Members and partners

The International Household Survey Network was established as a mechanism to coordinate and foster cooperation among international organizations and agencies. Membership in the Network is currently limited to organizations and agencies providing financial and/or technical support to the implementation of national and/or international survey programs in developing countries. The IHSN Management Group decides on new membership.

Membership does not imply any legal obligation, or any mandatory contribution. It represents however a commitment to adhere to the following principles whenever possible and appropriate:

• Share information on on-going and planned survey programs, with a view to coordinate the timing and sequencing of surveys.
• Seek coordination of survey programs, and implement joint activities when possible and appropriate.
• Seek harmonization of questionnaires to improve over-time and international comparability.
• Share survey metadata, and participate in the maintenance of a central survey catalogue.
• Advocate best practices in survey data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
• Participate in the cost of IHSN activities, by providing in kind or in cash voluntary contributions.

Current active members include:

• African Development Bank (AfDB)
• Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• Department for International Development, United Kingdom (DfID)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• Health Metrics Network (HMN)
• Interamerican Development Bank (IADB)
• International Labor Organization (ILO)
• International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
• Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP)
• Observatoire Economique et Statistique d'Afrique Subsaharienne (AFRISTAT)
• Partnership for Statistics in the 21st Century (PARIS21/OECD)
• United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia(ESCWA)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Institute for Statistics (UNESCO/UIS)
• United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)
• World Bank, Development Data Group (WB-DECDG)
• World Food Programme (WFP)
• World Health Organization (WHO)

The IHSN also benefits from the collaboration of non-member agencies. Partnerships are established with agencies, associations or other groups who are the leaders in specific areas related to survey data collection, analysis or dissemination. These include:

• The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)
• DataFirst, University of Cape Town
• The Education policy and Data Center (EPDC)
• The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
• The International Health facility Assessment Network (IHFAN)
• The Open Data Foundation (ODaF)