In 2018, the Government of South Sudan undertook a process to domesticate the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention), which culminated in “The Protection and Assistance to Internally...
Globally, internal displacements continue to rise rapidly on an annual basis. The 2019 annual report prepared by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) indicates that in 2019, conflict and disasters triggered a total of 33.4 million new displacements...
Pastoral communities in the Doolo zone of the Somali region of Ethiopia refer to the 2015 to 2017 drought as Af-gudhiya, which means “nothing to put in your mouth”. The drought was the worst in living memory and triggered the displacement of more than 300,000...
Following decades of civil war, a comprehensive peace agreement and the subsequent independence of South Sudan in 2011 prompted as many as two million refugees to return to the world’s youngest country. Many, however, were displaced again when internal conflict...
Data gaps can be closed by standardized socioeconomic micro-data collection and analysis as carried out for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan. Forced displacement has risen worldwide, and efforts have...