28th – 30th October 2025
The 2025 All Members Meeting of the Expert Group on Refugee, IDP and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS) convened in Warsaw, Poland, with 105 participants to review progress against the 2020–2025 Terms of Reference and chart a strategic path forward. Discussions highlighted successful implementation of the International Recommendations on Refugee, IDP, and Statelessness Statistics (IRRS, IRIS, and IROSS) at national, regional, and global levels. A Summary Report is available.
Meeting deliberations demonstrated both the maturity of EGRISS and the strong network that has been formed over time. Members showed strong support for a new mandate to maintain the collaborative platform, revise the Recommendations and monitor their implementation, outlining specific priorities: strengthen capacity development for sustainable change at national level; expand regional engagement including in underserved areas; address methodological gaps; enhance available guidance on statelessness and administrative data; demonstrate policy impact through case studies; and forge stronger connections to migration statistics frameworks and groups. The challenge: delivering these priorities within significantly more constrained environment.
Progress made
Key achievements highlighted during the meeting include finalizing the IROSS, official translations of IRRS and IRIS into French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic, the Recommendations at a Glance series, the E-learning Course, and revision of the Compiler’s Manual on Forced Displacement. Since the Recommendations were endorsed, EGRISS has tracked 304 implementation examples through its Global Annual Inclusion (GAIN) Survey — 235 of these were country-led initiatives.
The meeting brought these achievements to life by featuring over 50 presentations and posters from countries and regional bodies that generated valuable peer-to-peer exchanges. Six working groups tackled specific challenges from ongoing or planned Technical Subgroup workstreams.
Meeting Context
With 123.2 million people forcibly displaced worldwide by the end of 2024, reliable and harmonized displacement statistics are urgently needed. The meeting’s timing, ahead of the Global Refugee Forum Progress Review Meeting in December, positioned the EGRISS community to inform policy dialogue on forced displacement and statelessness.
Keynote addresses by Paweł Kowal (Poland’s Foreign Relations Committee Chair) and Ruven Menikdiwela (UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner) grounded technical discussions in political realities: displacement statistics are essential infrastructure for governance and development planning, vital for improving the lives of millions affected by forced displacement.
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The 2025 All Members meeting was hosted by Statistics Poland, with financial support from the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
