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Capacity Building and Innovative Practices
Improving Data on International Migration towards Agenda 2030 and the Global Compact on Migration
Akanni Akinyemi
Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Guiding Questions:
What are the greatest migration data capacity-building needs?
What innovative measures have been taken to build migration data capacities?
How to ensure that efforts to improve data on development and migration are aligned?
Migration Data: West Africa
Census Migration stocksEvery 10 years!!!Nigeria-1991, 2016
limited by 1. the number of
questions2. Consistency of
variable: citizenship or birth
1. Timeliness,2. limited
questions, 3. expensive, 4. Availability-IPUMS 5. Skills
Administrative Data 38-Nigeria, 19- Ghana,
1. Capacity of agencies
2. Evidence
1. Unprocessed (Migration cards)
2. Overlapping3. Standardization
and Methods4. Lack of
harmonized template
Specialized Surveys/ Research
Very few, localized studies
1. Fund driving2. “interpretation”
Funding
Data Harmonization
• Within Countries: No Harmonization
Nigeria and Ghana within the last few years-Technical Working Group
Migration policy
Migration Profile
Migration Management Strategy
Migration-related Data across Agencies/Institutions
Data Category Variable Stakeholder InstitutionNo. of
Agencies
Cross-Border Migrants
Migrant Stock Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)2
Migrant Flow Ghana Immigration Service (GIS)
DiasporaGhanaians’ living abroad
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration
1
Emigrants
Emigrant Workers
Ghana Immigration Service (GIS)
4
Labour Department
Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Emigrant Students
Ghana Immigration Service (GIS)
Ministry of Education
Forced Migrants Refugees Ghana Refugee Board 1
IDPs --
Irregular MigrantsTrafficked Persons
Anti-Trafficking Unit of Ghana Police
1
Addressing the issues
• Map migration data across agencies
• Capacity development in data management and reporting
Gaps in Data/ CAPACITY
• Develop a common data template for data sharing Coordination and
synergy
• Standardization of data
• Feedback to national Data frameworkQuality
Assurance
Case study of Ghana
ECOWAS EXPERIENCE
• Across ECOWAS Different templates across agencies
• Agency either not collecting, lack of capacity to collect
• Limited research funding
Migration Cards-Embarkation/Disembarkation Cards
Ghana Nigeria S.Leone Gambia Liberia
Sex + - - - +Name of Vessel + + - - +Purpose/Nature of Travel + - + + +Declaration of foreign
currencies+ - - - -
Number of Accompanists - - + + -Duration of stay + - + + +(+) information asked,
(-) represents information not asked.
Migration Cards-Embarkation/Disembarkation Cards
• Nigeria just concluded scanning and analysis of 2010-2014
• Ghana is working on scanning of over 10 years backlogs
• Millions unprocessed cards in Sierra Leone, Gambia and Liberia
Innovative Measures
Within ECOWAS, only Nigeria, Ghana have reports on capacity assessment of government agencies with mandate on migration related issues.
Both countries have developed migration data management strategy framework with formation of National TWG drawn from MDAs.
The Consortium of ECOWAS, IOM, ILO, ICMPD conducted a baseline on Migration Data Management across ECOWAS in 2014.
Discussion…Across many Africa countries, particularly within ECOWAS, there is a very weak capacity to produce relevant data. Capacity building needs will include:
Strengthening of national agencies and ministries with migration related mandates to collect data.
Migration data harmonization at national levels.
Support to academic and research institutions in capacity development for migration studies. The economic returns from fundamental research can be considerable, far in excess of the initial costs of the research.
Regional data harmonization
Aligning Efforts to Improve Data on Migration and Development
Development of regional and national template for capacity development.
Engagement and research support to academic and research centres in migration studies
Development of national and regional template for migration indicators.
Key Message
• Need to move resources to support:
National Agencies
Research and Academic Units
Regional efforts and Institutiona