RETURNEE MONITORING AND NEEDS ASSESSMENTS TABULATION REPORT 1000 Cumulative - families 900 By month - families 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 2/2006 3/2006 4/2006 6/2006 7/2006 8/2006 9/2006 1/2007 2/2007 3/2007 4/2007 5/2007 6/2007 7/2007 8/2007 9/2007 1/2008 2/2008 3/2008 10/2006 11/2006 12/2006 10/2007 11/2007 12/2007 RETURNEE MONITORING AND NEEDS ASSESSMENTS - Locations, Numbers, Demographic and Socio-Economic Characteristics, Living Conditions, and Needs - Ministry of Displacement and Migration of Iraq & International Organization for Migration Baghdad, March 2008 TABULATION REPORT, Returnee Monitoring And Needs Assessments, IOM / MoDM, Baghdad, March 2008 2 Table of contents Introduction and Methodology of Returnee Monitoring and Needs Assessments.....................................................................4 Assessed (interviewed) returnee families by LOCATION ...................................................................................................5 Table 1: Number of returnee families interviewed by location (absolute numbers) .............................................................5 Table 2: Number of returnee families interviewed by date of return and current location (percentages).............................6 Chart 1: Cumulative number of Returnee families per month ..............................................................................................7 Chart 2: Trend of return - Returnee families per month........................................................................................................7 Table 3: Number of returnee from abroad families interviewed by date of return and current location (absolute numbers)7 Table 4: Returnee families by current location and displacement location (absolute numbers) ...........................................8 Chart 3: Returnee families by actual site of return (original house / original neighborhood) by governorate – percentages8 Table 5: Returnee families by actual site of return (original house / original neighborhood) by location (absolute numbers) ...............................................................................................................................................................................9 DEMOGRAPHIC and SOCIO ECONOMIC characteristics of assessed (interviewed) returnee population..............10 Table 6: Detailed age and sex breakdown of total assessed population (structure by age group, sex and total).................10 Chart 4: Major age groups ..................................................................................................................................................10 Table 7: Total assessed population by major age groups by location .................................................................................11 Table 9: Age and sex of heads of household (percentages by age).....................................................................................12 Chart 5: Sex of Heads of the households ............................................................................................................................12 Table 10: Heads of household by employment / activity status by location (percentages).................................................13 Table 12: Heads of household by employment / activity status (percentages) ...................................................................14 Chart 6: Heads of household by sex and unemployment rate of total.................................................................................14 Table 13: Religious breakdown of interviewed returnee families by location (absolute numbers) ....................................15 Return REASONS, PROPERTY status and HOUSING ..................................................................................................16 Table 14: Return reasons of interviewed families by location (percentages)......................................................................16 Table 15: Status of Non-movable property of interviewed returnee families by location (percentages) ............................17 Table 16: Status of movable property of interviewed returnee families by location (percentages) ....................................18 Table 17: Housing condition of interviewed families by location (percentages)................................................................19 Chart 7: Housing condition.................................................................................................................................................19 ACCESS to organized SUPPORT........................................................................................................................................20 Table 18: Access to PDS (public distribution system) by interviewed families by location (percentages) ........................20 Table 19: Number of interviewed families that registered and received returnee grant by location (absolute numbers) ...21 Table 20: Number of interviewed families that registered by authorities and received returnee grant by location (percentages).......................................................................................................................................................................22 Access to SCHOOL................................................................................................................................................................23 Table 21: Do all your school age children attend school? (School age 6 to 15 years old – primary & intermediate) by location (total numbers and percentages)............................................................................................................................23 Access to HEALTH...........................................................................................................................................................24 Table 22: Number of interviewed families according access to health care by location (percentages) ..............................24 Do you FEEL SAFE?........................................................................................................................................................25 Table 20: Do you feel safe? Number of interviewed families by location..........................................................................25 NEEDS...............................................................................................................................................................................26 Table 21: Needs of returnee families (each presented as percentage of total families).......................................................26 Chart 8: Most frequently stated needs by interviewed returnee families ............................................................................26 ANNEX 1 - Number of returnees and their locations.........................................................................................................27 Table 1a . Number of returnee locations per governorate and estimated total returnee families / population based on IOM / MoDM returnee monitoring and needs assessments.........................................................................................................27 Map 1a: IDPs by district and returnee locations – IDP and Returnee monitoring ..............................................................27 ANNEX 2 – Returnee Household interview form...................................................................................................................32 TABULATION REPORT, Returnee Monitoring And Needs Assessments, IOM / MoDM, Baghdad, March 2008 3 Introduction and Methodology of Returnee Monitoring and Needs Assessments In order to better target assistance and understand the returnee context, IOM, in cooperation with MoDM, has started Returnee Monitoring and Needs Assessments in Baghdad Governorate. In addition, IOM through its IDP Monitoring network, expanded the Returnee monitoring to other governorates in Iraq. These assessments allow IOM, MoDM and other organizations to prioritize areas of operation, plan emergency responses, and design long-term, durable solutions programs to assist Iraqis in their place of return. Current Tabulation Report presents detailed tables and statistics on 900 interviewed returnee families, from 15 December 2007 to 31 March 2008, all over Iraq. Of these, 635 were interviewed in Baghdad and 265 families in other governorates. (See Table 1) Based on available information from MoDM’s Returnee Support center, IOM and MoDM monitors’ field visits, UNHCR Rapid assessments (snapshot) and other sources, IOM maintains a list of locations with estimated numbers of returnee families. The location list contains the following information: Governorate, District, Sub- district, Neighbourhood/place, Longitude, Latitude, Number of returnees from within Iraq, Number of returnees from abroad and source of information. Till end of March 2008, a total of 215 locations with 13,030* returnee families (estimated 78,180 individuals) were identified. Of them 2,177 (17%) are returnee from abroad and the other 10,853 (83%) are returnee families from internal displacement in Iraq. (See ANNEX 1). IOM and MoDM encourage other organisations to provide information on returnee locations in Iraq. Once locations and numbers of returnees are identified, MoDM and IOM monitors make field visits to conduct interviews with individual returnee families. Monitors complete a Returnee Needs Assessment form. (See ANNEX 2). The form provides