The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) was established in 1998 as part of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). Their work informs policy and operational decisions that improve the lives of the millions of people living in or at risk of internal displacement. Internal displacement is the forced movement of people within the country they live in.

Their work is produced through a detailed pipeline of steps:

1. Provide global displacement data by conflict, violence, disasters and development projects;
2. Complement this data with macroeconomic drivers and fundamentals; and then
3. Provide tailor-made advice and support to inform global, regional and national policy-making.

IDMC have a range of analytical tools at their disposal to help adjust for temporal and spatial scale of their reporting to inform operational and policy decision-making at different levels (local to global), and across different sectors. These tools are also implemented for different purposes, such as from prevention and risk reduction, to humanitarian programming, post-crisis recovery and sustainable development. These tools include:

• The Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID)
• Internal Displacement Updates (IDUs)
• Country pages
• Research papers
• Global Disaster Displacement Risk Platform
• Displacement Data Exploration Tool
• Internal Displacement Event Tagging and Clustering Tool (IDETECT)
• Satellite imagery analysis

Global monitoring is the core of IDMC’s work and is the foundation for all their underlying analysis and policy research. Data is collected and published on an online platform Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD), including age, sex and location of internally displaced people, as well as their shelter type and the duration of their displacement. This research has informed the development of global and regional-level policy agendas related to sustainable development, humanitarian reform, disaster reduction and climate change adaptation including:

• World Humanitarian Summit’s Agenda
• Paris Climate Change Agreement
• Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
• Sustainable Development Goals
• New Urban Agenda

To provide high-quality data, analysis and expertise on internal displacement with the aim of informing policy and operational decisions that can reduce the risk of future displacement and improve the lives of internally displaced people (IDP) worldwide.

The IDMC are entirely dependent on their funding partners in order to provide their global public good. Their donor partners include:

• Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NMFA)
• Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
• USAID/OFDA
• UK Department for International Development
• US Department of State
• Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
• Federal Foreign Office of Germany
• Liechtenstein
• Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

They encourage these partners to enter multi-year funding agreements when possible to support their financial requirements with sustained funding. More information about funding can be found here.