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The Global IDP Database:challenging the information gap
After publishing the first volume of Internally Displaced People: A Global Survey in 1998, the Norwegian Refugee Council – through its Global IDP Project – was encouraged by the humanitarian community to continue the research process by establishing an online mechanism to improve the accessibility of information on internal displacement. The outcome was the launch of the Global IDP Database on the Internet in December 1999.
The backbone of the database has been a set of comprehensive online country profiles that provide users with both updated information and direct access to source documents. Initially, the database covered only the largest and most acute situations of internal displacement. ...
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