The 2024 GAIN Survey is closed

Thank you for participating and reporting on statistical examples including refugees, individuals in need of international protection, IDPs, and statelessness within national data systems and/or using the international recommendations produced by EGRISS.

EGRISS-UNESCWA first workshop for countries in Western Asia

Hosted by the League of Arab States in Cairo, the event welcomed participants from Government institutions and National Statistical Offices from 14 countries, including Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen.

EGRISS at the 5th UN World Data Forum

In collaboration with the Collaborative on Administrative Data (CAD) and members of the Statistical Conference of the Americas for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEA-CEPAL) working group, EGRISS organized a parallel session on migration and displacement statistics

Capturing priority SDG indicators in refugee, internal displacement and statelessness contexts

EGRISS’ newest methodological paper analyses data collection practice and computation methods for 14 prioritized Sustainable Development Goals indicators and identifies specific considerations that may be required to produce better data on refugee, IDP and stateless populations.

Recommendations at a Glance

Learn more about the IRSS, IRIS, and IROSS with the new EGRISS publications, which provides an overview of the International Recommendations and their key elements and underscores their significance and utilization in practice.

Register for the new self-paced course on IRRS, IRIS, and IROSS

Deepen your knowledge on concepts, legal frameworks, and methodologies to effectively gather, analyse, and share essential data and indicators with our 6-module course “The International Recommendations on Refugee, IDP and Statelessness Statistics”.

Implementation examples

 

Since the endorsement of the International Recommendations on Refugee and Internally Displaced Persons Statistics (IRRS and IRIS), the EGRISS Secretariat has been monitoring their implementation at national, regional, and global levels. In 2023, since the International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics were endorsed, EGRISS’ monitoring system was expanded to include statelessness statistics. Over 145 examples of planned, ongoing or completed initiatives have been identified so far. 

implementation

examples of concrete implementation

UN Statistical Commission

The Expert Group on Refugee, IDP
and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS)

 

The United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) established the Expert Group on Refugee, IDP and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS) at its 47th session in 2016, with the initial mandate to develop International Recommendations on Refugee Statistics (IRRS). EGRISS’ mandate was later extended to develop the International Recommendations on Internally Displaced Persons Statistic (IRIS) and a Compilers’ Manual. Currently, EGRISS is on its third mandate, focusing on the implementation of both sets of recommendations at national, regional and international levels as well as the development of the International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics (IROSS), successfully endorsed at the 54th session of the UNSC, in 2023. EGRISS is a multi-stakeholder group comprised by members from 60 national authorities and 37 regional and international organisations.

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mon02dec3:00 pmmon5:00 pmInformal quarterly briefing on the Global Compact on Refugees