What is Profiling?

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JIPS (Joint IDP Profiling Service)
Quiz by JIPS (Joint IDP Profiling Service), updated more than 1 year ago
JIPS (Joint IDP Profiling Service)
Created by JIPS (Joint IDP Profiling Service) about 7 years ago
1999
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Question 1

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Profiling is an ongoing and continuous exercise that produces a regularly updated stream of information
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 2

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Profiling can provide in-depth sectoral information
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 3

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What is considered the “core data” that is collected in a profiling exercise?
Answer
  • Age
  • Reasons for Displacement
  • Sex
  • Diversity
  • Location

Question 4

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What are the kinds of information that a profiling exercise might typically collect?
Answer
  • Social cohesion in communities with higher concentrations of displaced populations
  • Population disaggregated by sex, age, location and diversity
  • Displaced person’s plans and coping mechanisms for what appears to be protracted displacement
  • Locations of where the target population can be found

Question 5

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What are some uses for the data collected and analysed in a profiling exercise?
Answer
  • Identifying and tracking individual cases
  • Informing the process of property restitution
  • Convincing governments to allocate funding for displaced people
  • Inform assistance programs on the needs and capacities of the populations

Question 6

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Is it possible for profiling to produce comparative analyses between IDPs, refugees and host communities?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 7

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We know that there is a sizable population of displaced persons in a given region, but it appears that the majority are living outside of camps or collective centers. Can profiling still capture information on this population?
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 8

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In a profiling exercise, promoting collaboration is only important during the planning and implementation phases
Answer
  • FALSE. Collaboration is important through the exercise because it helps the parties trust and act on findings and the recommendations
  • FALSE. Collaboration throughout the exercise is important first and foremost because it allows the profiling coordinator to keep tabs on other organizations and discourage defection
  • TRUE. Because the end goal of a profiling exercise is to collect data, everything else that happens after collection does not concern the exercise
  • TRUE. Because the most difficult part is for all relevant actors to agree on objectives, once this is established, cooperation typically follows throughout the exercise
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