Publications

July 2019

The exact number of children living in internal displacement worldwide is unknown, but estimated at over 17 million worldwide as a result of conflict and violence, with millions more as a result of disasters. Too many internally displaced children grow up deprived of an education and the long-term opportunities it affords. Access to quality inclusive education brings significant economic, social and health benefits to displaced and host communities alike.

Ensuring access to national education systems for internally displaced children is vital, provided it is safe to do so. Far greater priority needs to be given, and efforts and investment devoted to minimising the disruption to education that internal displacement causes, while maximising the potential protection and other vital support that schools provide for their displaced pupils.

This policy brief, co-authored with UNICEF, explores the challenges that internally displaced children face accessing education and provides recommendations for governments, humanitarian and development actors to implement. 

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Children

Events

Submitted by IDMC-Frankie on Thu, 07/04/2019 - 12:13
July 2019

Wednesday 10 July

13.15 - 14.30

UNICEF House, 3 United Nations Plaza, New York

 

Please join us for the launch of two UNICEF & IDMC policy papers on internally displaced children: Equitable access to quality education for internally displaced children and Protecting and supporting internally displaced children in urban settings.

The exact number of children living in internal displacement worldwide is unknown, but estimated at over 17 million worldwide as a result of conflict and violence, with millions more as a result of disasters. Too many internally displaced children grow up deprived of an education and the long-term opportunities it affords. Access to quality inclusive education brings significant economic, social and health benefits to displaced and host communities alike.

This event will highlight tested and promising policy solutions to overcome the challenges faced by internally displaced children in accessing education, and by governments and their partners in minimising the disruption to education that results from displacement and maximising the protection and support that going to school can provide.

A light lunch will be served from 12.45.

Please RSVP to:

Laura Healy, UNICEF
lhealy@unicef.org 

Christelle Cazabat, IDMC
christelle.cazabat@idmc.ch  

Children

Events

Submitted by IDMC-Caressa on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 11:02
July 2019

IDPs and data: Evidence across the Displacement Continuum

3 July 2019, 13.30 - 15.30

Room 4, CICG, Geneva


IDMC is jointly organising a session at the 2019 UNHCR Annual Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), with UNHCR and JIPS. The Consultation is a unique event that provides an important forum for debate on global and regional themes and an opportunity to explore fresh collaboration on advocacy and operational issues. 

The 2019 Consultations will have three main components:

  • Data and evidence
  • The Global Refugee Forum
  • Regionalisation

This session will focus on specific challenges to obtaining reliable data and evidence in internal displacement situations, in line with the thematic priorities of the 2019 UNHCR-NGO Consultations. The session will highlight good practices to help overcome these challenges, and explore how NGOs and humanitarian and development actors can enhance their engagement to assist and support internally displaced people (IDPs).
 

Moderator
Ms. Sumbul Rizvi, Senior Advisor on Internal Displacement, UNHCR

Speakers
Dr. Fashid Farzan, Welthungerhilfe, Afghanistan
Mr. Dana Wso, Qandil Swedish Humanitarian Aid Organization, Iraq
Ms. Anna Geller, Danish Refugee Council, Protection Cluster Somalia

Intervention from Ismael Gamboa Ocampo, IDP youth delegate, Global Youth Advisory Council. 

International Conference Centre (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland
Data

Media Centre

Submitted by IDMC-Frankie on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 17:09
24 June 2019

Signing Ceremony


Monday 24 June, 2019, Doha, Qatar - Al Jazeera Media Network signs today a new partnership agreement with the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) to raise the voices of the millions of people displaced within their countries' borders due to conflict, violence and disasters. 

This partnership aims to increase journalists' awareness and coverage of the issue of internal displacement in the media and to tell the stories of the women, men and children displaced or at risk of becoming displaced in the future and to shine light on the humanitarian and development challenges of this global phenomenon.   

Dr. Mostefa Souag, Acting Director General of Al Jazeera Media Network, said: "We are honoured to be joining forces with IDMC and to bringing more attention to an issue which has not been given enough consideration in media. It is one way for us to be there with the people”

Together, Al Jazeera and IDMC will work towards enhancing dissemination of data, analysis and stories of IDPs and organise joint trainings and events to highlight the causes and impacts of this phenomenon to the international community. 

"This partnership is a huge step in IDMC's ability to mobilise more political support and commitment to this issue", said Alexandra Bilak, Director of IDMC. "By expanding our media outreach, we hope to keep the situation of IDPs high on the international agenda and to ensure that millions of vulnerable people get access to better protection and assistance in the future.” 

The signing ceremony took place on Monday 24th June 2019 at Al Jazeera Media Network’s headquarters in Doha, Qatar. 

Data
Training

Events

Submitted by IDMC-Caressa on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 11:50
June 2019

PROGRAMME 
 

First Session : Ceremony for the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding: 10:00 – 10:30AM

  • Welcoming speech by the Director of Al Jazeera Center for Public Liberties and Human Rights (AJCPLHR)
  • Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Al Jazeera Media Network (AJN) and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
  • Address by the Director General of Al Jazeera Network
  • Address by the Director of IDMC
  • Offering of the shield of Al Jazeera to the Director of IDMC
     

Second Session: Presentation of the key findings of the Global Report on Internal Displacement (2019) 10:30 – 12:00PM

  • Presentation of the report by the Director of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
  • Address by the Head of Corporate Governance Sector - Qatar Charity Association and by the Director of Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar
  • Discussion and Q&A with the audience


Notes on the Global Report:
IDMC’s flagship publication, the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID), is the world’s authoritative source of data and analysis on internal displacement in the context of armed conflict, violence and disasters. Each year the report offers new insights into this global phenomenon and presents the latest statistics, country and regional trends.

This year’s report focuses on the issue of urban internal displacement. Towns and cities are increasingly sought after as places of refuge by IDPs. Meanwhile, urban centres are also generating high numbers of new displacement every year. IDMC’s report examines the important role that local governments and municipalities can play in finding practical and sustainable solutions to this issue. The report also reaffirms the need to recognise internal displacement as one of the most pressing global challenges of our time.

Doha, Qatar
Conflict & Violence
Disasters
Urban Displacement

Events

Submitted by IDMC-Caressa on Wed, 06/05/2019 - 10:52
June 2019

Addressing internal displacement associated with disasters and conflict: Planning for the long haul

25 June 2019, 17.45 - 19.15 

Room XXII, Palais des Nations, Geneva


This year, IDMC jointly organised a side event at the UN Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) Humanitarian Affairs Segment (HAS) under the auspices of the GP20 Plan of Action for Advancing Prevention, Protection and Solutions for IDPs with our partners OCHA, UNHCR and the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs.
 
The HAS is a unique platform that brings together UN Member States, UN organisations, humanitarian and development partners, the private sector and affected communities. Each June, they discuss and agree on how to best tackle the most recent and pressing humanitarian concerns. One of the main themes of this HAS is better addressing the humanitarian impacts of disasters and climate change.

The side event explored the parallels and distinctions between internal displacement caused by conflict and disasters as well as good practices, challenges and opportunities in addressing these complex issues.

Event moderated by:
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Mr. Hansjoerg Strohmeyer, Chief Policy Branch


Keynote Speaker:
UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs
Ms. Cecilia Jimenez-Damary
 

Panelists:
Mission of Iraq to the United Nations in Geneva
Ms. Mayada Al-Karaghouli, Second Deputy Permanent Representative, Minister Plenipotentiary

European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
Monique Pariat, Director-General DG

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Bina Desai, Head of Policy and Research

Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement
Professor Walter Kälin. 


ECOSOC HAS Trade Fair 

Along with the formal programme and side events, OCHA is organising a trade fair to showcase the work of various organisations. IDMC will present our Internal Displacement Event Tagging Extraction and Clustering Tool (IDETECT) and our disaster displacement risk model. IDETECT is natural language processing and supervised machine learning tool which automates the monitoring of information on internal displacement. Our risk model enables public actors to anticipate, prevent and build resilience towards displacement associated with natural hazards. 
 

Find more information about this year's HAS here.

If you do not have a UN badge to access the Palais des Nations, please register with INDICO here. 

Geneva, Switzerland
Climate Change
Conflict & Violence
Disasters
Humanitarian
IDP Tools & Frameworks

Publications

June 2019

Internal displacement can affect the lives of people forced to leave their home because of conflict, violence, climate change or disasters, in many ways. Their housing, access to infrastructure and education, health, social life, security and environment change and often degrade. Displaced people often lose their livelihoods, as a result of being pushed away from their work place or source of income. Some experience months or years without the means to make a decent living.

Loss of livelihood can have repercussions on the ability of displaced people to meet their needs and disrupt access to services such as healthcare and education. It can also damage their social life and impact their mental health and wellbeing. IDMC studies have estimated internal displacement triggered by specific events in Nepal, Mexico and Cuba cost the three countries hundreds of millions of dollars. In an analysis of the economic impacts of internal displacement in eight countries, loss of livelihood was found to be the main financial burden, close to health and housing costs and far ahead of security and education costs.

These findings are concerning, because they are underestimates. They consider only the most direct consequences of internal displacement on the income of displaced people when they are unable to continue their previous activity. They do not take into account impacts on the host community or on the broader production system of the affected area. This paper, part of IDMC's thematic series "The ripple effect: economic impacts of internal displacement", presents a wider framework to evaluate the impacts of internal displacement on income in the host economy.
 

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Economic Impacts
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