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SCOPE AND BACKGROUND
The report presents an explanatory analysis of survey-based data, reflecting the socio-economic situations of forcibly displaced and stateless people across 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The data is sourced from UNHCR’s Results Monitoring Surveys (RMS),1 a householdlevel survey tool that incorporates standardized questionnaire modules aligned with international standards where applicable, while also being adapted in certain instances to meet UNHCR’s specific contexts. The report offers evidence for enhanced advocacy and programming by exploring relationships between indicators within four thematic areas, covering legal status, social environment, basic needs and livelihoods. It further leverages the sustainable development goal (SDG) indicators to conduct comparative analysis between forcibly displaced and stateless people and nationals in the countries.
In 2021, UNHCR introduced the Global Results Framework to aggregate, analyze and report results, including core indicators for four impact and 16 outcome areas at impact, outcome and output levels. Out of those core indicators, UNHCR uses the RMS, a global standard tool to consistently measure the impact and outcome of its contributions to the expected changes across 23 core indicators that cover legal rights, well-being and living standards amongst others.
Between September 2022 and August 2024,2 UNHCR conducted 13 RMS exercises in 11 countries in Asia and the Pacific, including: Bangladesh, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and the Republic of Korea. The RMS provided representative results for 3.8 million forcibly displaced and stateless people, including 1.9 million refugees and asylum-seekers, 1.9 million internally displaced people (IDPs) and IDP returnees, 1.7 million stateless people and people at risk of statelessness. The targeted populations constitute nearly a quarter of total populations UNHCR protects and/or assists in the region, the rest are not covered so far due to operational and situational constraints.
In Bangladesh, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Malaysia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and the Republic of Korea, refugees and asylum-seekers were surveyed. In India, only refugees and asylum-seekers registered with UNHCR were interviewed. In Papua New Guinea, data collection was limited to displaced West Papuan (Indonesian) refugees only, and focused on two locations: the capital, Port Moresby, and the government-endorsed settlement site at Iowara in Western Province.3 In Myanmar, the survey included IDPs4 (most of whom were not from the Rohingya population), IDP returnees, non-displaced stateless Rohingya and host communities. In the Philippines, the survey was extended to the Sama Bajau population, a group at risk of statelessness and reported in UNHCR’s official population statistics as “others of concern”.