Southern Africa — Annual Flow Monitoring Report (2021)

IOM works with national and local authorities in order to gain a better understanding of population movements throughout Southern Africa. Through the setup of Flow Monitoring Points (FMPs), IOM seeks to quantify migration flows, trends and routes and to gain a better understanding of the profiles of observed individuals at entry, transit or exit points (such as border crossing posts, bus stations, rest areas, police checkpoints and reception centres). At each FMP, DTM conducts two main activities: Flow Monitoring Registry (FMR) and Flow Monitoring Surveys (FMS). This report is an overview of FMR and FMS data collected from January through December 2021 at the eight migration corridors that were active in 2021.

Inter-regional migration from and within Southern Africa is categorized along the following corridors. The Flow Monitoring Points (FMPs) were set-up in several key transit locations along the corridors to track the movements of passengers:

• Zimbabwe – Botswana (Plumtree)
• Zimbabwe (Mutare) – Mozambique (Manica)
• Zimbabwe (Chirundu) – Zambia
• South Africa – Zimbabwe (Beitbridge)
• Malawi (Mchinji) – Zambia (Mwami)
• Malawi (Karonga ) – United Republic of Tanzania
• Malawi (Mwanza) – Mozambique (Zobue)
• Malawi (Mulanje) – Mozambique

Over the reporting period a total of 430,007 movements were observed across 68 FMPs in the region and a total of 12,881 surveys were conducted at 54 FMPs.