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Events
February 2020
The sixth Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) will be held at the International Conference Centre (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland from 3-7 February 2020.
The HNPW is the annual event of the Leading Edge Programme (LEP) and the largest event of its kind. Every year, the HNPW brings together more than 2000 experts in crisis preparedness and response from over 350 organisations and countries.
IDMC's urban researcher Scott Loyd will be speaking about urban displacement on Monday 3 February at 12pm in room 5, with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and the World Bank. The briefing will provide an update on the respective efforts of the IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), IDMC and the World Bank regarding urban displacement research.
Find more info here.
International Conference Centre (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland
Publications
January 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the most people living in internal displacement associated with conflict or violence, with nearly 16.5 million at the end of 2018. It is where most new displacement associated with conflict and violence occurred in 2018. Disasters also led to more than 2.5 million new displacements in 2018, a historical record.
This report presents estimates of the economic impacts of internal displacement on displaced people and host communities in Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. These estimates are based on the first standard survey developed to measure the financial consequences of internal displacement on livelihoods, housing, health, education and security.
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Events
February 2020
The World Urban Forum (WUF) was established in 2001 by the United Nations to address one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanisation and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies. The Forum is a high level, open and inclusive platform for addressing the challenges of sustainable urbanisation.
The Tenth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF 10) will be held from 8-13 February 2020 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This will be the first time that an Arab country will host the conference on cities and human settlements. WUF10 is convened by UN-Habitat in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Department of Municipalities and Transport, the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, General Secretariat of the Executive Council, and the ultra-modern Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.
The theme of the Tenth Session is Cities of Opportunities: Connecting Culture and Innovation.
IDMC's urban researcher Scott Lloyd will be joining three panels to speak about urban displacement and innovative solutions to displacement in cities. Find more information here.
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Events
January 2020
19 - 21 January, Cairo, Egypt
The International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS) is a unique global platform devoted to improving data on migration in all its dimensions. The first meeting of the IFMS in Paris, France, from 15 - 16 January 2018, featured 240 speakers and over 350 participants from 90 countries, representing national statistic offices, international organisations, non-governmental organisations and academia.
The second edition of the IFMS will be hosted by the African Union (AU) and the Egyptian Government, which currently chairs the AU, in Cairo, Egypt. The Forum will be supported by a Programme Committee of scientific experts, drawn from all major regions in the world, as well as a local organising committee to help with logistics.
Like the IFMS in 2018, IFMS 2020 will provide a place for sharing innovative approaches to filling data gaps in the measurement of migration and migration-related topics, such as local integration and development impacts. Given that migrants often face limited access to healthcare, education, justice, labour protections and other services, the IFMS 2020 will specifically address disaggregation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets by migratory status (SDG 17.16).
The 2020 Forum will focus on six themes:
- Strengthening data for policy
- Capacity development and financing
- Data collection and innovation
- Measuring progress on the SDGs and other global commitments
- Cooperation and data governance
- Improving availability of data on migrants in vulnerable situations
IDMC's head of data and analyis, Justin Ginnetti, and head of policy and research Bina Desai, will be joining five panels to speak about climate change, children in displacement, data challenges and solutions, innovative monitoring tools, and more. Find out more here.
Cairo, Egypt
Publications
January 2020
A very quick look at the year 2019 for the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. It was another year in which tens of millions of people were displaced by conflict and disaster: IDMC’s first task is to assemble and re-present that information. But it was also the year in which the world’s authoritative source of data and analysis on internal displacement strengthened its base; further raised its profile; developed new and ongoing approaches and research, partners and donors; and pointed the way to the future in giving country-level support to find and implement solutions to prevent and respond to internal displacement. Here are the highlights, ‘at a glance’.
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IDMC's 2019: A year in review
2019 has seen tens of millions of people newly displaced within their own countries. At the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, we have reported new cases of conflict-related displacement in some 70 countries, and disaster-related displacement in 140.
- Read more about IDMC's 2019: A year in review
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Publications
January 2020
This strategy describes the approach IDMC has developed to monitoring cross-border displacement associated with conflict, and addresses some of the main challenges inherent in the exercise. We committed to developing a more systematic approach to understanding the entire displacement continuum in 2017 by expanding our monitoring and research efforts to analyse the relationship between internal, cross-border and return movements.
Several questions need to be answered if governments, policymakers, humanitarian and development agencies and others are to understand the triggers and drivers of people’s movements within and across borders, their motivations and their living conditions in places of displacement and return.
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Publications
January 2020
This paper describes the methodology IDMC is developing in collaboration with its partners to monitor displacement associated with drought and addresses some of the main challenges inherent in the exercise. It is based on the collection of qualitative and quantitative data and three levels of analysis and builds upon existing good data-gathering practices.
The aim is to increase confidence in displacement estimates by way of a more robust, coordinated and data-driven process of verification. The approach also identifies areas in which the monitoring of displacement can help to improve the analysis and forecasting of other related phenomena such as food production and food insecurity.
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