Solutions and Mobility Index

Planning session for IOM Papua New Guinea

Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM)

International Organization for Migration | IOM. February, 2023
Session Objectives
Other Learning Events
o Develop a common understanding of what is the Solutions
and Mobility Index, its purpose and uses.

o Identify possible country applications and use.

o Next steps for IOM Papua New Guinea SMI

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Agenda Other Learning Events
Part 1:
• Introduction to SMI purpose
and objectives
• Building blocks of SMI
exercise design
• Solutions and Mobility
Indicators Explained
• Data collection and analysis
methodology
• Examples of applied SMI
• Q&A
Part 2:
• Identifying existing data
collection exercises to
inform SMI
• Brainstorm possible
comparable indicators
• Identify next steps and way
forward for the country
team
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 Part 1:

• Introduction to SMI ​
• Building blocks of SMI exercise design
• Solutions and Mobility Index Indicators Explained
• Data collection and analysis methodology
•Q&A
•Recommended Solutions and Mobility Indicators ​
•Data collection and analysis methodology ​
•Q & A
What is the SMI?
• The Stability Index is a collection
of data collection exercises based
on composite indicators
linking humanitarian response and
transition, recovery and
development programming,
thereby contributing to the
Humanitarian-Development-
Peace-Nexus.

• It captures key factors which

contribute to a location’s
stability and resilience, or
likelihood of fostering returns
including security, access to
services, access to livelihoods,
social cohesion and availability of
dispute resolution mechanisms.

• Each assessed location is given a ‘

Score’ to summarize its level of
Background of Other
SMI Learning Events
 In September 2021, the SMI work was cited in IOM’s Internal Displacement Data Strategy, It falls
directly under Pillar 3 of IOM's Internal Displacement Strategy, namely Strategic Priority 3.2
Fragility, Solutions and Mobility.
‘In tandem with its emphasis on producing actionable data for humanitarian assistance and protection (see SP 1.2), IOM will
further support with data initiatives around fragility, solutions and mobility. Data and evidence for policy support to national
stakeholders as well as development and peace actors more broadly, will require IOM to optimize its internal displacement data
activities and analysis frameworks.’

• In March 2022, DDG Daniels officially launched IOM’s Solutions and Mobility Index at the World
Bank’s Fragility Forum. This event showcased the newly developed Stability Index in Mozambique.

SMI is coordinated between IOM’s Community Stabilisation Unit (CSU), Displacement Tracking
Matrix (DTM) and Transition, Recovery and Development (TRD) Unit . Spanning the continuum of
IOMs Humanitarian, Peace and Development work.

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Key Clarifications on the SMI
Broad aims
1. As a new component it aims to consolidate and create a common language/understanding of
DTM’s existing work on durable solutions.
2. Through this common understanding, SMI aims to expand and build on DTM’s work on fragility,
durable solutions, returns, intentions

Emphasizes Flexibility
• Catered to the unique needs of local context, and differ in timelines, tools, and metrics used.
• Due to contextual variations and different phases of SMI implementations, it is important to note
that the results and findings between deployments may not be directly comparable, although some
multi-country activities such as Lake Chad Basin were.

Solutions and Mobility Index at the country level

Some Uses of the SMI
• Identify pockets of stability and high
mobility and conditions conducive for
strengthened resilience and Durable Solutions.
Social • Provide evidence-based analysis to better
Safety cohesion capture opportunities to strengthen seeds of
and
security
stability.
• Inform tailored interventions in response to
Services local initiatives. Across IOM programme areas.
and • Localized projects: facilitate the development of
livelihood area-specific projects based on infrastructure
assessments and influential factors identified by the
SMI.
• Regional or cluster analysis: Cluster analysis may
offer a more detailed approach to stability
Example: Stability programming.
• Trends analysis: Regular rounds of data collection
Index means the evolutions of a location’s stability can be
observed over time.
STEPS to effectively
Otherapply SMI Events
Learning

Recognize it as a full 1. Identify Information Needs – Gaps of existing

assessments?
data collection 2. What is the added value of SMI
lifecycle.​ implementation?
• Methods 3. How can existing DTM components contribute
to SMI? (mobility tracking/ location
development assessment/ surveys)
process, testing.​ 4. What population groups and thematic areas of
• Analysis, interest.
5. Consider local knowledge and context in
dissemination and design
use. 6. Resources (human/ financial)
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Building Blocks Other
of SMILearning
ExerciseEvents
Design

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 What does it look like in practice?
•Recommended Solutions and Mobility Indicators ​
•Data collection and analysis methodology ​
•Q & A
 Global Summary of Current Implementations of the SMI

Country ​ Name of SMI product Assessment Type Active Since (Start Date)

Cameroon​ Stability Index ​ KI

Chad​ Stability Index ​ KI
Iraq​ Returns Index ​ KI
Mali​ Stability Index ​ KI
Mozambique​ Stability Index ​ KI
Niger​ Stability Index ​ ​KI
Nigeria​ Stability Index ​ KI
Community And Stabilisation
Somalia​ KI and HH
Index​
Returns and Reintegration Inde
South Sudan​ KI and HH
x​
Haiti Stability Index KI
 Other
Some examples of DTMLearning Events
Solutions work

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Lake Chad Basin Stability
Community Stabilization Index (COSI)
• COSI: Addressing knowledge gaps in newly recovered areas
• Development, Methodology, Outputs
• Informing program design and collaboration with UNSOM
Lower Shabelle
Clan Dynamics

Operation Badbaado
2019 - Present
What does stabilization mean to communities?
• Weighted variables
• Sub-index themes
• COSI Interactive Dashboard
• Location Profiles
Cross-Clan Collaboration in the Canal Zone

• Major exceptions to the

static nature of most natural
resources are water and
livestock, the lifelines of
cultivators and pastoralists.

• Incentivize a shift away

from easy rents to leverage
land and water management
into more sustainable,
equitable, and productive
revenue streams.
COSI & Community-led Mobilizations
• IOM/UNEP/UNSOM collaboration
• Environmental peacebuilding in Hiraan
• Integrated NRM packages in Mataban
• Reconciliation and rangeland governance
Some examples of
Thematic Area and
Indicator Categories

1.Social Cohesion
2.Safety & Security
3. Access to Services & Infrastructure​​
4. Demographic and Movement Trends​​
5. Perceptions of Stability
 Thematic Areas and sub-indicators
Other Learning Events
(examples) 3.Access to Services & Infrastructure​​
1.Social Cohesion​​
• Number of land use incidents reported
• Minority/ tribal representation in leadership
structure
• Participation in local governance.
• Disaggregated unemployment rates
2. Safety & Security​​
• Functioning legal system
• Freedom of movement
• Access to identity documentation
• Local crime trends/ security incidents
• Police presence, availability of child and women
protective services
• % of population with access to primary
education​
• % of population with access to primary
medical services​
​
4.Demographic and Movement Trends​​
• Disaggregated (by geography)return trends​
• IDP figures​
• Migrant flows, areas with frequent migrant
flows. ​
• Comparisons between number of people
leaving/ staying.
5.Perceptions of Stability
• Feeling of Stability in the Locality
• Ability to Continue Living in Locality
• Changes in Perception in the Last 6
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 Other
Data Collection and Learning
Analysis Events
Methodology

Data collection is Context Specific
• Can be a custom tool, or available data
can be used to create a comparable
Index.
• Simple Scoring
• Example:
• Lake Chad Basin designed and
used a new tool that was based on
perceptions
• Iraq used available figures on
return and displacement.
• Somalia used a highly customized
and localized perception tool.
Analysis dependent on the design but might
include:
• Factor analysis
• Regression analysis
• Principle component analysis
• Various spatial analytical techniques
• Example:
• Lake Chad Basin designed and used a new
tool that was based on perceptions, using
principal component analysis (PCA)
• Iraq used available figures on return and
displacement.

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Global/ regional/Other Learning
country Events
capacities
 Identifying country programme information gaps and needs
 Capacity to identify and/ or develop and endorse clear, and contextually appropriate definitions and
methods on subject-matter per programme information needs.
 Method Design (not limited to):
 Likert-scale tool testing and development
 Composite indicator creation
 Subject-matter skills to train on the topics
 Analytical techniques/ coding skills- depending on data availability technical viability and rationale.
• Regression / Geo-spatial analysis
• Factor analysis
• PCA, one hot
• Among others
 Visualizations
 Sense making/ interpretation and contextualizing with other available information.

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 Q&A
•Recommended Solutions and Mobility Indicators ​
•Data collection and analysis methodology ​
•Q & A
Part 2: Contextualizing to MENA

• Identifying existing MENA data collection exercises

to implement SMI
• Brainstorm common indicators to use for regional
analysis.
• Next steps Q & A
Shaping SMI forOther
YourLearning
Data Needs
Events

1. CURRENT ACTIVITIES:
• What are the current DTM activities and for what population
groups (mobility tracking, surveys) (migrants, IDPs, returnees)?
• What is the context? (Displacement/ migration context?
2. INFORMATION GAPS/ NEEDS
• Partners and actors present? strategic objectives of Govt and/or
actors? Funding opportunities?)
3. THEMATIC AREAS/ INDICATORS
• What indicators do you think might be relevant for Solutions and
Mobility in your country?
These could be related to social cohesion, safety and security, access to services and infrastructure
and demographic and movement trends, livelihoods, return.
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Next Steps Other Learning Events
• External consultations with key stakeholders to
identify data needs.

• Methodology design and indicator selection

• Form creation and operationalization

• Global Support available for detailed work planning

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Global Support-Other
IOMLearning Events
Available Support
 Positioning SMI work within IOM
and other regional/ country
Prithvi Hirani Simone Holladay
frameworks. DTM Programme Officer DTM Programme Officer
 Using the Global Repository of (SMI Focal Point)
phirani@iom.int
Technical Assistance & Capacity
Development. DTM Operations
sholladay@iom.int
SMI Best Practices and lessons
learnt
 Strengthening links with uses and
programming.
 Support with designing SMI Mohamed Bakr Esther Mulwa
Regional DTM Coordinator a.i.
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