Flow Monitoring

According to the latest available figures from the Turkish Presidency of Migration Management (PMM), there are more than 4.5 million foreign nationals present in Türkiye, 3.4 million of whom are seeking international protection. Most are Syrians (3,151,915 individuals) who have been granted temporary protection status. In addition, international protection holders from countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Ukraine constitute another group of foreign nationals. According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there were 296,685 refugees and asylum-seekers in Türkiye as of 2023. Moreover in 2023, according to PMM, there were 19,017 international protection applicants in the country, a figure released by PMM annually.
In addition, there are 1,113,435 foreign nationals present in Türkiye, holding residence permits. Compared to February 2023, this is a decrease of 226,303 individuals.

La Mauritanie est un pays particulièrement vulnérable aux risques de catastrophes telles que les sécheresses et les inondations. Dans le contexte du changement climatique, le pays a connu ces dernières années des événements environnementaux extrêmes se matérialisant par des sécheresses prolongées, des inondations et des feux de brousses ravageant d’importantes surfaces de terres agricoles.

Face à cette situation et à une menace toujours présente, il est devenu urgent de prévenir ces catastrophes et de renforcer la capacité des différents acteurs intervenant dans la réduction des risques de catastrophe et la gestion des catastrophes à faire face aux menaces. C’est dans ce cadre que dans le projet visant la réduction des risques de catastrophes, financé par la protection civile et l’aide humanitaire de l’Union Européenne, un réseau d’informateurs clés (au niveau communautaire) et un système d’alertes précoces sur les risques de catastrophes ont été mis en place au niveau de dix villages de la moughataa  (département) de Bassikounou et de dix autres dans la moughataa de Adel Bagrou. Ces informateurs clés remontent les informations (alertes météos, risques de sécheresses, etc.) vers un point focal des alertes qui se charge de vérifier la véracité et la pertinence de l’information avant d’en informer les services techniques compétents.

This profile provides information on the situation and vulnerabilities of Sudanese migrants in Libya, including those having arrived after the onset of conflict in mid-April 2023 and provides an update to a brief published in May 2023.

The information pertaining to migrants’ situation and vulnerabilities is based on quantitative individual interviews conducted by DTM Libya with 4,274 migrants in 2023, unless stated otherwise. The migrant population figures are based on data collected through key informant interviews.

IOM Afghanistan's DTM Flow Monitoring activity, initiated at the beginning of 2024, seeks to quantify and better understand the mobility dynamics at Afghanistan’s borders. On 10 January 2024, DTM began deploying field teams at four border crossing points with the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRN) and Pakistan (PAK), expanding to another border crossing point Ghulam Khan as of 11 February (see map below for the locations of all five crossing points), to conduct two interlinked exercises. The first is a headcount of all individuals entering or leaving Afghanistan (including returnees), also called Flow Monitoring Counting (FMC), to gauge flow volume. The second is a survey of randomly selected Afghan national individuals or groups entering or leaving Afghanistan, also called the Flow Monitoring Survey (FMS), to understand the profiles, motivations, and vulnerabilities of the target population. This snapshot provides key findings combining various IOM data sources, including DTM Afghanistan’s FMC and FMS activities, DTM Pakistan’s Flow Monitoring of Afghan returnees, and IOM Afghanistan’s Cross-Border Post-Arrival Humanitarian Assistance (CB-PAHA) program, for the period 25 February to 2 March 2024. For more information about methodology, see the section in the last page of this report titled “IOM INFLOW DATA.” 

On 26 September 2023, the Ministry of Interior in Pakistan announced its decision to enact its “Illegal Foreigners’ Repatriation Plan (IFRP)”. Between 16 and 29 February 2024, 10,295 Afghan nationals returned to Afghanistan, including 6,320 through the Torkham BCP, 2,248 through the Chaman BCP, 1,727 through the Ghulam Khan BCP, while no Afghan nationals returned through the Badini BCP. In addition, border authorities deported 61 individuals due to a lack of valid documentation. Since 1 January 2024, IOM identified 37,090 returns at the four BCPs.

A total of 19,192 movements were observed in December 2023, representing a 16% increase compared to November 2023 when 16,614 movements were observed during this period. If compared with November 2023, Doolow (44%), Harirad (30%), Dhobley (17%) and Bossaso (6%) FMPs recorded an increase in movements while Lowyacado (-28%), Buuhoodle (-20%) and Cabudwaaq (-7%) FMP recorded a decrease in movements. Doolow (29%), Dhobley (21%) and Cabudwaaq (20%) FMPs recorded the highest numbers of incoming flows, while Doolow (47%), Bossaso (35%) and Dhobley (7%) recorded the highest numbers of outgoing flows.

L’OIM, à travers l’outil de Suivi des flux de populations (Flow Monitoring, FM) de la Matrice de suivi des déplacements (Displacement Tracking Matrix, DTM), récolte des données à des points d’entrée, de sortie et de transit clés, afin de mieux comprendre les mouvements de populations à travers l’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre. Le suivi des flux de populations est une activité qui permet de quantifier et de qualifier les flux et tendances de mobilités, les profils des migrants, et les expériences et routes migratoires. Au Burkina Faso, des points de suivi des flux de populations (Flow Monitoring Points, FMP) ont été progressivement installés sur plusieurs lieux de transit importants à Faramana et Yendéré en avril 2018 pour faire le suivi des flux migratoires dans le pays.​ Deux autres points importants (Cinkansé et Dori) ont été  respectivement mis en place en mai 2023 et en janvier 2024.

This report is an overview of the data collected from 1 to 31 January 2024 at Mangochi FMP in Malawi along the border with Mozambique and Karonga FMP in Malawi along the border with the United Republic of Tanzania. The Flow Monitoring Registry (FMR) collects data at Flow Monitoring Points (FMPs) through direct observation and interviews with key informants, including staff working at transit stations, border patrol officers, local authorities, bus or taxi drivers and travellers themselves. The FMR gathers data on the number of travellers crossing FMPs, as well as the provenance, next destination, vulnerabilities and means of transport of travellers. 

IOM Afghanistan's DTM Flow Monitoring activity, initiated at the beginning of 2024, seeks to quantify and better understand the mobility dynamics at Afghanistan’s borders. On 10 January 2024, DTM began deploying field teams at four border crossing points with the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRN) and Pakistan (PAK), expanding to another border crossing point Ghulam Khan as of 11 February (see map below for the locations of all five crossing points), to conduct two interlinked exercises. The first is a headcount of all individuals entering or leaving Afghanistan (including returnees), also called Flow Monitoring Counting (FMC), to gauge flow volume. The second is a survey of randomly selected Afghan national individuals or groups entering or leaving Afghanistan, also called the Flow Monitoring Survey (FMS), to understand the profiles, motivations, and vulnerabilities of the target population. This snapshot provides key findings combining various IOM data sources, including DTM Afghanistan’s FMC and FMS activities, DTM Pakistan’s Flow Monitoring of Afghan returnees, and IOM Afghanistan’s Cross-Border Post-Arrival Humanitarian Assistance (CB-PAHA) program, for the period 18 to 24 February 2024. For more information about methodology, see the section in the last page of this report titled “IOM INFLOW DATA.”