The right policy can foster social cohesion between host communities and forcibly displaced people While we often hear about the economic opportunities and challenges that come with displacement, of equal importance is the social environment that forcibly displaced...
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JDC Newsletter, September 2024
Partnerships, data and policies are needed to address forced displacementLast week, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, there wasn’t a single person present who didn’t feel the weight of the challenge posed by forced displacement. More than one presenter referred to the...
JDC Newsletter, August 2024
Data, Dialogue and Development:The Crucial Role of Data in Addressing Forced Displacement in West and Central Africa.By Abdouraouf Gnon-Konde, Director of the Regional Bureau of UNHCR for West and Central Africa Next month, I will speak at the Joint Data Center’s 3rd...
JDC Newsletter, July 2024
Data rich and data poor - Within the same region, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are vastly different data contextsData on forced displacement in Bangladesh and Afghanistan typifies the characteristics of forced displacement data globally. Bangladesh hosts a large refugee...
JDC Newsletter, June 2024
Numbers of forcibly displaced are sky rocketing, who are the people behind the statistics?By the end of 2023, an estimated 117.3 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced – a number that has risen every year for the last twelve. Six months later, by June 2024,...
JDC Newsletter, May 2024
Making IDPs visible in national statistics: a step towards sustainable solutions That more than 100 million people around the globe are forcibly displaced is a known fact. What is often overlooked is that the vast majority of them are Internally Displaced People...
JDC Newsletter, April 2024
Celebrating and reflecting on the year past In April, millions of people across the world observed their major religious festivals – Eid al-Fitr and Easter. Both celebrations mark the end of a period of abstinence or fasting, which is also a time for reflection. The...
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 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 Newsletter, November 2023
Displacement and poverty – The consequences of conflict in the Central African RepublicConflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) has a long history. Although it escalated dramatically in 2012, it has abated since then. But it’s still horrific. People have been...