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Afghanistan

DTM Afghanistan: Drought Response Situation Report - Herat (9 September - 12 October 2018)

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HIGHLIGHTS

3 Flow Monitoring Points (FMPs) at checkpoints on major routes connecting to Herat City at Armalek, Kamar Kulagh, and Chaharsoy Guzara

17,099 IDPs enumerated across all FMPs (inflow + outflow)

15,636 arriving IDPs displaced by drought (91% of all IDPs)

1,313 arriving IDPs displaced by conflict (8% of all IDPs)

14,696 arriving IDPs’ intended destination is Injil district (86%), mainly in informal settlements in Shedaye

10,964 arriving IDPs are from Badghis province (64%)

13,052 arriving IDPs intend to live in tents or in the open air (77%)

11,228 arriving IDPs do not intend to return home (66%)

In response to critical levels of internal displacement, caused by what is being described as the worst drought in Afghanistan in decades, IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) monitors inflows of drought-affected IDPs arriving in Herat City, identifying and registering only the newly arriving IDP caseload, and reports/ shares the information with humanitarian partners to facilitate onward registration of newly arriving IDPs into humanitarian assistance programmes. DTM also tracks the outflow of IDPs returning to their places of origin or into secondary displacement.

Over the reporting period, 3 flow monitoring points (FMPs) have been discontinued (Shedaye, Band Pashtun and Karokh), due to overwhelming numbers of opportunistic, long-term IDPs and host communities arriving at FMPs, attempting to take advantage of presumed distributions. Currently, 3 strategically placed FMPs remain, where DTM teams monitor incoming and outgoing flows of IDPs, identify and register drought-affected IDP families, and provide newly arriving families with IDP Cards to facilitate their registration for humanitarian assistance.