Afghanistan — Baseline Mobility Assessment Summary Results (October—December 2018)

In Afghanistan, DTM employs the Baseline Mobility Assessment tool, designed to track mobility, determine the population sizes and locations of forcibly displaced people, reasons for displacement, places of origin, displacement locations and times of displacement, including basic demographics, as well as vulnerabilities and priority needs. Data is collected at the settlement level, through key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and direct observations.

Between October to December 2018, 34 provinces, 390 districts and 11,443 settlements were assessed, including interviews with 64,186 key informants. Between 2012 and 2018, 3,225,380 returnees and 3,529,971 IDPs currently living in host communities were identified.