{"id":1343,"date":"2018-10-01T08:22:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T08:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2018-10-01T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:40:10","slug":"delegation-visit-un-city-joint-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/delegation-visit-un-city-joint-data-center\/","title":{"rendered":"UN City welcomes officials to discuss the Joint Data Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1345\" style=\"width: 830px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1345\" class=\" wp-image-1345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/10\/IMG_0782-1-720x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/10\/IMG_0782-1-720x540.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/10\/IMG_0782-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/10\/IMG_0782-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/10\/IMG_0782-1-1360x1020.jpg 1360w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/10\/IMG_0782-1-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2018\/10\/IMG_0782-1-1080x810.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The delegation with from left to right: Martin Christensson (UN Building Administration), J\u00f8rgen Brisson (UN Common Services), Luan Osmani (UNHCR), Iona Lee (WB), Ewen Macleod (UNHCR), Xavier Devictor (WB), Thomas Thomsen (MFA), Jens Ole Back Hansen (Danida MFA) &#8211; UNHCR C.Arnaud<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On 28 September,\u00a0a delegation comprised of the World Bank Group, UNHCR and the Government of Denmark representatives visited UN City to discuss the establishment of a Joint Data Centre on forced displacement.<\/p>\n<p>The new centre will greatly improve statistics on refugees, other displaced people and host communities by enabling a better informed and more sustainable response to forced displacement, underpinning a coordinated humanitarian-development approach.<\/p>\n<p>With the support of the Government of Denmark, the operationalization of this innovative initiative is well underway and the center should start its activities by the first quarter of 2019 with around 10 highly qualified staff coming on board to work as statisticians, economists and data experts.<\/p>\n<p>Systematically making data available will allow for a dramatic scaling up of such critical analytical work, which is essential as the World Bank Group and UNHCR collaborate to support both refugees and host communities. 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