The OSCE-IOM project on
“Harmonized data collection as sound
basis for policy making“
Presentation by
Amaia Sotes Linares-Rivas,
Economic Affairs Officer, OCEEA
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Background – The current situation
 Governments‘ decisions based on scarce data
 Collection of data often not considered as a long-term
investment by Governments
 Need to improve national systems‘ ability to collect and
store migration statistics
 OSCE pS acknowledge the need to share information
between national stake holders.
Ministerial Council Decision 5/09 on
Migration Management
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Background- Barriers to change the
current situation
 Predominance of National Reality over International
Standards; Different data needs at national and
international levels
 Incomparability of national definitions and data
collection practices
 Perceived sensitivity of migration data, power of
information and necessity for ensuring data protection
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Background - Specific challenges
in the CIS Region
 Different levels of development in states’ institutions and
infrastructures
 Different practices of data collection in different sets of
data collected
 Building further trust among governments in the region
 Need for enhanced coordination at the national level
 Broad variation in national capacities (both financial and
expertise)
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Background: The Role of the OSCE
 Ministerial Council Decision 5/09 on Migration
Management - The OSCE Ministerial Council encourages the OSCE
pS to continue to work on migration management by “improving the
collection of comparable data on migration, in order to facilitate
dialogue and exchange of best practices at the OSCE Level”.
 OSCE: political organization
well placed to:
 provide a regional platform for discussion, dialogue, and
exchange of best practices
 encourage migration data sharing
 secure political will amongst pS, ministries, agencies
governments and other institutions involved in data collection
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The Role of the OSCE:
 OSCE: political organization
well placed to:
 provide a regional platform for discussion, continued
dialogue, and exchange of best practices on how to
strengthen cooperation among States
 encourage migration data sharing among involved parties
 First indispensable condition to start a migration data
harmonising and collection process in the CIS region: political will
 Different ministries, agencies governments and other
relevant institutions involved in the data collection process
need to cooperate
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THE OSCE & THE IOM
join forces
on a project sponsored by
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Introduction to the Project
Who?
OSCE & IOM
UNECE, ILO, UN Population Division, UNFPA
Where?
KAZ, KYR, TAJ, RF
When?
Country Trips to
Central Asia
Jan-11
Preparations
May-11
Final Seminar Editing
Translation into English in Moscow
printing
Sep-11
Jan-12
May-12
Country reports and template +
Feedback collection
Sep-12
Jan-13
May-13
Sep-13
Closing
Feedback collection of the
from other IIOO
project
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Content
- Assess
availability data
- Evaluate
capacity for
data collection
Data USERS
Policy makers,
parliamentarians, MFA,
HSE Statistician/DemographerMoL, other relevant
IOM Migration Expert
government officials
using migration data
OSCE representative
- Identify gaps
and solutions
Establish a harmonised data collection
process in the EurAsEc region
Data
PRODUCERS
National statistical
offices, migration
service, migration
agencies, police, border
guards, statistical
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services, others.
Specific activities and Outputs
Analyze gathered data and
information and discuss it in
meetings with relevant stakeholders
Information
gathering:
 Desk analysis
 Questionnaires
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Presentation of the final
handbook in the Vienna
Hofburg
(e-mail)
Share the findings and
discuss recommendations
in a seminar/meeting with:
 Ministries / Agencies
 Key stakeholders
Based on the collected
information and meetings produce:
 4 country reports
 Template
 Recommendations
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 Synthesis table
HANDBOOK
Thank you very much for your
attention!
Contact: [email protected]
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