Reports

DTM identified 191,908 internally displaced persons (33,469 households), 23,430 unregistered refugees (4,066 households) and 35,665 returnees (6,366 households). 92% of the displaced population was displaced by the insurgency and 8% by flooding and other natural disasters. 47% of the current population was displaced in 2016, 29% in 2015, 20% in 2014 and 4% before 2014. An estimated 62% of the displaced household population lives in host communities while 23% live in rented housing, 10% in spontaneous settlements, and 4% in collective centres.

During the reporting period IOM enhanced the recovery of health services through the provision of sustainable water supply at health facilities in Enga, Jiwaka and Simbu Provinces. IOM also built a gravity-fed water supply system providing clean water to 1,200 households in Morobe Province. The organization has also been working with the PNG Civil and Identity Registry Office to document and has registered the displaced community of Lese Ward, Gulf Province into PNG’s new national registration system.

DTM identified 20,641 IDP families comprised of 123,846 individuals. The majority of the identified individuals (95,268) originated from Mosul. 108,048 people were living in camps or emergency settings and 13,776 people were living in private settings. 

Currently 19,382 families remain displaced (116,292 individuals). 2,326 families (13,956 individual IDPs) have returned. Between the updates of 22 and 29 December 2016, an increase of 1,278 new IDP families has been recorded. 86% of the currently displaced IDPs (100,506 individuals) are hosted in camps or emergency sites, with a high concentration in Ninewa.

The primary goal of the exercise was to register the returnee population and assess their needs. A total of 1,991 households composed of 11,130 individuals were reregistered in twelve different locations out of the 2,173 reported families. An estimated 51% of the returnees were females; 39% of the returnees were identified to be of the school going age (between 5 to 17 years old), whereas, about 25% were between 18 to 59 years old.

The current population of the site is 29,021 comprising 5,599 households. Current priority needs include: space to decongest the site, the completion of security earthworks around the perimeter and the registration of new arrivals.

The total number of returnees from January 2016 to December 2016 was 28,530 individuals. DTM recorded 1,407 returnees in the month of December.

Since February 2016, IOM Niger has been carrying out flow monitoring of migrants at two points in Niger in the region of Agadez. 1,663 incoming individuals were observed in FMPs and 12,923 outgoing individuals were observed in FMPs during the reporting period.

This document presents DTM Libya Mobility Tracking methodology, IOM Libya’s Mobility Tracking Methodology is to be read in coordination IOM’s Baladiya (B1F) and Muhalla (B2F) Enumerator Instructions and Guidelines.

This report presents a cumulative quantitative analysis of baseline data and migrant-focused DTM surveys carried out between the 12th of July and the 15th of December, 2016. IOM estimates that there are between 700,000 to 1 million migrants in Libya, of whom Mobility Tracking tracked and identified 245,242 migrants by December 2016. Of those, 6,620 migrants were reorded as residing in detention centres at the time of reporting.

More than 5 years after the devastating 12 January 2010 earthquake, an estimated 12,001 households, or 46,691 individuals are still residing in 31 IDP sites in the earthquake affected communes. Of the 31 displacement sites still open, 45% are tents and makeshift shelter sites and 55% are T-shelter sites. 0 IDP sites closed between 1 October 2016 and 31 December 2016. When comparing the figures from the 28th round of the DTM to the IDP figures from 2010, a net decrease of 349,516 of the total households (or 1,489,756 individuals) identified in 2010, can be observed. 

In Cashi, DTM recorded 1,063 IDPs (135 households) in October 2016. This number did not change in the follollowing month. The numbers did not change in the case of Gitaza either during the same months, where DTM recorded 1,269 IPDs (182 households). In Mushasha 1, DTM counted 1,776 IDPs (303 HH) in October 2016 and 2,032 IDPs in the same number of households in December of the same year. In Mushasha 2, DTM recorded 599 IDPs (102HH) in October 2016 and 958 IDPs (102 HH) in December 2016.