IDMC Global Report ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT 2018
On 1 January 2017, more than 1,000 people trying to enter Europe from northern Africa made headline news. 1 They tried to avoid the increasingly dangerous route across the Mediterranean by scaling a barbedwire border fence in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco. They followed hundreds of others who had successfully stormed the same border the previous month. The reasons behind their desperate and ultimately unsuccessful attempt were as diverse as their countries of origin, but they had at least one thing in common. Coming from as far as Afghanistan, Nigeria, Senegal and Syria, they had undertaken long and arduous journeys to reach the border fence.
DTM API
Making global IDPs data accessible and reliable
The Displacement Tracking Matrix application programming interface (API) accelerates secure sharing of IDPs’ data, simplifying access to data across users and partners to support action, insight and foresight.