Youth Committee on Migration & Displacement Data

A person holding a tablet with the cover of a publication titled 'Assessing Child and Youth Rights in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration,' featuring a group of smiling diverse young people looking down at the camera against a bright blue sky.

The Youth Committee on Migration and Displacement Data contributes, reviews, and evaluates youth perspectives in migration and displacement research and data. Its goal is to ensure youth-centered insights in data processes and to support global governance on migration and displacement. The Committee is mandated by MYCP to represent child and young migrants and displaced people in decision-making.

The YCMDD is in partnership with the International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC), led by UNICEF.

We participate through

Production of Outputs

Produce high academic quality content as a contribution to the field of migration & displacement data.
Knowledge Sharing

Support, deliver and execute relevant capacity building and knowledge-sharing activities relevant to the Committee’s theme, in line with MYCP’s capacity building programming.
Representing Youth Voices

Engage and include grassroots voices in its activities through specific activities and means to achieve its objectives, representing those voices in the work of MYCP and IDAC, and relevant decision-making spaces.

Research

Knowledge Hub

July 7, 2026

Migrant domestic work in SWANA and the Asia-Pacific: A child- and youth–sensitive analysis of protection gaps

July 7, 2026

Ahead of the International Migration Forum, this MYCP research report brings together evidence on how social protection systems can better respond to the needs of migrant and displaced young people in line with the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). It builds on the recognition that social protection is a key policy tool to reduce inequalities, support access to basic services, and enable young people to navigate transitions in contexts shaped by displacement and exclusion. This report rejects traditional clustering and adopts a cross sectoral approach, reflecting the reality that migration intersects with multiple policy areas. It examines how structural drivers such as climate change and migration shape young people’s access to fundamental rights and services like education and healthcare.

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July 7, 2026

April 16, 2026

Assessing Child and Youth Rights in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

April 16, 2026

Strengthening alignment with the UNCRC requires the development of clearer procedural standards, child-specific accountability mechanisms, and sustained investment in systems that ensure access to services, protection, and justice. Crucially, it also requires recognising children and youth as active participants in migration governance, with the right and capacity to shape the policies and processes that affect their lives. Without such shifts, the gap between commitment and practice will remain, and migrant children will continue to face systemic protection deficits.