All data activities
Enhancing UNHCR’s analytical capacity
As more data becomes available in areas affected by forced displacement, UNHCR is scaling up its capacity to analyze and use socioeconomic data. For this, the JDC provides funds to hire new economists.
Forcibly displaced populations during COVID-19
The JDC supported the inclusion of samples of forcibly displaced populations in High Frequency Phone Surveys in Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Jordan, Iraq, Burkina Faso and Bangladesh.
Socioeconomic survey of refugees and migrants in Libya
The collection of socioeconomic data on migrants, refugees, IDPs and host communities in Libya that will inform social protection programs and become an integrated monitoring system for these populations.
Livelihoods of Refugees and Host Communities in Malaysia
A representative survey of Rohingya, other refugees from Myanmar and refugees from other countries and host communities in Malaysia of their needs.
UNHCR’s Microdata Library
This project aims to provide technical support from the World Bank so that content on forced displacement from the Bank’s microdata library can be shared on UNHCR’s microdata library.
Statistical Standards for Statelessness
Ensuring that statistical producers worldwide use the same definitions and approaches when capturing statelessness, by supporting EGRISS to develop international recommendations on statelessness statistics, for adoption by the UN Statistical Commission.
Intergrating World Bank microdata into the UNHCR microdata library
This project aims to provide technical support from the World Bank so that content on forced displacement from the Bank’s microdata library can be shared on UNHCR’s microdata library.
UNHCR Forced Displacement Survey
Three pilot surveys, in Cameroon, Pakistan and South Sudan of the Forced Displacement Survey, the first-of-its-kind survey programme will produce data on refugees that is multi-sectoral, comparable across countries, and fully aligned with international measurement standards.
Refugees in Uganda
The inclusion of a representative sample of refugees in the national Demographic and Health Survey in Uganda – one stratum for the northern population and another for those in the southwest, reflecting the current geographic distribution of refugees.
Refugees in Ethiopia
Expanding the government’s survey to cover refugees, producing data that is fully comparable with their hosts and that will enable policy makers to improve outcomes for both.
Internal displacement in Colombia
Support for the National Statistics Office (DANE) and Victims Unit (UARIV) in Colombia to improve statistics on internally displaced persons by implementing international standards, linking IDP data with other government sources, and carrying out additional analysis and policy work.
Statelessness and national censuses in Central Asia
Support to census activities in Central Asia will improve the technical infrastructure of National Statistical Offices and train census enumerators on citizenship status and statelessness, and conduct public awareness campaigns of statelessness to encourage the participation of stateless people in censuses.