Key findings:

• Twenty per cent of respondents live with people with specific needs or serious health conditions.
• Priority needs* include healthcare services (26%) and medication (18%).
• Households living with people with specific needs* include infants aged 0-4 years old (14%), children aged 5-17 years old (32%), and elderly above 60 years old (54%).
• Specific needs* include chronic diseases or serious medical conditions (90%), visual impairment (14%), people living with injuries (10%) and pregnant or lactating women (9%).
• The need for additional information* on healthcare services is reported by 32 per cent  of respondents, with 15 per cent citing the need for information on access to medication. 
• Top barriers to accessing healthcare services* include language barrier (75%), service costs (39%), lack of documents (28%), long queues (28%), and discrimination (17%).
• 58 per cent are Temporary Protection (TP) holders among those experiencing obstacles to access to healthcare.
• Seventy per cent of respondents pay for healthcare services and/or medication.
• The need for mental health and psyhosocial support (MHPSS) is needed by 5 per cent of repondents. Fifteen per cent requires more information on MHPSS, and 5 per cent have received MHPSS in 2023.

(*more than one answer possible)

As of December 2023, DTM identified a total of 1,092,196 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in 183,437 households across Benue, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Nasarawa, Plateau, Sokoto, and Zamfara states. The data collection started in December 2023 in 1,646 locations, in the eight states of north-central and north-west Nigeria. The IDP population included IDPs in camps and camp-like settings (196,502 individuals or 18%) and IDPs residing in host communities (895,694 individuals or 82%). This signifies an IDP increase of 1.5 per cent or 16,303 IDPs compared to what it was in September 2023.

Key Findings:

• Among respondents, 46 per cent spent more than one year in displacement. 20 per cent of respondents had spent less than a month in displacement at the time of the interview.
• The majority of respondents (57%) were travelling back to Ukraine alone. The remaining 43 per cent of survey respondents were crossing back into Ukraine as part of a group. 95 per cent of respondents travelling with a group (N=1,998) were travelling with their immediate family
• Out of 4,650 respondents, 86 per cent were planning to return to the same oblast of origin while the remaining 14 per cent aimed to reach a different one. Out of those returning to a different oblast (N=667), 16 per cent were originally from Donetska oblast, 14 per cent from Dnipropetrovska, 13 per cent from Zaporizka, and 12 per cent from Kyiv city.
• The percentage of respondents that had been residing in Poland prior to crossing back to Ukraine decreased steadily from 59 per cent in the first quarter of 2023 to 46 per cent in the fourth quarter (overall 50%).
• Overall, the top four most frequently indicated reasons for returning to Ukraine for the long-term were missing home (52%), reuniting with family (20%), working in essential services (16%), and because they had been visiting someone abroad but reside in Ukraine (15%).
• The proportion of respondents that reported having experienced discrimination has steadily risen from seven per cent in the first quarter to 18 per cent in the fourth quarter.
• Of respondents who received humanitarian assistance, the most frequently reported type was financial support (86%), for which the percentage has increased throughout the quarters of 2023.

Year of displacement

Number of IDPs by LGA

Reasons for displacement by State

Reasons for displacement by LGA - before 2021

Reasons for displacement by LGA - 2021