Original Language
English
ISBN (PDF)
978-92-9268-957-5
Number of Pages
88
Reference Number
PUB2024/013/EL
Year of Publication
2024
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Assessment of Migration Data in Seychelles

The availability of timely and reliable migration data plays a pivotal role in shaping migration policies. By providing a clear picture of migration trends, demographics and socioeconomic impacts, data empowers policymakers to make informed decisions. Global frameworks and commitments, such the 2030 Agenda and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular migration, highlight the importance of migration data and the urgent need to improve it. Similarly, the 2017 Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa (MIDSA) recommended that Member States of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) build their respective capacities to collect and analyse migration-related data to develop evidence-based policies to improve migration governance at the national and regional levels. It is against this backdrop that IOM conducted an assessment of the country’s migration data, with support from the European Union-funded Southern Africa Migration Management (SAMM) Programme. 

Seychelles is a country of internal migration, emigration and immigration. As such, quality migration data is needed to inform migration, labour migration, return and reintegration policies and, by extension, to support safe, orderly and regular migration. The Government of Seychelles is conscious that the availability of accurate, reliable and continually updated migration data is vital for evidence-based policymaking, strategic planning and programming. This assessment report describes current practices with respect to the collection, storage, analysis and dissemination of migration data and recommends measures to improve migration data management in Seychelles. It represents a useful tool for the Government of Seychelles and other stakeholders to enhance migration data and support effective policymaking. 

  • Acronyms
  • List of tables
  • Executive summary
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methodological approach to the assessment
    • 2.1. Review of the literature review
    • 2.2. Data collection
    • 2.3. Data analysis
    • 2.4. Study limitations and mitigation measures
  • 3. Key assessment findings
    • 3.1. Main bodies responsible for migration data collection, analysis and dissemination
    • 3.2. Gaps and challenges in migration data collection, analysis and dissemination
  • 4. Migration data collection
    • 4.1. Sources of migration data
    • 4.2. Gaps and challenges in migration data collection
  • 5. Definitions, standards and quality of data
    • 5.1. Gaps and challenges in harmonizing definitions and standards and ensuring data quality
  • 6. Migration data storage and data processing
    • 6.1. Gaps and challenges in data storage and processing
  • 7. Migration data-sharing and dissemination
    • 7.1. Gaps and challenges in migration data-sharing and dissemination
  • 8. Data exchange with organizations outside Seychelles
    • 8.1. Gaps and challenges in data-sharing with organizations outside Seychelles
  • 9. National policies, strategies and working groups on migration
    • 9.1. The migration data landscape in Seychelles
    • 9.2. Gaps and challenges national policies, strategies and working groups on migration
  • 10. Bilateral and multilateral cooperation on migration
    • 10.1. Gaps and challenges bilateral and multilateral cooperation on migration
  • 11. General migration data gaps and challenges
  • 12. General recommendations
  • 13. Needs to address in the short term
    • 13.1. Capacity development
  • 14. Needs to address in the medium term
    • 14.1. National coordination
    • 14.2. Technical equipment
  • 15. Needs that will need to be addressed in the longer term
    • 15.1. National coordination
    • 15.2. Technical equipment
    • 15.3. Use of big data
  • Conclusion
  • Annex I. Guide to defining terminology, data concepts and data characteristics
  • Annex II. Interministerial/inter-agency action matrix
  • Bibliography