Mobility Tracking

In February 2021, IOM Iraq, the Returns Working Group and Social Inquiry produced a report, Home Again? Categorising Obstacles to Returnee Reintegration in Iraq. It analyzed the sustainability of reintegration for families who had returned to their area of origin after being displaced due to the ISIL conflict.5 In line with the durable solutions framework developed by the Expert Group on Refugee and IDP Statistics (EGRIS), the report examined the extent to which sustainable reintegration had taken place across five areas.6 Persistent issues related to safety, security and social relations were found to represent the most significant barriers to achieving sustainable reintegration amongst returnees in Iraq.

The objective of this report is to inform strategy development and planning in support of the sustainable reintegration of returnees in their area of origin. It provides a snapshot of the key reintegration challenges that returnees face related to safety, security and social relations, and highlights areas where these challenges are most prevalent. Where there is longitudinal data, the report also demonstrates how conditions have changed in the period between October 2020 and September 2021.

This report examines the prevalence of key obstacles for reintegration that returnee households face in Iraq as of mid-2020. These obstacles are grouped into five main criteria, as follows: safety, security & social relations, access to livelihoods & economic security, documentation, property resitution & compensation and adequate standard of living.

As of December 2020, Iraq has witnessed the return of 4.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their places of origin in the aftermath of the ISIL conflict. 1 Inter-Agency Standing Committee, IASC Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons. Expert Group on Refugee and IDP Statistics, International Recommendations on IDP Statistics, background document to fifty-first session of the UN Statistical Commission, 3-6 March 2020. This is a significant returnee population and, while the movement home is a first step toward reintegration, it is not necessarily an indication of longer-term sustainability per se.1 The analysis in this report, by IOM Iraq, the Returns Working Group (RWG), and Social Inquiry, builds upon on and complements previous assessments on durable solutions, mainly with regards to obstacles to return as well as progress toward local integration for IDPs. The focus here is specifically on returnees and obstacles to their sustainable reintegration upon return.

Le rapport DTM indique qu'entre le 8 et le 14 avril 2024, au Burundi, 13 674 personnes ont été affectées et 3 715 déplacées suite à des pluies torrentielles, des glissements de terrain, des inondations et des vents violents nécessitant une réponse immédiate de la communauté humanitaire. Parmi les affectés, 7 546 sont des femmes et 6 128 sont des hommes. La répartition par type d'urgence montre que les pluies torrentielles ont affecté 6 983 personnes et en ont déplacé 2 507, les glissements de terrain ont affecté 6 046 personnes et en ont déplacé 793, les inondations ont affecté 359 personnes et en ont déplacé 256, et les vents violents ont affecté 286 personnes et en ont déplacé 159. Les groupes vulnérables comprennent 122 femmes enceintes ou allaitantes, 3 hommes seuls chefs de ménage, 7 personnes avec une maladie chronique, 15 personnes handicapées et 10 personnes âgées vivant seules. Les dommages incluent de nombreuses habitations ainsi que des infrastructures telles que des écoles, des églises et des bâtiments administratifs. Cette situation met en lumière la nécessité d'une aide humanitaire continue et ciblée dans la région.

This report reflects data corresponding to Weekly Displacement Snapshot 27 dataset, valid as of 12 April 2024. The dataset is available here. 

Overview

On 15 April 2023, armed clashes erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in multiple cities across Sudan. Clashes initially took place in cities across Northern and Khartoum states, later spreading across the Darfur and Kordofan regions.

Highlights

• DTM Sudan estimates that 6,680,850 individuals (1,330,933 households) were recently internally displaced.
• The IDP caseload was observed in 7,143 locations across all of Sudan’s 18 states. 
• The highest proportions of IDPs were observed across South Darfur (11%), River Nile (11%), and East Darfur (10%).
• Field teams reported that the IDPs observed were originally displaced from twelve states. The majority (3,560,858 IDPs, 54%) were reportedly displaced from Khartoum state; followed by South Darfur (15%), Aj Jazirah (10%), North Darfur (9%), Central Darfur (4%), West Darfur (4%), South Kordofan (2%), East Darfur (1%), West Kordofan (1%), North Kordofan (1%), Sennar (1%) and White Nile (<1%).
• IOM-DTM also reported that an estimated 2,050,391 mixed cross-border movements were made into neighbouring countries.
• This product provides brief insights into those displaced in Sudan post-15 April 2023. For more granular information on the IDP caseload and the displacement context, please see IOM-DTM's One Year of Conflict in Sudan: Visualizing the World's Largest Displacement Crisis. 

Note: In lieu of Weekly Displacement Snapshot 26, DTM Sudan published a report to to mark one year of conflict in Sudan. Please see: One Year of Conflict in Sudan: Visualizing the World's Largest Displacement Crisis. The report reflects data corresponding to Weekly Displacement Snapshot 26 dataset, valid as of 04 April 2024.

Due to an observed increase in inflows to Sinjar and Al-Ba’aj districts driven in part by challenges related to protracted displacement, social tensions between Yazidis and other residents and family reunification, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) in Iraq launched an emergency tracking tool in April 2023 to understand the number of people in movement and their main characteristics. After seven months of data collection and tracking this will be the last update due to the significant decrease in the number of arrivals.

Due to an observed increase in inflows to Sinjar and Al-Ba’aj districts that was driven in part by challenges related to protracted displacement, social tensions between Yazidis and other residents and family reunification, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) in Iraq launched an emergency tracking tool in April 2023 to understand the number of people in movement and their main characteristics.
 

Due to an observed increase in inflows to Sinjar and Al-Ba’aj districts that was driven in part by challenges related to protracted displacement, social tensions between Yazidis and other residents and family reunification, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) in Iraq launched an emergency tracking tool in April 2023 to understand the number of people in movement and their main characteristics.

Due to an observed increase in inflows to Sinjar and Al-Ba’aj districts that was driven in part by challenges related to protracted displacement, social tensions between Yazidis and other residents and family reunification, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) in Iraq launched an emergency tracking tool in April 2023 to understand the number of people in movement and their main characteristics.

Due to an observed increase in inflows to Sinjar and Al-Ba’aj districts trigged by social tension between Yazidis and other residents, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) in Iraq launched an emergency tracking tool in April 2023 to understand the number of people in movement and their main characteristics.

Due to an observed increase in inflows to Sinjar and Al-Ba’aj districts trigged by social tension between Yazidis and other residents, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) in Iraq launched an emergency tracking tool in April 2023 to understand the number of people in movement and their main characteristics.