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DROUGHT RESPONSE ▪ SITUATION REPORT HERAT + BADGHIS ▪ 26 APRIL 2019 2 ORIGIN & DESTINATION Newly-Arrived Idps | Province of Origin DROUGHT RESPONSE SITUATION REPORT HERAT + BADGHIS After the cold rains and floods of early spring, a sunny day brings relief and hope, illuminating 26 . APR . 2019 the tidy, organized living conditions in Baghlar IDP settlement in Badghis province. © IOM 2019 Through Flow Monitoring Points (FMPs) installed on major routes connecting to Herat City, IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) has been monitoring inflows of drought-affected HIGHLIGHTS · HERAT IDPs, since 9 September 2018. DTM identifies and registers only The results presented in this report are cumulative from 9 newly arriving IDPs, provides IDP Cards to registered families, September 2018, when DTM commenced flow monitoring in Herat. and shares the information with World Food Programme and humanitarian partners to facilitate onward registration of newly- 3 Flow Monitoring Points (FMPs) arriving IDPs into humanitarian assistance programmes. DTM at Armalek, Rabat Sangi, and Chaharsoy Guzara also tracks the outflow of IDPs from Herat City returning to their places of origin or into secondary displacement. 182 (34 families) newly-arrived IDPs registered from 13 Apr – 26 Apr WEEKLY TRENDS 38,683 (8,069 families) Inflows of newly-arrived IDPs peaked at over 1,100 families per IDPs registered to date (inflow + outflow) week in the week of 28 September and 5 October. There was a sharp, 74% decrease from 5 to 19 October. Due to funding 4.8 limitations, DTM discontinued activities from 1 to 15 November, average family size after which inflows remained relatively low at an average 149 (7,003 families) families per week. However, after 4 January, inflows have steadily 32,515 decreased to the present inflow of only 34 newly arrived IDP arriving IDPs displaced by drought (84.1% of all IDPs) families in the last two weeks, due to conflict and flood. 5,657 (972 families) Newly Arrived IDP Families | Weekly Trends arriving IDPs displaced by conflict (14.6% of all IDPs) 1,400 1,160 (6,472 families) 1,112 29,574 1,200 arriving IDPs’ intended destination is Injil district (77%) 1,000 755 800 591 20,220 (4,686 families) 600 456 401 Families 371 arriving IDPs are from Badghis province (52.6%) 331 309 300 290 283 400 268 197 191 169 130 102 94 93 72 59 47 40 36 35 29 27 26 18 200 16 16 23,825 (5,423 families) 0 arriving IDPs intend to live in tents or in the open air (62%) 1/4/2019 2/1/2019 2/8/2019 4/5/2019 3/1/2019 3/8/2019 1/11/2019 1/18/2019 1/25/2019 9/14/2018 9/21/2018 9/28/2018 10/5/2018 12/7/2018 2/15/2019 2/22/2019 3/15/2019 3/22/2019 3/29/2019 4/12/2019 4/19/2019 4/26/2019 (45 families) 10/12/2018 10/19/2018 10/26/2018 10/31/2018 11/16/2018 11/23/2018 11/30/2018 12/14/2018 12/21/2018 12/28/2018 224 Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr secondarily displaced or returned home (0.58%) Newly Arrived IDP Families | Weekly Trends by Province of Origin | Herat vs. Badghis 1,000 800 600 400 Families 200 0 2/1/2019 2/8/2019 3/1/2019 3/8/2019 4/5/2019 1/4/2019 2/15/2019 2/22/2019 3/15/2019 9/14/2018 9/21/2018 9/28/2018 10/5/2018 12/7/2018 1/18/2019 1/25/2019 3/22/2019 3/29/2019 4/12/2019 4/19/2019 4/26/2019 1/11/2019 10/12/2018 10/19/2018 12/14/2018 12/21/2018 12/28/2018 10/26/2018 10/31/2018 11/16/2018 11/23/2018 11/30/2018 Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr Badghis Herat For more information, please contact: [email protected] www.displacement.iom.int/afghanistan DTM DROUGHT RESPONSE ▪ SITUATION REPORT HERAT + BADGHIS ▪ 26 APRIL 2019 2 ORIGIN & DESTINATION Newly-Arrived IDPs | Province of Origin Badghis 20,220 Herat 15,531 Faryab 1,995 Farah 382 Ghor 202 Daykundi 45 Kandahar 43 Kunduz 17 Nimroz 10 Hilmand 7 Baghlan 4 Ghazni 3 0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 * currently active FMP; other FMPs were closed due to security concerns Kilometers Bala Pashtun Ghormach Qaysar 0 500 1,000 2,000 Murghab Almar Kot Turkmenistan BADGHIS FARYAB Kohistan Iran (Islamic Charsadra Republic of) Gulran Muqur Jawand Kushk Ab Kamari FMP Location Status Rabat Sangi Qala-e-Naw Qadis Kohsan &3 &3 Active FMP Kushk-e-Kuhna Feroz IDP In-Flow Armalek Koh Countries &3 Injil Karukh Province Chisht-e-Sharif District HERAT Hirat Obe Roads Chaharsoy Guzara &3Guzara Shahrak Trunk Ghoryan Pashtun Zindajan Primary Zarghun DoLayna Secondary Tolak District of Destination Farsi GHOR 6 - 50 51 - 250 Adraskan 251 - 1,000 Saghar Pasaband 1,001 - 10,000 Taywarah 10,001 - 29,574 District of Origin Shindand 2 - 50 Pur Baghran 51 - 250 FARAH Chaman 251 - 1,000 Bala HELMAND 1,001 - 3,000 Buluk Nawzad Khak-e-Safed Gulistan Kajaki 3,001 - 7,296 Qala-e-Kah Anar Dara Districts of Destination in Herat of newly-arrived IDPs Uzbekistan Tajikistan Kunduz Qurghan Jawzjan Kunduz Takhar Badakhshan Dawlat Balkh Abad Turkmenistan Shirin Khwaja Baghlan-e-Jadid Tagab Sabz Ghormach Almar Posh Samangan Pashtun Kot Sar-e-Pul Baghlan Bala Qaysar Murghab Faryab The vast majorityHe raoft registered IDPs wereBadg hdrought-induced,is Panjsher Nuristan Gulran Kushk-e-Kuhna Muqur hailed from Badghis province and were,Qa daccordingly,is registered Parwan Kushk Ab Kamari Jawand Kapisa Kohsan &3 Qala-e-Naw Bamyan Kunar at the Armalek FMP. The vast majority of IDPs (74%) Fehadroz no Laghman intention of returning Inhome,jil &3preferringCh isaht -epermanent-Sharif Komoveh to Kabul Zindajan Karukh Maidan Hirat Obe greener pastures and putting&3 pressure onS hreceivingahrak districts, Wardak Nangarhar Ghoryan Guzara Pashtun Ghor Zarghun particularly Injil district, which is the intendedTolak destination for Ashtarlay Logar Farsi 88% of registered IDPs. Adraskan Daykundi Pasaband Saghar Taywarah Kiti Paktya Ghazni Khost Pur Shindand Kajran Farah Chaman Jaghuri Bala Uruzgan Anar Buluk Dara FlowP Maoknitsotrainng Points (FMPs) Qala-e-Kah Pushtrod Paktika &3 Active FMP Roads Farah Zabul Helmand Trunk Primary Secondary Zheray Kandahar Nad-e-Ali Maywand District of Origin Kang Kandahar 2 - 50 Iran (Islamic Nimroz 51 - 250 Republic of) 251 - 1,000 1,001 - 3,000 Daman Kilometers 3,001 - 7,296 Districts of Origin of newly-arrived IDPs in Herat City 0 1,350 2,700 5,400 DTM DROUGHT RESPONSE ▪ SITUATION REPORT HERAT + BADGHIS ▪ 26 APRIL 2019 3 SEX & AGE COMPOSITION SPECIFIC NEEDS Children and adolescents under the age of 18 represent 60% Shelter is a prevailing need of IDPs upon arrival to IDP settings. (23,101) of the newly arrived IDPs, among which 8,120 (21%) An alarming 23,825 (62%) of newly arrived IDPs intend to live in are under 5 years old. The male to female ratio is fairly even, tents or in the open air. with only 699 (1.8%) more females than males. Among the newly-arrived IDPs, there were 1,882 (5%) cases with specific needs registered to date. The most frequent cases are 840 with chronic illnesses, 301 pregnant or lactating women, 263 with critical medical conditions, and 206 physically disabled. The vast majority (33,451, 86.5%) of registered IDPs claimed to have no official identification documents. 5,187 IDPs (13.4%) had an Afghan tazkira available at the time of registration with DTM, although many families presented tazkiras when they registered with WFP’s food assistance and SCOPE card. Newly-Arrived IDPs | Intended Shelter 865 2% Own House 20 Newly-Arrived IDPs | Age & Sex 0.1% 11,898 Rented House 15,729 31% Relative’s House 41% 4%2% Non-Relative’s 2% 2% 20% Infant (< 1) Tent 19% 1,196 Child (1 – 4) 655 Open Air 32% 2% 3% Child (5 – 9) Don’t Know 41% Female Male Adolescent (10 – 17) 8,096 22% 21% Adult (18 – 59) 24% 14% Elderly (60 +) 18% All IDPs (In-Flow + Out-Flow) | Specific Needs Chronically Ill 2.17% 840 Pregnant 0.78%, 301 Age Group Female Male Total % of total Critical Medical Condition 0.68%, 263 Infant (< 1) 355 346 701 2% Physically Disabled 0.53%, 206 Child (1 – 4) 3,683 3,736 7,419 19% Single Head of Household 0.39%, 150 Mentally Disabled 0.26%, 102 Child (5 – 9) 4,254 4,478 8,732 23% Unacompannied Minors 0.03%, 13 Adolescent (10 – 17) 2,830 3,419 6,249 16% Single Females 0.02%, 7 Adult (18 – 59) 7,981 6,093 14,074 37% Deceased 0%, 0 Elderly (60 +) 476 808 1,284 3% 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 Grand Total 19,579 18,880 38,459 IDP families struggle to earn a living, like this widow and her daughters in the Feristan IDP settlement in Badghis, who earn only 50 afghanis ($0.64 USD) for each 7 kg of pistachios that they shell. © IOM 2019 DTM DROUGHT RESPONSE ▪ SITUATION REPORT HERAT + BADGHIS ▪ 26 APRIL 2019 4 RETURN INTENTIONS RETURN INTENTIONS AT TIME OF ARRIVAL IN HERAT Upon arrival in Herat City, overall, 60% (23,137) of newly -arriving Newly-Arrived IDPs | Return Intention IDPs express no intention of returning to their places of origin. IDPs who arrived in November, December, March and April were more likely to return home, than IDPs who arrived in other months. Yes 15,322 At the time of arrival, an overwhelming majority (82% or 31,597) 40% of IDPs indicated that they were undecided about when they will No return to their places of origin, with 15% (5,756) intending to 23,137 return within 4 to 6 months.
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