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INTRODUCTION
This report on Anbar Governorate is the third round of the project aimed at assessing progress toward durable solutions to displacement for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees in the governorates with the largest shares of displaced populations in Iraq.
The goal is to understand where IDPs and returnees stand seven years after the end of the 2014-2017 crisis and in which aspects they are still struggling compared to the population who never left their location of origin (‘stayees’). In this respect this project contributes to a broader discussion and to the Action Agenda around measuring progress toward solutions – and determining the end of displacement – which aims at operationalizing the eight criteria of the Framework for Durable Solutions produced by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) and informing targeted interventions in key areas of concern.
The analysis of this project builds on the information and knowledge gained by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) about the 2014-2017 crisis. IOM Iraq has been tracking and monitoring IDP stock figures as early as December 2014 through the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM). The collection of returnee stock figures began in April 2015, although returnee stock figures have been retroactively reported since October 2014. IOM Iraq also uses the Displacement Index39 and Return Index40 as tools to monitor the living conditions of the IDP and returnee populations at the location level across key sectors, such as livelihoods, housing, services, safety, social cohesion and inclusiveness. Since 2015, IOM Iraq and Georgetown University implemented a longitudinal study, Access to Durable Solutions in Iraq, to understand how IDPs take steps to build lasting durable solutions. The study has regularly surveyed non-camp IDP families since their displacement in 2014-2015, including some families who managed to return to their area of origin since 2017. Since 2019, IOM Iraq has been monitoring protracted and urban displacement in the main districts of origin and displacement to provide a contextualized categorization and inform planning and development of durable solutions strategies.
The analytical framework for this pilot was developed according to the IASC Framework for Durable Solutions and the recommendations provided by the Expert Group on Refugee, IDP and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS)/UN Statistics Division (UNSD) on IDP statistics and composite measures for progress toward durable solutions and overcoming key displacement-related vulnerabilities. All indicators selected for the composite measure were selected from the Interagency Indicator Library and, as such, they align with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.