Since October 8 there has been an increase in cross-border incidents between Israel and Lebanon, resulting in the displacement of people both within the South and elsewhere within the country. Since October 10, the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) has been conducting the daily monitoring of population movements. The objective of the exercise is to inform preparedness and response planning.

This report serves to present the findings from the Community-Based Needs Assessment conducted by DTM between March and September 2022 in Kurigram District, Bangladesh. It focuses on understanding the multisectoral needs and vulnerabilities prevalent in the 2,853 villages across all nine upazilas. The primary objective of CBNA is to furnish a baseline for determining programmatic priorities and enabling geographical targeting of assistance. To achieve this, the assessment supplies summary statistics of essential socio-economic indicators, including employment, household finances and income, food and nutrition, markets, shelter, environmental events (such as flooding and rain), health, education, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), utilities, and received assistance.

The Horn of Africa and Yemen is one of the busiest and riskiest migration corridors in the world travelled by hundreds of thousands of migrants, the majority of whom travel in an irregular manner, often relying on smugglers to facilitate movement along the Eastern Route. This regional report provides monthly updates on the complex migratory dynamics through Djibouti, Somalia, Yemen and Ethiopia based on diverse data sources and consultations with key informants in the four countries. Moreover, it provides information on the main protection concerns for migrants along the journey, information on the spillover effects of the conflict in the Sudan observed at the border with Ethiopia, a specific focus on children and information on the returns from Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia, Somalia and Yemen.

In response to the Somalia’s severe drought beginning in November 2021, DTM Somalia launched an Emergency Trends Tracking (ETT) tool first in Gedo and Bay regions in 2022, and subsequently in Hiraan, Banadir and Middle Shabelle regions in 2023 to monitor drought related displacement trends and hotspots in support of operational planning. However, during the first half of 2023, conflict and flooding displacements have been significant. Therefore, DTM restructured its ETT tool to capture multi-shock displacements (drought, flood, conflict and other) from October 2023.

ETT is a crisis-based tool that tracks sudden displacement triggered by specific events or emerging crises. The objective of ETT is to help prioritize humanitarian response and to enable partners to deliver rapid assistance.

In September 2023, 17.292 migratory movements were observed at Djibout's flow monitoring points (FMPs), with a daily average of 618 migratory movements. The migratory flows observed at all the FMPs fell by 31% in September compared with August 2023 due to increased border control operations in Djibouti and Yemen, which slowed down the flow of migrants en route from Ethiopia.

Of these 17,292 movements, 3.691 (21%) were observed in the Obock region, where migrants cross the Gulf of Aden on their way to the Arabian Peninsula. Migration flows at the Obock FMPs were down by 15% compared with August 2023. This drop can be attributed to the increased border controls carried out by the Djibouti coastguard in Obock.

Between January and September 2023, arrivals from Ethiopia (92,457) increased significantly by 32% compared with the same period the previous year (69,874). Migration movements were mainly. incoming (45%), transit to the Arabian Peninsula (41%). transit within Djibouti (5%), transit to Ethiopia (7%) and outgoing (2%). Spontaneous returns from Yemen rose by 60%, from 349 in August to 559 in September, including 61 women (11%).

La DTM a identifié 4,926 personnes affectées dont 1,493 personnes déplacées par les vents violents et des pluies torrentielles dans les provinces de Mwaro, Kirundo, Bujumbura Mairie, Bururi, Cankuzo et Makamba.

This study highlights some of the opportunities and challenges related to remittances, including the trends and patterns of earning, sending and using remittances as well as the barriers migrants face in sending money home. The study found that migrants are generally sending less money home and a quarter are sending money less frequently. At the same time, the proportion of migrants’ families who are relying on remittances as their primary source of income has been on the rise across countries of origin, pointing to increasing hardship and soaring needs. 

This infographic presents the key findings of Round 48 of the mobility tracking component of the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) programme in Libya.

IOM Libya’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) programme identified a total of 704,369 migrants from over 43 nationalities in the 100 Libyan municipalities during round 48 of data collection (May - June 2023). The number of migrants in Libya in May and June 2023 has remained relatively stable compared to the previous two rounds of data collection (705,746 migrants, Round 47, March-April 2023 and 706,472 migrants, Round 46, January - February 2023).