Somalia Displacement - [IDPs, Returnees] - Baseline Assessment [IOM DTM]

DTM Somalia has mapped around 3,262,080 IDPs, 96,277 returnees, and 9,455,907 residents in 12,090 assessed locations. IDPs were present in 42 percent of locations assessed (5,038 locations) and returnees were present in 3 percent of assessed locations (405 locations). Conflict and Natural Disaster (human-enhanced) are the primary reasons for displacement, each accounting for 41 percent.

In February and March 2023, IOM DTM implemented its second round of Baseline 2 exercise in three states of Somalia: Jubaland, Hirshabelle, and South West States. Baseline 2, an area based assessment, is the second step of Mobility Tracking implemented at settlement level and aims to quantify presence of population categories. This dataset covers 5,534 settlements (villages, neighborhoods or IDP sites) and records around 4,2 million residents, 1,2 million IDPs and 122,000 returnees. The results include demographic, accessibility and reasons for displacement information, as well as the Operational Zones (OPZ) established by OCHA. These zones are designed to support sub-district response and reporting efforts.

Between February 2020 and January 2022, IOM DTM implemented its first round of Baseline 2 exercise in Somalia. Baseline 2, an area-based assessment, is the second step of Mobility Tracking implemented at settlement level and aims to quantify presence of population categories. This Baseline 2 round 1 covered 9,517 settlements in 17 regions. These settlements correspond to 6,029 villages, 467 neighbourhoods, 432 rural IDP sites, and 2,589 urban IDP sites. Among the total of 4,574,256 IDPs reported, 3,664,282 reside in IDP sites and 909,974 live in the host communities. Regarding the returnee’s population, 223,514 were returnees from abroad and 731,900 were previous IDPs (returnees from internal displacement).