with countries and custodian agencies to ensure that affected populations are included in the data production and reporting on priority SDG indicators. 

Develop and mature forced displacement-sensitive data methods to enhance comparability and construct validity.

Support the monitoring of the scope and coverage of MDB’s projects and programs related to forced displacement, identify gaps in their research and analytical work, and provide tools to researchers and project managers to easily discover useful information in this vast knowledge repository. MDBs make much of their respective research output and project documents publicly available. The project will build a largely automated system (based on machine learning, natural language processing tools and methods) that will extract and organize information contained in these documents, to provide a detailed description of how MDBs, over time and across countries, address forced displacement and related issues.

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Support the ongoing development of KoBoToolbox for collecting data on those affected by forced displacement through improved sustainability and knowledge management as well as improve data literacy and standards through improved knowledge management and ultimately better the quality of data informing humanitarian and development decision-making.

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Identify, document and fill data gaps leveraging geospatial technologies in IDP and refugee settings leveraging non-traditional data by collecting, cataloging, curating and making these data available to the public via relevant platforms, to the JDC to support data collection efforts, and to national statistical offices and relevant stakeholders working in these contexts.

Foster creative and innovative methods, tools and technological solutions in often data-scarce environments and used to collect and analyze evidence on issues of forced displacement.  By encouraging innovation through support for project pilots using experimental and novel approaches to data collection and/or analysis, it aims at improving the quality and quantity of data and analysis as the successful projects may subsequently be integrated and scaled up in the different phases of data production (collection, analysis and dissemination) of forcefully displaced populations and host communities.

Develop and provide tools, guidelines and methods for improving data quality for surveys on FDPs and host communities, as well as build capacity around their use. These produces tools are critical in the different phases of the survey design and implementation (sampling design & creation, questionnaire design and data collection) in improving the quality of the data collected and managed on populations affected by forced displacement. The proposed tools will be built around free or open source solutions and designed to operate in capacity-constrained environments.

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Data on IDPs to be collected as part of 2021 EHCVM, implemented by the CAR National Statistical Office with technical assistance from the World Bank. Extra modules on forced displacement are added to the survey and a dedicated sampling strategy is applied to select respondents in IDP sites.

Data collection to be undertaken by the Central Statistics Agency (CSA) in close collaboration with the Agency for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA) and the World Bank. The plan is to undertake the refugee survey simultaneously with the official Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES), undertaken by the CSA.

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Data collection to be based on a representative sample of refugees explicitly stratified by location and country of origin, as well as host communities. The questionnaire will be compatible with Kenya’s Continuous Household Survey Framework (KCHS) to allow for comparative analysis, but also include a special module on specific vulnerabilities.

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Support household surveys to include refugees, returnees, IDPs and host communities, adding relevant samples to the national household survey, or as part of a stand-alone survey.

Identify and monitor displaced populations to understand their profiles and socioeconomic conditions; Conduct qualitative interviews with key information; Undertake a detailed cartographic exercise to build a sampling framework and; Conduct household survey.

Conduct a socio-economic assessment of refugees and host communities with a household survey covering a national sample and a targeted sample of camp-based refugees, host communities and refugees in urban areas.

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Design and implement Rapid Monitoring Systems (IRMS) for collecting data on IDPs in close collaboration with the National and Regional Statistics Offices, UNHCR, and Statistics Sweden. Efforts will be made to make the questionnaires compatible with the national comprehensive household survey (SIHBS).

 Baseline Data Collection for Impact Evaluation

Generate original, timely and reliable evidence to fill egregious knowledge gaps on flows, patterns, living conditions, service provision, and income earning opportunities.

Work with an experienced call center and set up a digital platform to continuously collect data from key informants to produce analytics feeding into the humanitarian and development response supporting displaced populations. 

Inform the medium-term response to Cox’s Bazar’s development and the Rohingya influx through the (i)  creation of a data and statistics center that can track key welfare indicators for Rohingya displaced and hosts in the medium and long term to identify critical areas for policy action; (ii) initiation of a locally-driven evidence-based policy dialogue on refugee-focused policies and interventions; and (iii) activating the use of short-term data from ongoing project interventions to build the evidence on what can work.

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The Crisis Observatory to conduct mobile phone-based structured interviews with forcibly displaced households and hosts. The information collected will focus on development- and welfare-relevant information, including household socio-economic characteristics.

Carry out analytical work based on the 2019 Chad national poverty survey, to provide rigorous evidence to inform policy responses to manage the refugee situation and support the government and international community to improve programs supporting refugees and host communities.

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Harmonize data available to either the World Bank and/or UNHCR from multiple sources to prepare welfare analytics for countries which host a large number of refugees, particularly refugees from the Syria crisis.

Measuring changes in socio-economic welfare since COVID-19 on FDPs, and host communities.

Provide UNHCR’s country operations with the capacity to generate in-depth research and analytics from socio-economic data.

Facilitation of further analytical work for each country and a cross-country analysis of the experience of displaced populations and their hosts in the selected countries.

Support the continuous discovery, cleaning, documenting and anonymizing of the backlog of data present in UNHCR’s various operations and technical sections for publication on the Raw Internal Data Library and Microdata Library. It will also assist in institutionalizing the use of the RIDL as a corporate application and will standardize curation procedures and methods described in the Data Curation Handbook, through capacity development and trainings of UNHCR’s Data, Identity Management and Analysis staff. It will further familiarize staff members with the roles and procedures on Data Dissemination.

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Define a comprehensive and practical framework of procedures, tools and systems for all relevant data producers or holders that will facilitate the responsible dissemination of microdata. The objective of increasing availability and access to microdata will be pursued with a specific concern to provide tools and methods to identify, assess and minimize risk of potential harm to data subjects.

Support the establishment and further enhancement of UNHCR’s external Microdata Library system, through technical support and knowledge sharing from the World Bank Microdata Library team to UNHCR. Moreover, enhance the identification and organization of content related to forced displacement in the World Banks’s catalog.

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Enhance the centralization, standardization and quality control capabilities around UNHCR’s global registration database with a view to improve access and use.

Provide technical assistance to a UNHCR-coordinated effort for refugee hosting countries to develop a shared understanding and common methodology to measure the impact of hosting, protecting, and assisting refugees.

 Develop mapping exercises of existing data and evidence, and that which emerges from the projects included in other areas of the JDC work plan. Its main deliverables will consist of a range of summary studies, topical reports and derivative products.

The JDC Outreach activities include a quarterly seminar series; an annual research conference; monthly newsletters and literature reviews; a quarterly digest series; blog posts; JDC webpage; support to agenda-setting publication(s); and separate activities designed to respond to immediate requests from the research community.

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Lend support to an institutional assessment of refugee laws and policies, including through the sponsor of the online data platform of de jure asylum and refugee policies developed and maintained by a joint team of academics based at Stanford University and University of Pennsylvania.

The Fellowship program aims to train young scholars and professionals from displaced or host communities in middle- and low-income countries. The Fellows’ activities are coordinated in collaborations with the World Bank and UNHCR. The senior visiting stays will allow experienced researchers to visit the JDC to develop their research on forced displacement, while providing inputs into the JDC activities and offer guidance to its Staff members.

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