Achievements to date on the IDP Profiling Process

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Achievements to date on the IDP Profiling Process

• UNFPA
• UNHCR
• Brussels IDP Profiling Workshop
• 22 23 March 2007

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Summary of Achievements

• Standard setting
• Reinforcing networks
• Field support/ Capacity building
• Fundraising
• Next key activities

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Standard setting

• Draft IDP Profiling Guidelines process
• Steering Group of the IDP Profiling Guidelines
  process
• Camp Management Toolkit revision (ongoing)
• Drafting of the IDP Protection Handbook (ongoing)

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Reinforcing networks

• Interagency Technical Workshop on IDP Profiling,
  Nairobi October 2006
• Participated by IOM, NRC, OCHA, WFP, UNHCR
• Joint UNFPA/ UNHCR Workshop Collaboration on
  Demographic Data Collection in Emergencies/ IDP
  Situations February 2007

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Key recommendations from the Interagency
Technical Workshop on IDP Profiling

• Nairobi October 2006

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Key recommendationsStandard setting on
profiling policy

• Strengthening interagency approach on profiling
• Validate the Guidelines on IDP Profiling/ policy
  questions surrounding IDP profiling
• Create a checklist of protection consideration
• Establish guideline on when to register/ how to
  register IDPs for protection purposes
• Integrate profiling guidelines in HC trainings
• Formalise the community of practitioners or
  resource persons dealing with profiling issues.
• Ensure profiling is an integral part of local
  Protection Cluster
• Create a steering group on IDP profiling.

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Key recommendationsSetting technical standards
on profiling

• Standard setting for minimum data in IDP
  registration for assistance delivery
• Development of operational standards e.g.
  creation of a decision tree (scenario/ context
  based) to chose methodologies.
• Development of standard data sets as per
  operational objectives e.g. definition of core
  data

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Conclusions of the Joint UNFPA/UNHCR Workshop

• Collaboration on Demographic Data Collection
• February 2007

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Partnership

• Re-issuance of the existing MOU from 1995 to
  further improve on data issues
• Dissemination of the MOU to all offices to ensure
  that it becomes a point of reference
• To conduct joint pilot projects in the field
• Further cooperation on standard setting in
  demographic data issues
• Joint work on indicators

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Collaboration in the context of IASC and the
Cluster Approach

• Explore institutionalisation of an IDP
  demographic methodology group
• Start collaboration in the Protection Cluster,
  specifically in the area of registration, data
  profiling, and statistical reporting
• Build joint capacity through a secondment of 1
  UNFPA staff to support standard setting in data
  quality issues under the Protection Cluster
• Explore the possibility of establishing a
  service for humanitarian community on data in
  emergencies through establishing rapid deployment
  scheme (StatCap) and data provision

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Field support/ Capacity Building

• Somalia (Aug06) Operational Data Manager for
  population tracking
• Myanmar (Nov06) Operational Data Manager
• Cote dIvoire (Jan07) Information Manager for
  IDP Profiling Desk Review
• Sri Lanka (Feb07) Registration Officer for IDP
  registration in Batticaloa Trincomalee
  Districts
• Chad (Mar07) Joint UNFPA/ UNHCR/ IFORD mission
  for IDP profiling survey
• Sudan (Mar07) NRC Urban Displacement Study
• Camp Management Training (ongoing)

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Fundraising

• 2007 Global Cluster Appeal
• Jointly appealed by NRC/ IDMC, UNFPA, UNHCR
• Activities planned both under Protection Cluster
  and Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM)
  Cluster

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Next key activities in 2007
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