Crisis Prevention and Recovery

IDP Profiling Study from Uganda (2005)

As part of UNDP Uganda’s support to the Government of Uganda in implementing the IDP policy, the IDP Profiling Study was commissioned to address a critical information gap with regard to social profiles of IDPs. This information can be used to inform the return and recovery planning process and the implementation of the IDP policy in general. Some of the findings of this study raise intriguing questions and have generated interesting debates on camp management, plans for decongestion, return and reintegration, such as:

1. IDPs have not moved far from their homes: 66% live in the same sub-county as they were born and only 5% originate from another district than they currently live.
2. Conditions for willingness to move if a peace agreement is reached: one third will move with no assistance, one third will move if assistance is given while another third will remain in the camps.
3. Victims of Crime: 14% of all households have members that were victims of crime in the month that the survey was carried out (May 2005) and its estimated that around 1500 people were murdered in that same month.

(shared by Rose Ssebatindira)