International Forum for Migration Statistics 2025

Measuring progress towards solutions to internally displaced persons in Colombia and Somalia, a peer-exchange conversation

Jun 18, 2025 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Ground Floor & Floors 3-5, Niagra Building

Description

The number of internally displaced persons (IDP) in the world keeps rising. The causes of human mobility become more complex as compounding risk related to climate change and conflict collide in many countries. Increasingly, global initiatives contribute to raising awareness around effective coordination at country, regional and international level to improve evidence to inform solution to internal displacement. The UN Secretary General’s Action Agenda on Internal Displacement, launched in 2022, has mobilised resources in countries affected by conflict and disasters to build the capacity of governments to monitor solutions to IDPs in coordination with the UN Country Teams. In 2024, supported by the Internal Displacement Solutions Fund (IDSF), Colombia and Somalia embarked on a joint UN-government journey to strengthen their national IDP data systems. For this session, the government of Colombia and the government of Somalia, jointly with the UN Development Programme in Colombia, the International Organization for Migration in Somalia and the Joint IDP Profiling Service, will share the results of the IDSF project in a comparative approach. The session will draw lessons learned and persisting challenges in the process of refining methodologies to measure progress towards solutions to IDPs from a national perspective and the linkages to statistical inclusion of IDPs in National Statistical Systems. Moderator: Aina Helen Saetre, Statistics and Data Analyst, Statistical Partnerships Team Lead, UNHCR Speakers: - Oscar Rico, Programme Manager, JIPS - Zahra Abdi, Director General, National Centre for Rural Development and Durable Solutions, Federal Government of Somalia - Laura Cardoza, Deputy Director of Human Rights and Peace Building, National Planning Department, Colombia - Benjamin Townsend, Programme Manager, Data for Solutions, IOM Somalia