Consultant (Design and Install an integrated data management system and database for migration data in Lesotho)

Migration data has become increasingly crucial for planning, monitoring and implementation of national, regional and whole of Africa migration action plans. This requires a harmonized approach and SADC has initiated regional harmonization initiatives aligned with the 2019 Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa (MIDSA) including the SADC harmonization roadmap validated in March 2021, which encourages the Member States to collect, analyse and disseminate comparable, reliable, and disaggregated migration data.

Furthermore, The Government has recently adopted Labour Migration and Diaspora Engagement Policies in 2019 and 2020, respectively and currently revising the overarching Migration and Development Policy. The development process of these policies has revealed that there is lack of reliable up to date data to inform migration management and effective implementation of these policies will be hampered by existing data gaps identified in previous assessments (IOM 2018).

The Government of Lesotho has sought support from IOM to strengthen the country’s migration data management practices and to develop a methodology for migration data collection, sharing and analysis (which includes guidance on gender-sensitive data collection and analysis) and compile existing information into a migration profile report that can serve as a baseline for further reporting.

The Government of Lesotho received support from IOM Development Fund (IDF) in 2020 for a project to start the process of developing the country’s first migration profile. The funding was intended to implement the first phase of the project which was completed in July 2021. In the first phase of the project, the Bureau of Statistics (BOS)’ s coordination role was strengthened by establishing a Migration Data Working Group (MDWG) that will be pivotal in collecting and analyzing data to develop migration profile report.

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