An estimated 48 percent of school-age refugee children are out of school—an estimated 77 percent of refugee children attend primary school, 31 percent of refugee youth attend secondary education, and just 3 percent are able to access tertiary opportunities (compared...
JDC Literature Review
Results for: Big Data
Mobile Phone Data for Children on the Move: Challenges and Opportunities
Reliable, timely and accessible data are essential for understanding how migration and forced displacement affect children, and for informing policies and programs to meet their needs. This chapter discusses opportunities for using mobile phone data to address gaps in...
Focused psychosocial interventions for children in low-resource humanitarian settings: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis
Randomized studies on the effectiveness of focused psychosocial support interventions for children exposed to traumatic events in humanitarian settings in low-income countries have generated conflicting results. Evaluations of school-based interventions have found...
Big Data for Sampling Design: The Venezuelan Migration Crisis in Ecuador
Even though Ecuador has a reliable and up-to-date sampling frame for the national census, the lack of information on the numbers of Venezuelans displaced in Ecuador and their locations in the country posed challenges for the design and implementation of the Human...
Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) 2020
The 2020 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) presents global figures for internal displacement in 2019. The report includes the following key statistics on internal displacement due to conflict and violence: An estimated 45.7 million people were internally...
Migration in Libya: A Spatial Network Analysis
Libya is both a transit hub for legal and illegal migration as well as a destination country for international migrants, including refugees. This paper provides an empirical assessment of migration patterns to, within, and from Libya during 2017 and 2018. The analysis...