THEMATIC REPORT 2017 TORTURE AND MIGRATION About the DFI Project Central to the development of the torture rehabilitation sector’s ability to evidence its work, is the collection of appropriate, consistent and comparable clinical information. The Data in the Fight Against Impunity (DFI) Project is a system-wide response to creating this ability. Across the globe, hundreds of rehabilitation centres are providing services to thousands of survivors of torture on a daily basis, yet not all are systematically capturing the data of their clients in a way that can be used to create long-term change. Without hard facts and the ability to identify trends locally, nationally and globally, the impunity of perpetrators is likely to continue. In June 2014, 12 rehabilitation centres from around the world were brought together to develop and test a data collection system to enable them to collect clinical data and integrate the documentation of torture at all stages of the rehabilitation process. This data can then be used to create powerful evidence-based approaches with the potential to mobilise the public and to target governments to act and to disseminate evidence-based outputs to support anti-impunity work. These centres started to use the database in February 2015 and to adapt it to their practices, share reports about the identify of survivors, the places they were tortured, how they were tortured and by who. They have since been joined by 20 additional rehabilitation centres for phase two of the project. Data is now being collected by 33 rehabilitation centres in 28 countries. Obtaining concrete information is key, it needs to be used effectively. Communications and advocacy are key elements of the project and throughout the first two years of the project partners received training on how to identify the most useful and powerful tools that will enable them to make progress to achieve whatever change they want to make in their context. Data is now being collected by 33 rehabilitation centres in 28 countries. page 7