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IDPs Return and Reintegration
Implementation Unit
IDPs
Demolished Camps
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demolished camps. These camps are closing.
UPDATES
(Some Updates are not available and will be posted as soon as they made
available)
Fourteen years of civil war in Liberia
have resulted in a severe displacement crisis, both within and across
the country’s borders. Some two years on from the end of hostilities,
the deployment of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and the inauguration
of the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL).
Before the ongoing movement started,
approximately 450,000 Liberians were internally displaced. An estimated
280,000 IDPs lived in 24 formal camps where, due to funding constraints,
they were receiving some protection and decreasing levels of food and
other assistance from the humanitarian community. An additional 20,000
IDPs lived in spontaneous settlements or informal camps where they
received minimal levels of assistance. See below table of the various
categories
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Approximate IDP
Numbers in Liberia |
| Formal Camps |
280,000 |
| Spontaneous Settlements |
20,000 |
| Host Communities |
150,000 |
| Total |
450,000 |
In addition to those in formal camps and
spontaneous settlements, a further 150,000 IDPs were believed to be
living in host communities around the country. Since they had not been
registered by UN agencies, they did not receive direct protection or
assistance from the international community and were not included within
the overall caseload for facilitated return.
Early 2004, it was decided that as part
of the wider reconciliation process within the Comprehensive Peace
Agreement (CPA) signed in Accra in August 2003; it was desirable to
return most of the estimated 450,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
to their counties of origin. It is widely believed that this would
foster the peace and reconciliation process in Liberia.
At the end of the Disarmament,
Demobilization, Reintegration and Rehabilitation (DDRR) process in
October 2004, the return of IDPs started on the 8th of
November 2004. It is notable that all the counties in Liberia have now
been declared ready to receive IDPs. To date, over 85,000 IDPs have
been provided with humanitarian assistance and assisted to restart their
lives. This has allowed the humanitarian community to provide the IDPs
with two categories of assistance i.e. individual assistance and
community-based assistance. The first category involves providing food,
non-food items and transport allowance. The second category of
assistance involves provision of community-based assistance in the form
of tools, seeds etc. The IDP Implementation Unit has been working with
partners within the humanitarian community to ensure that the process is
both voluntary and humane.
Since the Humanitarian and Relief
Coordinator’s office does not have resources of its own, it has to relay
on the goodwill of the humanitarian community in Liberia for material
assistance to the IDPs as well as the means to implement programmes in
support of the IDPs. So far, WFP, UNHCR, IOM, Norwegian Refugee Council
among others have made large contributions.
IDP
Return Survey COMPLETED
The
IDP Return Survey has been completed in the 20 official IDP camps in Montserrado
and Bong Counties.
A survey being conducted in Unification Town Camp
(To view more photos, click on photo)
PRELIMINARY
REPORT
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21-May-04 |
IDP Retun Survey - Preliminary Report
(472 KB pdf) |
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21-May-04 |
Appendices
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1.7 MB pdf) |
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The Access
Database is available on CD-Rom at the HIC-Liberia Office. This
access database contains raw data from the IDP Return Survey.
Names of IDPs have been removed from the tblIDPs table of the
database. The tables prefixed with ‘output_’ are summary tables
produced from the raw data. Each of these output tables
corresponds to a PDF report contained on this CD-ROM.
Information Products by Humanitarian Information Center for
Liberia
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The purpose of the IDP Return Survey is to ascertain places
of origin, planned places for return, vulnerabilities and protection
information for IDP population living in the camps in Montserrado
and Bong Counties. The information resulting from this survey will
assist agencies working with IDP populations and host/returning
communities to better meet the needs of IDPs and prepare for their
return and reintegration.
The survey began on April 14 and was
completed on April 29 in the following 20 camps:
1) Sinje 3 11) Siegbeh
2) Ricks Institute 12) Wilson Corner
3) Jahtondo 13) Perry
4) Plumkor 14) Conneh/Kakata
5) New Land
15) Salala
6) Mt. Barclay
16) Tumutu
7) Fendell
17) E. J. Yancy
8) Unification Town
18) Maimu 1
9) Soul Clinic
19) Maimu 2
10) Blamasse
20) Maimu 3
The IDP Return Survey was initiated
by the IDP Committee and implemented thru a coordinated effort
between OCHA and UNHCR. The enumerators were recruited from Local
NGOs, International NGOs and governmental organizations. The
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survey teams came from:
Montserrado
Survey Teams
Ministry of
Planning
Premier
Urgence
Foundation for
International Dignity (FIND)
Aid for the
Needy Development Program (ANDP)
Smile Africa
Liberia NGOs
Network (LINNK)
Human Rights
Group to Save Humanity (HRGSH)
ARC
Bong County Survey Teams
ACRICODA
Oxfam
Concern
Phebe
Hospital
Phebe
Community Lutheran School
JOLPAL
Peace and
Recreation Center Under the Tree (UTT)
Liberian United
Women for Empowerment (LUWE)
LWF/WS
CCC
Save the
Children
LEAF
LRRRC
Each team is
to be commended for their excellent work. They conducted the survey
under difficult conditions and managed to maintain a positive
attitude and good work ethic throughout the of the
survey. This is a definite tribute to the quality of these
organizations that they have such outstanding staff.
The staff of the Norwegian Refugee
Council (NRC) provided continuous and vital support during every
phase of the operation, from preliminary planning, to assisting
in the field, to helping facilitate payment of enumerators.
Without their contribution this project would not have been
successful. Thank you NRC!
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