Resources
The Question of Data in Internal Displacement Law-and-Policy-making
Article published in the Refugee Survey Quarterly looking at the intersections between the areas of law, policy and data collection on IDPs.
Migration and the 2030 Agenda: Making everyone count – migrants and refugees in the Sustainable Development Goals
This briefing paper analyzes the need for the systematic inclusion, through data disaggregated by migratory status, of migrants and refugees.
Displaced but Not Disappeared
This blog describes the challenges associated to IDP data in Ukraine and explores how to address these difficulties based on the IRIS.
EGRISS Newsletter – Nov 2020
The EGRISS newsletter highlights the progress made by the group during its third phase of work.
Using collaborative approaches to improve internal displacement data
By highlighting initiatives from the GP20 Plan of Action, this article, published in the Forced Migration Review, looks at the CAR and Somalia as examples of good practices in making available quality data on internal displacement.
UNHCR’s Global Trends – 2019
UNHCR’s annual report provides demographic information and global trends associated with forced displacement and statelessness as of 2019.
Compilers’ Manual
The Compilers’ Manual is a practical guide to support countries to put the International Recommendations on Refugee and IDP statistics into practice.
International Recommendations on Internally Displaced Persons Statistics (IRIS)
The IRIS outline an internationally-agreed framework for countries and international organisations to improve statistics on internally displaced persons.
Summary of Global Consultation of International Recommendations on IDP Statistics (IRIS)
Summary of the results of the global consultation on the International Recommendations on IDP Statistics (IRIS).
Report of the Expert Group on Refugee and Internally Displaced Persons Statistics (2020)
This report summarizes the two main documents submitted by the EGRISS to the UNSC in 2020, namely the IRIS and the Compilers’ Manual.
Statisticians as Back-office Policymakers: Counting Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Europe
Article published in the Science, Technology and Human Values Journal looking into the role of statisticians who are not just producing numbers but also deciding what is deemed politically important.
Technical Report on Statistics of Internally Displaced Persons
This technical report provides a stock-take of existing approaches to collecting IDP statistics and statistical quality issues.