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Displacement
IDP Families: 278,051
Individuals: 1,668,306
Locations: 1,577
Displacement Tracking Matrix Highlights
As of 28 August 2014, just fewer than 1.7 million individuals have been displaced in Iraq since the beginning of 2014. Over two thirds of the displacement occurred in the last month with over 600,000 individuals being displaced in August.
IOM tracks this information via the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), an information management tool that gathers information about displaced populations and their conditions. The tool provides a continual, up-to-date snapshot of displacement sites and populations; however, access and security limitations must be considered alongside the massive, complex and fluid nature of the displacement observed in Iraq today.
The DTM identifies displaced populations through a process of verification, and a full DTM coverage after a large displacement as seen in the governorate of Dahuk cannot be immediately achieved. Aware of this coverage limitation in Dahuk and in coordination with the Kurdish Regional Office of Statistics (KRSO) of the Ministry of Planning, IOM DTM figures were reconciled with IDP figures gathered by a registration exercise undertaken by the KRSO. As a result of the close work with KRSO an increase of 26,733 IDP families (11,731 in Zakho district and 15,002 in Dahuk district) were calculated into the overall displacement figure for Iraq. The specific locations and needs of this additional population are to be verified and collected by the continuous DTM process in the coming weeks.
The DTM methodology is two-fold and contained within a continual cycle that ensures a reliable picture of displacement. IOM key informants include: community leaders, muktas, local authorities, and security forces. IOM works in close coordination with the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Ministry of Planning to come to a common understanding of displaced people across the three governorates of the KRG.