Session 2: Debunking Data - Indicators and Methods

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), as co-chairs of the Data Knowledge Working Group of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD), are inviting you to the second session of its Triple-D (data, disasters, displacement) webinar series to identify key challenges in defining "environmental migrants", to discuss available data collection methodologies used to capture people displaced by disasters, and to explore useful indicators which could help in identifying populations who are more vulnerable in the context of disasters, climate change and environmental degradation. 

31 May 2022, 16.00-17.30 CET 

Watch the recording here.

Moderator: Nando Lewis, Displacement Tracking Matrix DTM) Associate, IOM London

Opening remarks: Atle Solberg, Head of Secretariat, Platfom on Disaster Displacement (PDD)

Speakers: 

• Dr. Alex de Sherbinin, Associate Director for Science Applications and Senior Research Scientist at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School, Columbia University
• Dr. Ingrid Boas, Associate Professor at the Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University
• Dr. Diogo Andreola Serraglio, Postdoctoral Guest Researcher at the German Development Institute and Global Focal Point of the South American Network for Environmental Migrations (RESAMA)
• Ivana Hajzmanova, Regional Coordinator for MENA/Sub-Saharan Africa, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)