On December 12-14 this year, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia hosted the Expert Group Meeting on Statistics “Fulfilling our mandate and looking to the future 2022: Meeting of the Expert Group on Refugee, Internally Displaced Persons and Stateless Persons Statistics (EGRISS)”.
The meeting was attended by more than 80 participants from 35 countries and international organizations, as well as from the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics, Head of the Department of Consolidation and Information Work - Khurshid Zhuraev and Deputy Head of the Department for Organizing and Conducting Census Processes - Sherzod Dusnaev.
The purpose of the meeting was to exchange experience between the countries participating in the Expert Group, review normative documents on statelessness statistics and develop international recommendations on refugee and IDP statistics, within the mandate of the EGRISS Expert Group valid until 2024.
At the meeting, the participating countries exchanged experience, received recommendations from experts in the field of statistics on refugees, IDPs and stateless persons, discussed existing problems and ways to solve them.
Goskomstat specialists were able to improve their knowledge and skills in this area, took part in the development of proposals for improving the methodology in the field of population census for refugees, IDPs and stateless persons, as well as presented the experience of preparing for the population census in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
At the meeting, the participating countries exchanged experience in the field of refugees, forced displacement and statelessness, discussed existing problems and ways to solve them.
At the end of the meeting, recommendations and proposals were developed for the collection of data on refugees, internally displaced persons and stateless persons.
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