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Filippo Grandi: “Data is at the heart good decision-making”
On 12 December 2016, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, visited Diffa region in Niger. Here, the forcibly displaced population is spread across more than 100 sites in a stretch of arable land along the border with Nigeria. He used the opportunity to highlight the importance of data in protecting and assisting more than 250,000 persons (refugees, IDPs, and Niger nationals that returned from Nigeria as a result of conflict).
“Throughout my visit, our team in Diffa provided me with a wide range of information on each site we passed or visited. In Diffa town, a Data Centre on Forced Displacement was established in 2013, funded by UNHCR, and implemented by our partner REACH.
Data is at the heart of good decision-making. Only with accurate information can we make the right decisions on how to support... |
