TASK FORCE ON POPULATION MOVEMENT | TFPM 9th Report Executive Summary May 2016 KEY STATISTICS – DISPLACEMENT AND RETURN the needs of the host communities to alleviate the pressures associated with ongoing displacement and return. CONFLICT RELATED: The 9th report affirms a population of concern, in connection with the ongoing conflict, of 2,818,072 individuals. This is composed of 2,053,093 DISPLACEMENT DYNAMICS IDPs who remain in a situation of displacement across 21 governorates, mainly in An analysis of the trends suggests that the displacement dynamic in Yemen is Taizz, Hajjah, Sana’a, and 764,979 IDPs who have been tracked as having returned complex and, in certain circumstances, can be fluid. Displacement often takes place to or within 19 governorates, mainly in Aden, Amanat Al Asimah and Lahj. rapidly following events with some cases of early return seeming to follow any improvement or lull in the situation. In addition, longer displacement has been th NATURAL DISASTER RELATED: The 9 report presents figures on displaced and identified - over two out of three IDPs have now been displaced for a period of 10 returnee populations in relation to displacement due to natural disasters, namely months or more. the two cyclones that made landfall in November, 2015 and the flash flooding in April, 2016. 27,024 individuals remain in displacement owing to natural events As displacement trends are a result of the volatile political and security climate, IDP across 12 governorates with 33,793 returnees across 8 governorates. movements continue to be complex while return cannot necessarily be seen as durable. NEEDS OF IDPS AND IDP RETURNEES IDP returnees should be considered to remain within the displacement cycle as long The needs of IDPs, returnees, whether conflict or disaster related, and by extension as they have not achieved a sustainable reintegration (including voluntary return) members of the non-displaced host community remain high. Indicative data as evidenced by their persistently high needs. For these reasons, IDP returnees collected by the TFPM at the community level through key informants (KI) show without a durable solution should be considered in need of continued assistance. that there are high needs for basic items and services. Amongst IDPs, the top three needs include food (49%), drinking water (20%) and SYSTEMATISATION OF DATA COLLECTION ACROSS YEMEN shelter (9%). Dedicated displacement tracking is now being conducted throughout Yemen with the full implementation of the IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) and the Amongst IDP returnees, the top three needs include food (37%), access to income UNHCR Population Movement Tracking (PMT) system, which is being implemented (13%) and shelter (3%). in partnership with the Yemen Women’s Union (YWU). With respect to shelter, the majority of IDPs are in hosted situations with relatives As a result of this development it is now possible to provide a national picture of or non-relatives (60%), which indicates the burden on non-displaced communities displacement and return populations at the village or neighborhood level, with who are caring for these IDPs. both types of movement of the displacement cycle captured separately for conflict induced and disaster-driven displacement. Given the foregoing, there is an apparent need to address not only the needs of IDPs but also those of IDP returnees to ensure their sustainable return, as well as 1 INTRODUCTION operational life cycle of the TFPM. This community level information was provided This is the 9th report of the Task Force on Population Movement (TFPM), which is a technical working group of the Yemen Protection Cluster. The report details the latest snapshot on displacement and return in Yemen providing indicative findings related to shelter, main needs and displacement/return trends. The 9th report marks a significant shift to dedicated tracking of displaced or returnee populations by the TFPM. Data collected through dedicated displacement tracking in southern Yemen has been included since the 6th report through the operation of the IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM). UNHCR’s Population Movement Tracking (PMT) system has been implemented in 10 northern governorates for the first time. The activity was launched in April 2016 and is being implemented by the Yemen Women’s Union (YWU) in partnership with UNHCR. The DTM and PMT, although separate systems of IOM and UNHCR respectively, employ the same methodology and use the same assessment forms. For this reason, the data collected through each system is entirely compatible. Despite this more direct and consistent collection of data, the entire 8th report data for Al Hudaydah and some data for Sa’ada had to be carried-over into the 9th report. During April it was not possible to conduct PMT in Al Hudaydah owing to operational challenges1. In Sa’ada, PMT teams encountered similar challenges but were still able to implement the activity in 9 of the 15 districts of Sa’ada. Therefore the TFPM decided to carry-over data from the 8th report for locations not covered by PMT for the 9th report. In total, the data carried-over accounts for 11% of the total data on conflict related displacement reported in the 9th report. The 9th report identifies 9,282 unique locations that host IDP populations through interviews with KI from an extensive network developed and maintained over the 1 These obstacles have now been overcome and the PMT commenced in Al Hudaydah in May. This data will feed into the 10th report. 2 YEMEN CONFICT DISPLACEMENT MAP3 MAP 1: DISTRIBUTION OF IDP HOUSEHOLDS BY LOCATION OF DISPLACEMENT 3 During the reporting period, dedicated displacement tracking was not possible in Al constraints to the operation of dedicated displacement tracking has meant that the longitude Hudaydah and some areas in Sa’ada owing to operational challenges and therefore data is only and latitude of 2,823 locations could not be captured and so are not mapped. These locations available at the district level in these areas and cannot be mapped to the location. These host 139,529 IDPs 3 DISPLACEMENT OVERVIEW * A correction in the data for Hajjah has been made since the 8th report. The data available at time indicated a family size of 6 individuals per household. In the 9th report cycle the average family size that emerged is 4.8. This explains the anomalous difference in the HH number between the reports. Conflict IDPs Disaster IDPs Conflict Returnees Disaster Returnees 8th report 9th report 8th & 9th difference 9th report 9th report 9th report Governorate HHs Ind HHs Ind HHs Ind HHs Ind HHs Ind HHs Ind Abyan 3,858 23,148 3,206 19,236 -652 -3,912 0 0 1,703 10,218 0 0 Aden 4,261 25,566 5,178 31,068 917 5,502 0 0 50,259 301,554 0 0 AlBayda 5,541 33,246 6,052 36,312 511 3,066 0 0 561 3,366 0 0 AlDhalee 4,609 27,654 4,422 26,532 -187 -1,122 0 0 4,970 29,820 0 0 AlHudaydah 18,974 113,488 18,977 113,862 4 374 0 0 0 0 0 0 AlJawf 5,559 33,354 6,963 41,778 1,404 8,424 0 0 962 5,772 0 0 AlMaharah 313 1,878 444 2,664 131 786 923 5,538 0 0 0 0 AlMahwit 8,265 49,588 6,650 38,837 -1,615 -10,751 78 468 125 641 0 0 AmanatAlAsimah 32,377 211,965 24,370 137,302 -8,007 -74,663 3 18 34,640 178,841 0 0 Amran 46,231 295,620 16,765 102,155 -29,466 -193,465 1,964 11,784 1,653 10,034 128 781 Dhamar 19,705 118,477 14,870 80,858 -4,835 -37,619 2 12 1,668 10,292 6 36 Hadramaut 633 3,798 119 714 -514 -3,084 55 330 182 1,092 4,419 26,514 Hajjah* 60,894 367,007 76,205 364,395 15,311 -2,612 810 4,860 7,549 48,397 15 90 Ibb 18,564 111,384 18,390 110,340 -174 -1,044 0 0 359 2,154 0 0 Lahj 8,811 52,866 9,284 55,704 473 2,838 0 0 10,609 63,654 0 0 Marib 15,676 95,869 4,127 24,440 -11,549 -71,429 4 24 3,499 20,662 3 18 Raymah 7,186 43,074 5,334 31,136 -1,852 -11,938 64 384 92 521 0 0 Saada 41,045 245,897 24,233 145,614 -16,812 -100,283 0 0 1,019 6,938 0 0 Sanaa 45,039 272,589 24,473 158,126 -20,566 -114,463 76 456 352 2,065 5 30 Shabwah 1,419 8,514 2,262 13,572 843 5,058 218 1,308 3,776 22,656 482 2,892 Soqotra 0 0 0 0 0 0 307 1,842 0 0 572 3,432 Taiz 103,489 620,934 86,408 518,448 -17,081 -102,486 0 0 7,717 46,302 0 0 Total 452,449 2,755,916 358,732 2,053,093 -93,717 -702,823 4,504 27,024 131,695 764,979 5,630 33,793 ** ** (blank) represents the proportion of responses that were missing. 4 SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS changed situation with hostilities now markedly lower in the north than during 6 previous times and may be linked to the cessation of hostiles that was declared on 7 10 April 2016 ahead of peace talks to be conducted in Kuwait . Nevertheless, this Despite efforts for a political transition in Yemen over recent years, the situation in remains an assumption that needs to be further explored.