Sustaining an essential dataset
The global baseline on internal displacement
To ensure IDPs are able to overcome their vulnerabilities, and to prevent new, repeated and protracted displace-ment, governments need robust data on the scale, scope and impacts of the phenomenon. They need to understand all of its stages and dimensions, regardless of where peo-ple are on its trajectory. Before displacement happens, this includes their level of risk based on their exposure and vulnerability to different hazards, and the cost/benefit of investments to prevent rather than respond to it. While it happens, it includes knowing where, at what scale, the dynamics, who is affected and their characteristics. After it has happened, it includes the longer-term effects and the direct and indirect costs involved.
