Technical Subgroup 2:
Methodological Research and
Guidance Development
The Technical Subgroup 2 brings members together to advance EGRISS’ methodological goals and ensure relevant guidance is available to support countries to implement the International Recommendations on Refugee, IDPs and Statelessness Statics (IRRS, IRIS and IROSS). The group’s main objectives are to identify and research any methodological gaps that hinder the direct application of the IRRS/IRIS/IROSS in statistical production (including through the development of methodological research papers) and to ensure the continued up-to-dateness, useability and relevance of the EGRISS Compilers Manual (CM).
Within the framework of the group’s global workplan, members work in small Task Teams to develop collective outputs. Some of the recent outputs include:
Methodological paper on standardized refugee and IDP identification questions in surveys
Methodological Paper on a harmonized statistical measure for exits from the stock of IDPs
Current task teams work on:
• Expansion of Compiler’s Manual to reflect the new IROSS.
• Methodological paper on maturation of the IRIS composite measure for overcoming key displacement-related vulnerabilities
• Methodological paper on statistical definition of host community
• Methodological paper on capturing 12 priority SDG indicators in forced displacement contexts
• Methodological paper on standardizing the IRIS “progress measure” indicators.
Members of the subgroup:
Representatives from National
Statistical Systems
- Central Statistical Agency (CSA), Ethiopia
- Unidad para las Víctimas, Colombia
- National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat), Georgia
- Kurdistan Regional Statistics Office (KRSO), Kurdistan Region of Iraq
- Institut National de la Statistique (INS), Cote d’Ivoire
- State Statistics Service, Ukraine
- Statistics Poland, Poland
Representatives from Academia, and Regional and International Organizations
- African Union (AU)
- Georgetown University, United States
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Joint IDP Profiling Services (JIPS)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
- United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)
- World Bank
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