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ACCESS TO DURABLE SOLUTIONS AMONG IDPS IN IRAQ: EXPERIENCES APPLYING TO COMPENSATION
January 16, 2020
Access to Durable Solutions Among IDPs in Iraq: Experiences Applying to Compensation delves into self-reported levels of damage to housing and property among IDPs and sampled returnees and their experiences with the compensation process. IDPs’ kn...
WHEN AFFORDABILITY MATTERS: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY AND ECONOMIC DECISION MAKING OF IRAQI IDPS
December 26, 2019
This study by IOM Iraq, Returns Working Group (RWG), and Social Inquiry delves into the various issues and challenges that IDPs consider when assessing the affordability of return, and accordingly, the calculations they make when considering whether...
ACCESS TO DURABLE SOLUTIONS AMONG IDPS IN IRAQ FOUR YEARS IN DISPLACEMENT
November 13, 2019
IOM has implemented a Longitudinal Study on Durable Solutions for IDPs in Iraq since 2015 in partnership with Georgetown University (Washington DC, the United States) in order to understand how IDPs navigate their displacement and take steps to buil...
ACCESS TO DURABLE SOLUTIONS AMONG IDPS IN IRAQ: MOVING IN DISPLACEMENT
September 9, 2019
IDPs who change location of displacement but do not return to their district of origin move to find jobs and secure livelihoods, supported by their family networks...
Reasons to Remain (Part 2): Determinants of IDP Integration into Host Communities in Iraq
April 16, 2019
Nearly five years since the start of the ISIL-conflict and over a year since its official end, 1.8 million Iraqis remain internally displaced, with almost half of them in displacement for more than three years. As the rate of return slowed in 2018,...
Assessing Water Shortage-Induced Displacement in Central Iraq
April 4, 2019
The Assessing Water Shortage-Induced Displacement in Qadissiya, Najaf, Babylon, Wassit and Kerbala brief report provides updated information on the locations in Central Iraq affected by water scarcity as well as water-induced displacement movements ...
Assessing Water Shortage-Induced Displacement in Southern Iraq
April 4, 2019
The Assessing Water Shortage-Induced Displacement in Missan, Muthanna, Thi-Qar and Basra brief report provides updated information on the locations in Southern Iraq affected by water scarcity as well as water-induced displacement movements to and fr...
Access to Durable Solutions Among IDPs in Iraq: Three Years in Displacement
February 12, 2019
IOM Iraq, in partnership with Georgetown University (Washington DC, the United States), has been implementing a Longitudinal Study on Durable Solutions for IDPs in Iraq since 2015, to deepen the understanding of durable solutions to internal displac...
Integrated Location Assessment (ILA) III
December 1, 2018
The Integrated Location Assessment – Round III completed from 6 March to 6 May 2018, provides an in-depth look into both displacement and return movements in Iraq, putting a special focus on profiling the locations these groups live in and the socia...
Categorizing Protracted Displacement in Iraq
November 20, 2018
As the ISIL conflict ceased across Iraq, conflict-affected areas in the country experienced an uptick in returns of their internally displaced populations. The pace of this return, however, appears to be slowing, leaving the populations who still re...
Iraq Displacement Crisis 2014-17
November 8, 2018
The study provides an overview of the full crisis throughout its phases – starting in December 2013 with the battle for Fallujah in Anbar, to Prime Minister Al Abadi declaring victory over ISIL in December 2017 – as well as detailed information on l...
Integrated Location Assessment II; Thematic Overview and Governorates Profiles
January 31, 2018
IOM, the UN Migration Agency, released a new study, which shows that 90 per cent of displaced Iraqis are determined to return home. This is similar to the long-term intentions recorded in 2016. More than 1.3 million internally displaced persons ...
Mosul Crisis
August 11, 2017
The IOM Iraq Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) has published its latest in-depth report: Mosul Crisis: Population Movement Analysis, tabulating the chronological population movements – especially displacement and returns – that have occurred in nor...
Obstacles to Return in Retaken Areas of Iraq
July 31, 2017
The Obstacles to Return in Retaken Areas of Iraq delves into the principal push and pull factors limiting the willingness of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to return to their place of origin. The qualitative and quantitative data collection ...
Access to Durable Solutions Among IDPs in Iraq
June 5, 2017
This longitudinal study by IOM Iraq and Georgetown University identifies the ways in which displaced Iraqis experience displacement, adapt to their circumstances, and create durable solutions. Through surveys of about 4,000 Iraqi families displac...
Integrated Location Assessment I; Thematic Overview and Governorates Profiles
May 28, 2017
The Integrated Location Assessment (ILA) is IOM Iraq’s first nationwide attempt to simultaneously analyse both displacement and return movements of conflict-affected people. Focusing on both populations enables identification of overarching trends o...