Returnee Update - Baseline Assessment Report - Mozambique - R16 - June 2022

During data collection of Baseline Assessment Round 16 (June 2022), IOM DTM teams additionally recorded the presence of returnees in newly accessible locations across Cabo Delgado and Niassa Provinces. In total, an estimated 138,231 returnees/ 33,873 returnee families were present in areas of return at time of assessment.

Over 59 per cent of all returnees (82,092 ind.) were reported to have arrived between October - December 2021. Out of these mapped populations, 54,461 individuals are reported to have returned to their habitual residences in Muidumbe district alone (Miteda and Muidumbe postos). Owing to logistical and access constraints during data collection, only 35 areas of return were assessed. A comparative analysis of return locations assessed so far records Muidumbe district as the area receiving the highest rate of returns (39 per cent, 54,461) followed by Palma (36 per cent, 49,543).