Senegal/Migration flows: CILMI focal points equipped for data collection

Focal points of the inter-ministerial committee to combat irregular migration (CILMI) took part in a capacity-building workshop on data collection on migratory flows, which opened on Tuesday in Saly-Portudal (west), with a view to achieving "harmonization of data" from the various entities involved.

The two-day workshop, attended by focal points from several of Senegal's regions and departments, "will enable the harmonization of data available to the various entities on the borders", said Aïssata Kane, head of the IOM Senegal mission, which also covers Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal.Aïssata Kane, head of the IOM Senegal mission, which also covers Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone.

The IOM Senegal head of mission believes that "any sectoral policy or strategy on migration must be based on factual data [...]".

On this basis, the IOM will be assisting the many government entities involved in data collection, in this task which takes on "several forms", she added.

Over the two days, participants will be trained in the creation and management of data collection forms, and their skills in analyzing and visualizing the data collected will be enhanced.

It's important for us to be able to put in place a tool [that can] be assimilated by all the players active in the field of migration, to analyze and understand the pace of population displacement".Modou Diagne, Permanent Secretary of the Interministerial Committee for the Fight against Irregular Migration.

Source: aps.sn/