The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) are organizing the second International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS), in Cairo, Egypt, 20-21 January 2020. The Forum will be hosted by the Egyptian Government, which currently chairs the African Union (AU), under the auspices of the AU.
The second IFMS will bring together expertise from a wide range of disciplines – such as statistics, economics, demography, sociology, geospatial science, and information technology – to improve the collection and analysis of migration data worldwide. Two days of plenaries and parallel events will explore innovative ways to measure population mobility and to generate timely statistics, by bringing together a broad range of participants to share and to discuss new data initiatives and examples of success in the field of migration data.
The Forum will be organized around the following six themes:
1. Strengthening data for policy
2. Data collection and innovation
3. Cooperation and data governance
4. Capacity development and financing
5. Measuring progress on the SDGs and other global commitments
6. Improving the availability of data on migrants in vulnerable situations
Call for papers and parallel sessions
The IFMS will include between parallel sessions, in addition to plenary sessions with high-level experts. Organizers encourage you to submit proposals that fit within the above themes to:
• Organize a parallel session as an individual expert, institution, or in partnership with others;
• Submit a paper or a report to be incorporated into a workshop/panel.
You will be required to submit the abstract of your paper (or a short description of your proposed parallel session), as well as the CV of lead author(s) (or session organizer for parallel sessions). In case you propose a parallel session, you will also be asked to list all panel speakers, and clarify if any of them are interested in applying for a travel grant. For inquiries please write to IFMS2020@iom.int.
For more information, visit https://gmdac.iom.int/iom-oecd-undesa-organise-second-international-forum-migration-statistics