CHLOE SYDNEY February 22nd marks the deadline for the formation of South Sudan’s transitional government of national unity, designed to unite president Salva Kiir and head of opposition Riek Machar...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Following decades of civil war, a comprehensive peace agreement and the subsequent independence of South Sudan in 2011 prompted as many as two million refugees to return to the...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for the highest number of IDPs and new displacements associated with conflict and violence in 2018. It also registered a historically high number of new...
A very quick look at the year 2019 for the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. It was another year in which tens of millions of people were displaced by conflict and disaster: IDMC’s first task...
This paper describes the methodology IDMC is developing in collaboration with its partners to monitor displacement associated with drought and addresses some of the main challenges inherent in the...
This strategy describes the approach IDMC has developed to monitoring cross-border displacement associated with conflict, and addresses some of the main challenges inherent in the exercise. We...
A PARTNERSHIP WITH GERMANY'S FEDERAL FOREIGN OFFICE The global number of people displaced by slow onset disasters remain unknown. Drought conditions were responsible for at least 760,000 new...
A STUDY FINANCED BY GERMANY’S FEDERAL FOREIGN OFFICE The majority of people who flee their homes to escape conflict, violence and disasters do not cross an international border. Of the 70.8 million...
SUMMARY Displacement in Afghanistan is both a historical and contemporary phenomenon. One in four Afghans have been displaced, and conflict triggered 372,000 new internal displacements in 2018...
Ten years on from the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, the figures tell us that most of the displaced population has officially been able to return home. But the numbers only tell...