AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Mexico - Protection Monitoring 2023, H2

Mexico has seen a significant influx of individuals and groups engaged in human mobility, often using similar routes and means of transport for a variety of reasons. This diverse population includes asylum seekers, refugees, victims of human trafficking, unaccompanied and separated children, stateless persons, and migrants in vulnerable situations.
To better understand these dynamics, a protection monitoring initiative was conducted to identify trends, demographic profiles, and the protection and food security needs of people on the move. The collected data focused on the drivers of human mobility, the characteristics of individuals in transit, the risks encountered during their journeys, conditions in transit countries, as well as food security, child protection, and future movement intentions.


Tags: education, food security, health, livelihoods, needs assessment, nutrition, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Mexico - Protection Monitoring 2024, H1

Mexico has seen a significant influx of individuals and groups engaged in human mobility, often using similar routes and means of transport for a variety of reasons. This diverse population includes asylum seekers, refugees, victims of human trafficking, unaccompanied and separated children, stateless persons, and migrants in vulnerable situations.
To better understand these dynamics, a protection monitoring initiative was conducted to identify trends, demographic profiles, and the protection and food security needs of people on the move. The collected data focused on the drivers of human mobility, the characteristics of individuals in transit, the risks encountered during their journeys, conditions in transit countries, as well as food security, child protection, and future movement intentions.


Tags: education, food security, health, livelihoods, needs assessment, nutrition, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Bulgaria - Post-Distribution Monitoring of Cash-Based Interventions - 2023

The 2023 Post-Distribution Monitoring (PDM) of Cash-Based Interventions in Bulgaria was conducted to assess the outcomes of one-time cash assistance programs provided to vulnerable households registered under Temporary or International Protection. These programs included a one-time payment for protection and a one-time payment for winter support, with enrollment starting in August 2022. Data collection took place from March to May 2023 with 258 households through telephone interviews. The PDM captured feedback on demographics, cash utilization, accommodation, expenditure patterns, impact on livelihoods, and satisfaction with the program. The findings highlight the program's positive impact in alleviating financial burdens, improving living conditions, and moderately reducing stress levels, providing valuable insights for future program improvements.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Bulgaria - Post-Distribution Monitoring of Cash-Based Interventions - 2024

This dataset contains information from the Post-Distribution Monitoring (PDM) survey conducted by UNHCR to evaluate the outcomes of its cash-based interventions (CBI) in Bulgaria. The program, which transitioned from one-off assistance to a multi-transfer approach, provided financial aid to 7,178 individuals (3,054 households) between July 2023 and January 2024. Targeting vulnerable households, including those with disabilities, serious medical conditions, single parents, and older people without family support, the assistance aimed to meet basic needs and alleviate financial burdens. The PDM survey, conducted through remote telephone interviews with a randomized sample of 364 households in January-February 2024, assessed the effectiveness of the cash assistance program. Key findings indicate the assistance improved beneficiaries' living conditions, reduced financial pressures, and contributed to their overall well-being. The survey also identified operational challenges and opportunities for enhancing program delivery.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
South Sudan - Community-Based Assessment - 2024

The Community-Based Assessment (CBA) in South Sudan, 2024 evaluates the capacity of high-return locations in South Sudan to absorb additional populations. This assessment employed a mixed-methods approach, including quantitative household surveys, qualitative assessments, and infrastructure evaluations. Data collection was conducted between May and September 2024 through face-to-face interviews in selected payams across Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Eastern Equatoria, Central Equatoria, and Western Bahr el Ghazal. The dataset comprises anonymized household and infrastructure survey data, with stratified random sampling used to ensure representation across returnees, host communities, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and refugees. The study explores key humanitarian themes, including health, water sanitation and hygiene (WASH), education, and housing, land, and property (HLP). The collected data aims to inform operational planning, self-reliance programs, and service provision strategies for displaced and returning populations. The dataset provides valuable insights to support evidence-based decision-making and improve response strategies for communities affected by displacement in South Sudan.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, education, food security, gender-based violence-gbv, health, livelihoods, mental health, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Lebanon - Protection Monitoring - Q2 2023

UNHCR conducts protection monitoring on an ongoing basis to analyze protection trends and the risks that forcibly displaced and stateless persons are facing. Protection monitoring has also the purpose of identifying people who are in need for specific services, support, or information and refer them so that they can receive assistance accordingly to their needs.
UNHCR conducted at national level interviews with refugee households to elicit their feedback on the overall protection environment in Lebanon. The purpose of the collection was to use the feedback from refugees to inform UNHCR's advocacy and programmatic interventions with the aim of improving refugees' access to protection and essential services, assistance and information.

Tags: covid-19, health, livelihoods, needs assessment, protection, transportation
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Lebanon - Protection Monitoring - Q3 2023

UNHCR conducts protection monitoring on an ongoing basis to analyze protection trends and the risks that forcibly displaced and stateless persons are facing. Protection monitoring has also the purpose of identifying people who are in need for specific services, support, or information and refer them so that they can receive assistance accordingly to their needs.
UNHCR conducted at national level interviews with refugee households to elicit their feedback on the overall protection environment in Lebanon. The purpose of the collection was to use the feedback from refugees to inform UNHCR's advocacy and programmatic interventions with the aim of improving refugees' access to protection and essential services, assistance and information.

Tags: covid-19, health, livelihoods, needs assessment, protection, transportation
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Lebanon - Protection Monitoring - Q4 2023

UNHCR conducts protection monitoring on an ongoing basis to analyze protection trends and the risks that forcibly displaced and stateless persons are facing. Protection monitoring has also the purpose of identifying people who are in need for specific services, support, or information and refer them so that they can receive assistance accordingly to their needs.
UNHCR conducted at national level interviews with refugee households to elicit their feedback on the overall protection environment in Lebanon. The purpose of the collection was to use the feedback from refugees to inform UNHCR's advocacy and programmatic interventions with the aim of improving refugees' access to protection and essential services, assistance and information.

Tags: covid-19, health, livelihoods, needs assessment, protection, transportation
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Lebanon - Protection Monitoring - Q1 2024

UNHCR conducts protection monitoring on an ongoing basis to analyze protection trends and the risks that forcibly displaced and stateless persons are facing. Protection monitoring has also the purpose of identifying people who are in need for specific services, support, or information and refer them so that they can receive assistance accordingly to their needs.
UNHCR conducted at national level interviews with refugee households to elicit their feedback on the overall protection environment in Lebanon. The purpose of the collection was to use the feedback from refugees to inform UNHCR's advocacy and programmatic interventions with the aim of improving refugees' access to protection and essential services, assistance and information.

Tags: covid-19, health, livelihoods, needs assessment, protection, transportation
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Lebanon - Protection Monitoring - Q2 2024

UNHCR conducts protection monitoring on an ongoing basis to analyze protection trends and the risks that forcibly displaced and stateless persons are facing. Protection monitoring has also the purpose of identifying people who are in need for specific services, support, or information and refer them so that they can receive assistance accordingly to their needs.
UNHCR conducted at national level interviews with refugee households to elicit their feedback on the overall protection environment in Lebanon. The purpose of the collection was to use the feedback from refugees to inform UNHCR's advocacy and programmatic interventions with the aim of improving refugees' access to protection and essential services, assistance and information.

Tags: covid-19, health, livelihoods, needs assessment, protection, transportation
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Afghanistan - Rapid Household Assessments 2024 October - December

Following the change in authority in Afghanistan on 15 August 2021 and the resulting declaration of a Level 3 emergency, UNHCR introduced a rapid assessment methodology to quickly assess humanitarian and protection needs throughout the country as part of scale-up by UNHCR to respond to the unfolding crisis - an effort that continued throughout 2024. The primary focus of the assessments were IDPs and IDP returnees who account for the majority of the households interviewed in these assessments. Nonetheless, as UNHCR takes a whole-of-community approach in its assistance programme, vulnerable host community members were also assessed, alongside a small number of refugee returnees, asylum seekers and refugees, as well as deported and spontaneous returnees under an area-based approach. The Rapid Household Assessments (RHAF) covers all 34 provinces.

Tags: facilities-infrastructure, mental health, needs assessment, protection, shelter
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Bulgaria - Post-Distribution Monitoring of Cash-Based Interventions - 2025

The Bulgaria: Post-Distribution Monitoring of Cash-Based Interventions - 2025 dataset evaluates the impact of UNHCR’s cash-based interventions (CBI) in Bulgaria. Between October and December 2024, 4,225 households (9,158 individuals) received multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA), winterization support, and education grants. Additionally, the Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC) provided cash-for-education assistance to 194 individuals. A post-distribution monitoring (PDM) survey was conducted via telephone interviews from January 16-28, 2025, with 431 randomly selected households, ensuring a 95% confidence level and a 5% margin of error. Of these, 40 were BRC beneficiaries, while 391 received support directly from UNHCR. The dataset captures household spending, financial coping strategies, and program effectiveness.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Protracted Displacement Economies, 2021 - 2023


The project considers five pairs of countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)/Uganda, Ethiopia/Somalia, Lebanon/Syria, Myanmar/Thailand, and Pakistan/Afghanistan. Research was conducted with partners in the primary focus country of each pair of countries (the first mentioned). This research was attentive to the cross-border dynamics of the protracted displacement economy with the other countries in each pair (the second mentioned). A household survey approach comprising a baseline survey and one follow-up panel survey (except in Myanmar which only had the baseline survey) was a central part of this project’s research.  

The 15 research locations (three each from the five primary focus countries) were purposively selected, making sure that both cities and camps providing refuge to the displaced are included, and that there is data for a sampling frame (i.e. a list of all households to be studied) and that the sites are accessible to the researchers. Locations were selected to avoid an exclusive focus on displaced people. In camps (which are exclusive to displaced people), a portion of the local community outside the camp was also surveyed. The purpose was to collect a survey dataset for intra- and cross-country comparisons.

Focus groups informed the design of the initial survey instrument, ensuring that questions were as comprehensible as possible and relevant to the local context. The survey instrument comprised a core section that was used across all five countries, with short country- and location-specific additions to reflect the concerns of local stakeholders. The instrument was designed jointly by UK researchers and international partners in English and then translated by international partners into nine other languages. The survey was conducted using tablets and the open-source Kobo Toolkit software with multi-language capability.

The questions covered standard short measures of: gender, age, multidimensional poverty and wellbeing, displacement/mobility history, livelihoods, social care, and other support including non-financial support. In addition to these household-level questions, individual questions were included for the respondents on attitudes about contacts with neighbors, collective organisation, sources of emotional support, and plans and hopes for the future. Questions shared across all countries have standard responses which maximise the potential for intra- and cross-country comparison of this dataset. 

The survey considered the entire displacement-affected community. The baseline survey in 2021 included 14504 households selected randomly in each of the 15 locations. The selection of individuals from within a household to respond to the questionnaire was fully random, stratified by sex. Two years after the baseline survey, in 2023, 1779 households were re-surveyed in four countries (a repeat survey was not done in Myanmar).


Tags: education, food security, health, livelihoods, needs assessment, nutrition, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Colombia - High Frequency Survey - Q3 2024

The data was collected using the High Frequency Survey (HFS). The survey allowes for better reaching populations of interest with remote modalities (phone interviews and self-administered surveys online) and improved sampling guidance and strategies. It includes a set of standardized regional core questions while allowing for operation-specific customizations. The core questions revolve around populations of interest's demographic profile, difficulties during their journey, specific protection needs, access to documentation and regularization, health access, coverage of basic needs, coping capacity and negative mechanisms used, and well-being and local integration. The data collected has been used by countries in their protection monitoring analysis and vulnerability analysis.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, education, food security, health, livelihoods, needs assessment, nutrition, protection, survey, water sanitation and hygiene-wash
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Afghanistan - Rapid Household Assessments - 2024

Following the change in authority in Afghanistan on 15 August 2021 and the resulting declaration of a Level 3 emergency, UNHCR introduced a rapid assessment methodology to quickly assess humanitarian and protection needs throughout the country as part of scale-up by UNHCR to respond to the unfolding crisis - an effort that continued throughout 2024. The primary focus of the assessments were IDPs and IDP returnees who account for the majority of the households interviewed in these assessments. Nonetheless, as UNHCR takes a whole-of-community approach in its assistance programme, vulnerable host community members were also assessed, alongside a small number of refugee returnees, asylum seekers and refugees, as well as deported and spontaneous returnees under an area-based approach. The Rapid Household Assessments (RHAF) covers all 34 provinces.

Tags: facilities-infrastructure, mental health, needs assessment, protection, shelter
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Afghanistan - Community Based Protection Monitoring - 2024

Community-Based Protection Monitoring (CBPM) is one of UNHCR’s key tools to identify and monitor key protection issues including violations of rights, displacement, needs of vulnerable populations, access to rights and services, safety, freedom of movement, and occurrences of issues involving Gender Based Violence (GBV), Child Protection (CP), explosive hazards and Housing Land and Property (HLP), in order to identify persons in need of assistance, inform the humanitarian response and advocate for the protection of civilians. CBPM also serves as an evidence-base 
for design and implementation of protection programs. 
The methodology used has been jointly developed with the Afghanistan Protection Cluster (APC) and includes standardized data collection tools (HH, KII and FGDs). To monitor and compare the protection environment of girls, boys, men, and women, the data is disaggregated by age and gender that identifies adolescents, youth, and elderly, as well as population groups (i.e., refugees, refugee returnees, undocumented returnees, IDPs, IDP returnees, host communities).


Tags: food security, livelihoods, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Afghanistan - Community Based Protection Monitoring 2024 October - December

Community-Based Protection Monitoring (CBPM) is one of UNHCR’s key tools to identify and monitor key protection issues including violations of rights, displacement, needs of vulnerable populations, access to rights and services, safety, freedom of movement, and occurrences of issues involving Gender Based Violence (GBV), Child Protection (CP), explosive hazards and Housing Land and Property (HLP), in order to identify persons in need of assistance, inform the humanitarian response and advocate for the protection of civilians. CBPM also serves as an evidence-base 
for design and implementation of protection programs. 
The methodology used has been jointly developed with the Afghanistan Protection Cluster (APC) and includes standardized data collection tools (HH, KII and FGDs). To monitor and compare the protection environment of girls, boys, men, and women, the data is disaggregated by age and gender that identifies adolescents, youth, and elderly, as well as population groups (i.e., refugees, refugee returnees, undocumented returnees, IDPs, IDP returnees, host communities).


Tags: food security, livelihoods, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Ukraine -  Survey of intentions and perspectives of IDPs #3 - February 2024

This dataset is the third round of UNHCR’s Survey of Intentions and Perspectives of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Ukraine, implemented in partnership with Ipsos SA. Data collection took place from January to February 2024 and involved approximately 4,800 IDP households across Ukraine. The survey includes a longitudinal component, with part of the sample having participated in earlier rounds. The objective of the survey is to provide updated information on the profiles, living conditions, future intentions, and decision-making factors of internally displaced persons in Ukraine. Data were collected using a mixed-method approach, combining remote and face-to-face interviews, and a mixed sampling design including both stratified probability and respondent-assisted techniques. The anonymized dataset includes household- and individual-level data and supports programmatic planning and response related to displacement, return, and local integration in Ukraine.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, education, food security, gender-based violence-gbv, health, internally displaced persons-idp, livelihoods, mental health, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Ukraine - Survey of intentions and perspectives of IDPs #4 - August 2024

This dataset is the fourth round of UNHCR’s Survey of Intentions and Perspectives of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Ukraine, implemented in partnership with Ipsos SA. Data collection was conducted between July and August 2024 and includes approximately 4,700 IDP households across Ukraine. The survey includes a longitudinal component with part of the sample having participated in previous rounds. A mixed methodological approach was used, combining face-to-face and remote interviews with a stratified probability and respondent-assisted sampling design. The anonymized dataset includes household- and individual-level data and informs inter-agency planning and response related to internal displacement, return intentions, and durable solutions in Ukraine.

Tags: facilities-infrastructure, internally displaced persons-idp, livelihoods, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Ukraine - Survey of intentions and perspectives of refugees #5 - February 2024

This dataset is the fifth round of UNHCR’s Intention Surveys with refugees from Ukraine, implemented in partnership with Ipsos SA. Data collection was conducted between January and February 2024 and includes close to 4,000 refugee households hosted across countries in Europe. The survey includes a longitudinal component, with part of the sample having participated in previous rounds. A mixed methodological approach was used, combining two data collection modes and mixed sampling designs. The anonymized dataset includes household- and individual-level data and supports inter-agency planning and evidence-based response related to refugee intentions, returns, and durable solutions.

Tags: facilities-infrastructure, livelihoods, protection, refugees
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Ukraine - Survey of intentions and perspectives of refugees #6 - August 2024

This dataset is the sixth round of UNHCR’s Intention Surveys with refugees from Ukraine, implemented in partnership with Ipsos SA. Data collection was conducted between July and August 2024 and includes close to 5,000 refugee households hosted across countries in Europe. The survey includes a longitudinal component, with part of the sample having participated in previous rounds. A mixed methodological approach was used, combining two data collection modes and mixed sampling designs. The anonymized dataset includes household- and individual-level data and supports inter-agency planning and evidence-based response related to refugee intentions, returns, and durable solutions.

Tags: facilities-infrastructure, livelihoods, protection, refugees
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency