Looking forward to insightful discussions and collaboration! Let’s connect at #CIES2025.

We will be joined by PAL Network’s ICAN & ICARe, CONFEMEN’s PASEC, UIS initiatives, and ACER’s AMPL—highlighting efforts to design robust, equitable, and scalable assessment tools.

Comparability in learning assessments is key to understanding progress and informing policy. This session will provide an overview of UNICEF’s Foundational Learning Surveys (FLS) and FLM 2.0.

📌 Event 2: Designing Comparable International Assessments for Measuring Foundational Learning in Low- and Middle-Income Contexts
🗓 Tuesday, March 25 | 2:45–4:00 PM
📍 Palmer House, 3rd Floor, Cresthill

This session explores how digital tools and data-driven approaches are transforming foundational learning. From real-time data collection and monitoring to enhanced accountability and evidence generation, we’ll showcase how UNICEF is working with countries to bridge learning gaps.

📌 Event 1: Accelerating Foundational Learning Through Data-Driven Decision Making—Digital Solutions in Action
🗓 Saturday, March 22 | 2:45–4:00 PM
📍 Palmer House, 3rd Floor, Salon 5

#ChildrenOnTheMove #DataForChange #ChildRights #UNICEF #MigrationData #Eurostat #IDAC #Refugees #IOM #OECD #GlobalDevelopment

📢 This publication was developed through a global collaborative effort among IDAC Secretariat members—@EU_Eurostat, @UNmigration (IOM), @OECD, @Refugees (UNHCR), @UNICEF @UnicefData —alongside over 15 national statistical offices and multiple international organizations.

To close this gap, the International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC) @IdacM—a global initiative co-funded by the European Union 🇪🇺 and the Kingdom of the Netherlands 🇳🇱—has developed a standardized framework for improving data collection, monitoring, and national capacities.

🚸 Children on the move face significant barriers to accessing basic rights, yet reliable data on their experiences is scarce. This data gap hinders policymakers from creating effective protections and support for migrant and displaced children.

These indicators, detailed in the newly published Indicators for Children on the Move: A Guideline, provide a globally comparable framework to strengthen national data systems and make them more responsive to the realities of migrant and displaced children.

📌 10 Core Statistics to measure the stock and flow of children on the move
📌 21 Additional Indicators across health, education, child protection, and poverty
📌 Best practices from countries already implementing child-focused migration data systems

Sorry, but I really don't think you do. 😉 You should add the Zen experience of using a tape recorder to store data. I remember waiting five to 8 minutes for my spelunker game to load in my first home computer.

Note: This a hybrid format event with limited in-person seating at UNICEF House. A virtual link will be provided after registration. Please bring a valid government ID and your UN Grounds Pass (if applicable).

The event brings together the statistical community to advance child-sensitive migration and displacement data. Discussions will focus on methodological challenges, the adoption of standardized indicators, and actions policymakers can take to leverage data to improve results for children on the move

The International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC), a joint effort by @Eurostat, @IOM, @OECD, @UNHCR and @UNICEF, invites you to a side event of the UN Statistical Commission’s 56th Session.