Joint Data Center

Data activities

Data Collection and Surveys

JDC aims to foster and produce quality socioeconomic data and analysis to improve development policy and humanitarian response.

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Forced displacement during and after COVID-19 in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq

The primary objective is to predict and assess changes in the socioeconomic welfare of Syrian refugees during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, to enhance national policies and assist international aid organizations. A secondary objective is to lay the foundation for further collaboration between UNHCR and World Bank teams in the region.

Venezuelans in Chile, Colombia, Peru & Ecuador

This series of related projects collects and analyzes primary data on the well-being of Venezuelans Displaced Abroad (VDAs) in separate efforts in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, and uses a common instrument to collect data on receptivity toward VDAs among the national populations in those countries.

Displacement in Djibouti

This project aims to study mobile populations in Djibouti, including refugees, migrants, nomads and populations internally displaced populations due to climate change, and the sizeable “floating population” of long-term undocumented residents.

Refugees in rural Türkiye

A survey of approximately 6,000 Syrian workers in rural Türkiye will study their demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, migration and employment history and work preferences to inform the current situation and form the baseline of an evaluation of the effect that an agricultural work program has had on labor market outcomes, household expenditure and consumption, social cohesion and integration in host communities.

Internal Displacement in Honduras

The JDC will conduct annual survey and research in Honduras to improve data on IDPs, with the aim of producing updated estimates of population stocks, inflows, and outflows, and data on their living conditions and experiences and that of host communities. EGRISS will provide support to align these with the IRIS recommendations.

Refugees in Chad

This report analyzed data from the 2018-2019 Refugees and Host Communities Household Survey in Chad (RHCH) to inform the Government, the World Bank, UNHCR and other development and humanitarian organizations of policies and programs to benefit refugees and host communities.

Forced displacement in the Republic of Congo

This activity aims to evaluate improvements to education, healthcare, food consumption, savings, and livelihoods for both refugee and host communities in the Republic of Congo made by the the Lisungi Social Safety Nets Project.