Sudan Displacement Data - Returnees [IOM DTM]

Mobility Tracking Round six identified a total number of 1,644,883 returnees including: • 1,302,938 permanent returnees from internal displacement, • 32,221 seasonal returnees, • 309,724 returnees from abroad.

Mobility Tracking Round Five identified a total number of 1,384,720 returnees including: • 1,181,419 permanent returnees from internal displacement, • 55,045 seasonal returnees, • 148,256 returnees from abroad

Geographically, Round Four covers 1,742 locations in total – 639 locations in North Darfur, 295 locations in South Kordofan, 237 locations in West Kordofan, 123 locations in South Darfur, 111 locations in West Darfur, 79 locations in Blue Nile, 78 locations in Central Darfur, 48 locations in North Kordofan, 37 locations in Gedaref, 36 locations in East Darfur, 34 in Red Sea State, and 25 locations in Kassala.

Mobility Tracking Round Four identified 1,172,567 permanent returnees from internal displacement, 55,045 seasonal returnees, and 148,106 returnees from abroad.

Mobility Tracking Round Three started in April 2021 with the expansion of DTM operations to North Kordofan state. Field teams revisited locations covered in Round One and Two, as well as new locations in Blue Nile state which were not covered in the previous rounds. In Round Three, enumerators visited locations across a total of 11 states.

Data collection was carried out over a two-month period, concluding in late June, and followed by data cleaning and verification to produce the third round of results. Key informants included community leaders, government representatives, NGO and humanitarian aid workers, religious leaders and IDP representatives.

Geographically, Round Three covers 1,538 locations in total – 704 locations in North Darfur, 232 locations in South Kordofan, 178 locations in West Kordofan, 102 locations in West Darfur, 100 locations in South Darfur, 74 locations in Central Darfur, 57 locations in Blue Nile, 37 locations in North Kordofan, 23 locations in East Darfur, 17 locations in Gedaref and 14 locations in Kassala.

Mobility Tracking Round Three identified 942,299 permanent returnees from internal displacement.

117,268 households & 551,331 individuals returned. The dataset is gender and age dis-aggregated with return locations.