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Data and Displacement is a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office funded project, involving partners in Nigeria and South Sudan. It provides crucial insights into the impacts of data-driven development on internally displaced communities in conflict situations. The project currently faces uncertainty, due to news that the UK government has decided to cut overseas development aid funded projects. While some projects have already been informed of the considerable cuts that they face, others such as Data and Displacement await further news. Despite this, the research remains pressing. Data and Displacement considers how people ‘falling through the cracks’ of protection can be further excluded through the generation and use of large-scale data. The research provides urgent new insights into the ways that humanitarian organisations can work with local partners and with IDPs themselves in order to improve knowledge about displacement-related vulnerabilities. This is crucial in order to ensure the effective distribution and use of development aid for vulnerable groups in situations of conflict.

Data and Displacement brings together researchers from University of ÌÇÐÄTV (UK), University of Ibadan (Nigeria), University of Juba (South Sudan) and the International Organization for Migration. The research team remains fully committed to continuing this important work and to building equitable partnerships and impactful interdisciplinary research. The partners involved in this project have come together on the basis of the mutual trust that has been built up over time; trust the team remains committed to protecting and enhancing further. The research team is currently conducting fieldwork in northern Nigeria and South Sudan, and is fully committed to meeting the promises that have made to the project’s research participants.