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Research in UNHCR
Kimberly Roberson
UNHCR
International Conference on Asylum-Related Migration Research
May 2015
Role of Research – Evaluation and Policy Unit
• New Issues in Refugee Research• 278 papers since 1999
• Evaluations
• Publically available at Unhcr.org
Examining:• UNHCR policies and programme
interventions• Solutions, emergencies, refugee
youth, SGVB, external relations, and advisory functions
Observations
Information is power
Good information is hard
• Household Poverty (World Bank. WFP.
30 partners)
• Registration – individual data
• Joint IDP Profiling Service
• Statistics Norway – NRC – UNHCR
• Stanford, Humanitarian Innovation
Project (Oxford), Tufts, Brookings
• MED-HIMs
• UN Statistical Commission
• Innovation in sentiment analysis
Current ‘research like’ engagements
Operational Data Portals
Annual Statistics
Monthly Statistics
Data.unhcr.org
Popstats.unhcr.org
Current Situation
UnifiedApproach
OperationalStandards
StandardData Set
Generic Process
UNHCR’s approach to registration
The registration standards essentially define a process and a normative framework that ensures the rightinformation is collected at the righttime and in the right way to allow for status determination, planning of assistance and services, understanding needs and capacities, and working with partners.
They are applicable to registration irrespective of who is conducting it
Issues to be thought about
Ethical Issues of data collection
• Risk
• Proportionality
• Purpose
• Aggregation
• Changing relationship between
individual data and data capture with
‘big data’
How can qualitative data help solve data poverty?
Translation of evidence into policy
Empowering refugee communities to
research themselves and drive the
research agenda
Predictive models could look at modeling
needs and desires, and not just behavior
Mass movements and new data
collection methods
Data collaboration
Questions and discussion
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