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Irregular Migration and Food Security: A View from West Africa

How does food insecurity affect irregular migration, and what role can a needs-based humanitarian response play? A recent collaboration between IFPRI and the World Food Programme took a route-based approach to looking at irregular migration in West Africa—examining migrant origins, their transit experience, and the situation where their journey stalls or ends. The mixed method study includes case studies of the Ténéré desert crossing, across the south-central Sahara, for Malian and Libyan migrants. The resulting report and interactive website designed by MIT’s Civic Design Lab illustrate the migrant journey and associated risks as migrants make their way from West Africa

HuMEL: Data Quality Assessments

Join the HuMEL (Humanitarian Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning) peer community for a webinar on Data Quality Assessments (DQAs) in complex contexts. The conversation will center on defining roles and responsibilities around data collection and review, tools to support data validation, and lessons learned from implementers. During this event, we will hear from: Jennifer Majer, Senior Advisor for MEAL and Research at International Medical Corps, and Omar Makki, MEAL Officer at IMC - Lebanon, on IMC's new Routine DQA Guidelines and Toolkit and a few lessons learned from DQAs conducted in Lebanon; and Wilson Gu, MEAL Technical Advisor at Catholic Relief