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EU Statement - IOM 37th Session of the Standing Committee on Programmes and Finance - Item 11(a) (I) Building Solutions Pathways, How Data Can Transform Action

28.10.2025
Geneva
Press and information team of the Delegation to the UN in Geneva

International Organisation for Migration 

37th Session of the Standing Committee on Programmes and Finance

27-28 October 2025

 

Item 11(a) (I) – Building Solutions Pathways – How Data Can Transform Action

(Background document S/37/3)

 

Statement on behalf of the European Union and its Member States

Thank you, Chair.

I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union and its Member States.

The candidate countries Türkiye, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania*, Ukraine, Republic of Moldova and Georgia, and the EFTA country Norway, member of the European Economic Area, align themselves with this statement.

  1. We remain firmly committed to the Secretary-General’s Action Agenda on Internal Displacement and appreciate IOM’s leadership during its chairmanship of the Solutions Champions Group, together with UNDP and UNHCR. We commend IOM for ensuring that prevention, protection and solutions remain central to global action.

  2. We welcome IOM’s report “Building Solutions Pathways” as a valuable and forward-looking contribution. Reliable, context-specific data are essential to inform government policies and to transform frameworks into practical, locally tailored solutions. As highlighted in PROGRESS 2024, humanitarian and displacement data guide state-led planning, enabling transitions from response to sustainable recovery.

  3. We value IOM’s continued efforts to make data a cornerstone of the solutions agenda, such as: In Somalia, data inform recovery and resilience planning and support collaboration between the statistics office, ministries and humanitarian actors. In Honduras, we recognise that IOM’s partnership with the national statistics office helps institutionalise displacement data through an official household-survey module. We also note work in Colombia, Iraq and Ukraine, where data help authorities identify priorities for housing, land, livelihoods and reintegration. We encourage IOM to sustain this momentum and continue assisting governments in translating evidence into action. 

  4. Global frameworks further strengthen coherence. We welcome IOM’s leadership of the Data for Solutions to Internal Displacement Taskforce and its role in EGRISS. We also support IOM’s collaboration with other agencies through the International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC), which helps States enhance statistics and data on children on the move, thereby strengthening evidence-based decision-making. 

  5. Cooperation across UN agencies and with other stakeholders, such as IDMC, is essential to ensure that data on internally displaced persons are shared and made available, accessible and interoperable, and in line with the objectives of the UN80 reform.

  6. Robust data capacity enables better prioritisation of limited resources and forward-looking forecasting so the international community can invest in more targeted prevention and preparedness. Data do not only cost money –they can attract it – by guiding development investments and financing for lasting stability.

  7. The European Union and its Member States value their strong partnership with IOM and the United Nations system in promoting coherent, data-driven evidence-based, and government led approaches to displacement. 

  8. We congratulate IOM on its achievements over the past year and reaffirm our commitment to continue working together to further strengthen sustainable, nationally owned solutions for internally displaced persons.

Thank you, Chair.

* North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Albania continue to be part of the Stabilisation and Association Process.