Millions of people have been displaced within Somalia in recent and the country also hosts 38,463 refugees or asylum-seekers. The Somalia Displacement Phone Survey is the first to offer comparable statistics for refugees, refugee returnees and other forcibly displaced people. More than 90 percent of households reported having experienced some form of shock in the six months preceding the survey, including an unprecedented drought, severe flooding, and cycles of violence.
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JDC Newsletter, March 2024
Amid conflict, insecurity, and climate change, East African countries are turning to data for solutionsFew countries have been more generous towards refugees than Uganda. Here, refugees have freedom of movement, the right to work and access to basic services. Uganda...
JDC Strategy for 2021 – 2023
When the JDC was established in 2019, expectations were high. Our aim was that, by the end of 2023, there will have been a step-change in the quantity, quality, availability, and use of socioeconomic data and evidence on those affected by forced displacement. The...
JDC Newsletter, February 2024
If the right policies are in place, Venezuelans can contribute a lot – socially and economically. Governments in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region estimate that around 7.7 million Venezuelans live outside their country. A single figure cannot convey the...
JDC Annual Reports
The JDC was established in 2019 to help change the collective approach to forced displacement to a bigger and broader one that lasts longer, mathcing the scale of the challenge. This equires a different model, one that recognizes protracted displacement as part of an...
How Open Data Can Connect Humanitarian and Development Action in Fragile Contexts
How can development actors, including governments and policy-makers, partner with humanitarian organizations on data towards long-term outcomes, starting from the first days of an emergency response? And how can development and humanitarian actors consolidate...
Refugees and migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean benefit local economies, new studies show
Panama City and Washington DC, 26 February 2024 – Forcibly displaced people in Latin America and the Caribbean can contribute significantly to the economies where they live if they have the opportunity, according to two new studies released today by the World Bank...
Venezuelans in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
Español Over the past decade, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has experienced of one of the largest mass human movements in the world. The exodus from Venezuela is the largest-ever displacement crisis in the Americas, with an estimated 7.7 million Venezuelan...
Forced displacement & migration in Latin America and the Caribbean
Forced displacement & migration in Latin America and the Caribbean Hosted by the Inter American Development Bank, this event will launch two important publications: Socio-Economic Integration of Forcibly Displaced Populations in Latin America and the Caribbean A...
How data can inform policy to address challenges faced by internally displaced people in the Central African Republic
By Harriet Mugera, Gervais Chamberlin Yama, and Jonathan LainThis article was first published on the Africa can end poverty Blog Cassava producer, Zerkongo, Central African Republic. Credit: Vincent Tremeau / World Bank Decades of division and conflict have left the...