The GDI aims to become the IOM and UN system’s reference point on migration and human mobility data and statistics, supporting countries to produce high-quality data and policy evidence on all forms of human mobility along the humanitarian-development-peace continuum. [...] Finally, IOM’s position within the United Nations system, including as Coordinator of the United Nations Network on Migration, allows the GDI to build on system-wide data processes and take a lead role in knowledge management, in particular in the context of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). [...] Through activities such as the regular organization of an African school of migration statistics (3 editions in 2020—2022), a monthly webinar series on a variety of migration topics, and the preparation of the first Africa Migration Data Profile (now being finalized), the AMDN seeks to encourage the sharing of good data practices among its members and improve coordination of migration data initiat. [...] For example, DTM co-leads the Expert Group on Refugee, IDP and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS) and is involved in the Joint Intersectoral Analysis Framework (JIAF), Data Responsibility Working Group, (DRWG), - DSID group for the Secretary-General's Action Agenda on Internal Displacement, and Data and Knowledge Working Group (DKWG) in the context of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD). [...] Further, in 2020, IOM through its leadership with the Data Science and Ethics Group (DSEG), published its ‘Framework for the ethical use of advanced data science methods in the Humanitarian Sector’; the interactive version of the framework was selected as a finalist at the 2021 AidEx Humanitarian Innovation of the Year Award.
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