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Survey of intentions and perspectives of refugees from Ukraine #2 - Sept 2022

To ensure the centrality of refugees’ voices in discussions about their future, as well as to inform evidence-based inter-agency responses in support of host Governments, UNHCR is leading the regular implementation of intentions surveys with refugees from Ukraine, collecting primary data on their profiles, their current situation and intentions, and the factors influencing their decision-making.

The first regional intentions survey was completed and the report published in July 2022 (https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/94176). This data was collected during the second round, conducted between August and September 2022. The scope was expanded to include not only countries neighbouring Ukraine but other host countries in Europe and beyond. In addition, the second round also includes a deeper analysis of the factors influencing refugees’ decisions, as well as key insights into their current socio-economic situation. The report was published in September 2022 (https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/95767).

A mixed methodological approach was used, combining different sampling approaches and data collection modes. Over 4,800 refugee households (2,000 from countries neighboring Ukraine and 2,800 from other host countries) were interviewed either through a phone-based survey, web-based survey or face-to-face interview. All surveys used a harmonized questionnaire.

This data is an anonymous version of the original data collected and used for the primary analysis.

Tags: education, facilities-infrastructure, livelihoods, protection, refugees
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Poland - Post-Distribution Monitoring of Winter Cash Assistance - 2023

UNHCR uses cash based interventions (CBIs) as a preferred modality for delivering assistance, offering greater dignity and choice in line with UNHCR’s core protection mandate. In order to ensure that the cash assistance provided meets the intended objectives and that desired outcomes are achieved, UNHCR conducts regular post-distribution and outcome monitoring (PDM) with a sample of cash recipients residing across the country.

This PDM follows the winter cash assistance programme in Poland in response to the arrival of refugees from Ukraine. The objective of the programme was to support vulnerable refugee families and individuals in addressing their basic needs, mitigating the impact of the winter price increases in rent, utilities and clothing. The programme was aimed at households who benefited from the multi-purpose cash assistance in 2022 and who had at least two specific needs identified within the household, with 3,437 households / 8,629 refugees benefiting.

A PDM assessment was carried out in March 2023. It consisted of a structured household-level survey using a tool developed by UNHCR, and data was collected, cleaned and analysed  by UNHCR. The survey was administered via phone interviews to a representative sample of 352 beneficiary households. The sample frame included 1,088 beneficiary households that were not included in phone interviews for previous PDMs for the multi-purpose cash assistance programme.

This is an anonymous version of the original data collected and used for the primary analysis.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, markets, refugees
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Poland - Post-Distribution Monitoring of Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance - 2022

UNHCR uses cash based interventions (CBIs) as a preferred modality for delivering assistance, offering greater dignity and choice in line with UNHCR’s core protection mandate. In order to ensure that the cash assistance provided meets the intended objectives and that desired outcomes are achieved, UNHCR conducts regular post-distribution and outcome monitoring (PDM) with a sample of cash recipients residing across the country.

This PDM follows the multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) programme in Poland in response to the arrival of refugees from Ukraine. The programme was carried out in coordination with Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Polish Centre for International Aid (PCPM). The objective of the programme was to address the basic needs of the refugees, relieve the financial burden of their households and put them on a path to sustainable solutions. The programme was initially aimed at all refugees that left Ukraine after 24 February 2022, with 126,304 refugee households (267,746 individuals) benefiting from cash assistance between 11 March and 26 July 2022. New criteria was introduced on 27 July, seeking to target the most vulnerable refugees. 9,945 households (22,2923 individuals) benefited from cash assistance between 27 July and 9 September 2022 according to the new criteria. 

A PDM assessment was carried out between August and September of 2022. It consisted of a structured household-level survey using a tool developed by UNHCR. The survey was administered via phone interviews to a representative sample of 1,260 beneficiary households who received CBIs, and was broken up into two strata:

- Stratum 1: Households enrolled in the MPCA programme between 11 March and 27 July (n = 637 HHs)
- Stratum 2: Households enrolled in the MPCA programme (with new criteria) between 27 July and 9 September (n = 623 HHs)

Data collection for the 1st stratum took place 22 August and 8 September and for the 2nd stratum between 9 September and 4 October. Data was collected in Ukrainian and Russian by female enumerators of the REACH Initiative in Poland. Data was cleaned and analysed by REACH Initiative Poland, according to the Impact Initiative’s standards.

This is an anonymous version of the original data collected and used for the primary analysis.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, markets, refugees
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Republic of Korea - Results Monitoring Survey 2022

The UNHCR Results Monitoring Survey (RMS) is a household-level survey covering people who are directly or indirectly assisted by UNHCR, including refugees and asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, returnees, stateless and others of concern. Additionally, in the Republic of Korea the survey covered rejected Asylum-Seekers. The objective of the survey is to monitor impact and outcome level indicators on education, healthcare, livelihoods, protection concerns, shelter, and water and sanitation. The results contribute to an evidence base for reporting against UNHCR’s multi-year strategies to key stakeholders.

The RMS can be implemented in any operational context. A standard structured questionnaire has been developed for the RMS, which can be conducted as a stand-alone survey or flexibly integrated with other data collection exercises. The questionnaire was adapted to the Korean context and programme objectives by removing, e.g. questions related to camp settings. Questions related to the rejected asylum seekers in need of protection and family members abroad were added. The data includes indicators collected at both the household and individual (household-member) level. The survey covered 424 household amounting to 950 individuals.

Tags: disability, elderly, health, mental health, nutrition
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Sri Lanka - Sri Lankan Refugee Returnees Monitoring 2022

Since the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka in May 2009, increasing numbers of Sri Lankans have voluntarily repatriated.
Responsive to this demand, UNHCR Sri Lanka in cooperation with UNHCR offices in countries of asylum, in particular in Tamil Nadu, India, continues to facilitate the
voluntary repatriation of Sri Lankan refugees.
Protection monitoring data of these returnees was collected to allow UNHCR to intervene as appropriate - and improve the protection environment. This data also assist UNHCR staff in countries of asylum to provide better counsel on the challenges and potential risks linked to voluntary repatriation.
The survey covers refugee returnees who returned in 2019 and 2020, and was collected by protection and field teams in Jaffna and Colombo. Fieldwork was undertaken in 2021 and 2022, after the easing of the covid-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka.

Tags: facilities-infrastructure, livelihoods, protection, water sanitation and hygiene-wash
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Bangladesh - Post-Distribution Monitoring of Shelter Materials, 2022

More than 900,000 Rohingya refugees are living in extremely congested camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Since their arrival in Bangladesh, they have been dependent on humanitarian aid for their survival, including food, core-relief items, shelter and other basic services. Having provided households with initial shelter kits upon arrival, UNHCR is now supporting families providing the necessary materials to maintain their shelters and cover basic needs. From January to August 2022, UNHCR distributed Upgraded Shelter Kits (USKs) consisting of muli-type2 and borak-type* bamboo poles, rope, plastic tarpaulins, sandbags and toolkits. UNHCR conducts Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) to collect refugees’ feedback on the quality, sufficiency, utilization, and effectiveness of the assistance we provide, which helps improve and adapt the services as per the refugees’ needs. UNHCR undertook a PDM to monitor this programme in Bangladesh in month YYYY. The PDM involved a mixed-methodology incorporating both qualitative and quantitative methods. This data is the anonymous version of the qualitative data collected using a structured household-level questionnaire.

Tags: facilities-infrastructure, needs assessment, non-food items-nfi, populated places-settlements, shelter, transportation
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Bangladesh - Post-Distribution Monitoring of Non-Food Items, 2022

More than 900,000 Rohingya refugees are living in extremely congested camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Since their arrival in Bangladesh, they have been dependent on humanitarian aid for their survival, including food, core-relief items, shelter and other basic services. From January to August 2022, UNHCR distributed Core Relief Item kits to newly arrived refugee families. Each such kit includes tarpaulins for shelter construction, a kitchen set, blanket, jerry can, bucket, sleeping mat and solar lamp. UNHCR conducts Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) to collect refugees’ feedback on the quality, sufficiency, utilization, and effectiveness of the assistance provided, which helps improve and adapt the services as per the refugees’ needs. UNHCR undertook a PDM to monitor this programme in Bangladesh in November 2022. The PDM involved a mixed-methodology, incorporating both qualitative and quantitative methods. This data is the anonymous version of the qualitative data collected using a structured household-level questionnaire.

Tags: health, needs assessment, water sanitation and hygiene-wash
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Kazakhstan - Results Monitoring Survey, 2023

The UNHCR Results Monitoring Survey (RMS) is a household-level survey for person for and with whom UNHCR works, including refugees and asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, returnees, stateless and others of concern. The objective of the survey is to monitor impact and outcome level indicators on education, healthcare, livelihoods, protection concerns, shelter, and water and sanitation. The results contribute to an evidence base for reporting against UNHCR’s multi-year strategies to key stakeholders.

The RMS can be implemented in any operational context. A standard structured questionnaire has been developed for the RMS, which can be conducted as a stand-alone survey or flexibly integrated with other data collection exercises.  The questionnaire was adapted to the Kazakhstan context and programme objectives and focused on health, education and employment. The data includes indicators collected at both the household and individual (household-member) level. The survey covered 89 household containing 363 individuals.

Tags: education, health, livelihoods, nutrition, survey
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Malaysia - Financial behaviour survey, 2022

The financial behaviours survey aim to collect general information on financial and digital literacy of refugees and asylum-seekers in Malaysia for the purpose of understanding their familiarity with and interest in financial and digital services. The survey was administered via phone calls, where respondents were identified through a random sampling of individuals aged 18-59 registered with UNHCR, and have updated their contact numbers with UNHCR in the last 6 months.

A majority of respondents are able to confidently make calculations and transact with money without errors. As a result of regulatory challenges, only 35.8% of respondents owned SIM cards registered under their own names. 89% of respondents own a smartphone, with the most frequently used mobile apps being Whatsapp, followed by Facebook, Youtube, imo and TikTok. While respondents seem to understand the value of financial services, only 11% actually own an account at a financial institutions due to regulatory barriers. A majority of respondents also rely on informal services for sending or receiving money either locally (within Malaysia) or internationally. In addition to this, 84.9% reported not having any savings whatsoever, which indicates respondents' limited resilience capacities to withstand sudden shocks or stressors.

Tags: facilities-infrastructure, livelihoods, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Malaysia - Health Access and Utilization Survey 2022

Health access and utilization survey (HAUS) is a cross-sectional, household telephone survey designed by the Public Health Section as a tool to determine refugees’ access to, utilization of, and coverage of key health services across different levels of health facilities as well as to identify critical factors and challenges faced by refugees that may affect health access in a timely manner. UNHCR Malaysia conducted the survey in December 2022 with the help of 23 enumerators and successfully collected data from 718 households comprising of 1,760 individuals. Informed consent was obtained prior to the start of the interview. 
The average age of the respondents was 34 years (SD = 9 years). Majority of the households were male-headed (87%), married (55%), currently in some form of employment (83%) and originated from Myanmar (74%). Among the head of households, knowledge of available health services were lacking with a third of them (30.8%) unaware of subsidized care at government health facilities for UNHCR document holders while more than half of them were unaware of the availability of hospitalization assistance as provided by IMARET. Nevertheless, most households were able to access health care when needed (93%) although affordability remained a major barrier.  The average amount paid by households for primary health services was MYR164 while hospitalization care could cost as much as MYR5,197 on average. In terms of childhood vaccination, 78% children under 5 were able to receive measles or MMR vaccination mainly from government health facilities. However, it is worth noting that the finding did not indicate whether the children had completed the required doses for MMR. Access to reproductive health services remain challenging with slightly more than half of pregnant women faced difficulties accessing antenatal care due to financial barrier. The average cost of delivery care paid by the respondents was MYR3,600. In terms of family planning, only 45.1% received family planning counselling or services post-delivery. Non-communicable diseases were emerging as another health concern affecting as many as 10% of the total households. The top three most common NCD were hypertension, diabetes mellitus and musculo-skeletal diseases. As a result of inclusive national COVID-19 vaccination programme, refugees benefitted from the initiative with 92.6% completing the required doses and 74.6% receiving a booster dose. In summary, findings from this survey indicated the need to strengthen health awareness and information dissemination among refugees while sustainable health financing will help to ease the financial barrier faced by most refugees in need of health services. Advocacy for inclusion in the national health programming in key areas namely communicable and non-communicable diseases, childhood immunization, safe motherhood and family planning will help to promote better health outcomes for refugees.

Tags: education, environment, gender-based violence-gbv, health, livelihoods, nutrition
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Indonesia - High Frequency Survey: Communication with Communities - 2022

The aim of the survey was to assess displaced people's access to protection support during the pandemic and absence of in-person services. To do so, the survey assessed awareness and usage of major communication and information channels between refugee communities and UNHCR, identified unaddressed protection issues amongst respondents, and asked about awareness and use of alternative sources for support. The survey targeted registered refugees in the greater Jakarta area as in-person services were suspended for significantly longer here than elsewhere in the country. 426 responses were gathered using IVR (Interactive Voice Response). Only refugees with an active phone number registered were included in the sample. The results paint a picture of these three topics separately as well as identify hidden caseloads and there existing support opportunities.

Tags: facilities-infrastructure, gender-based violence-gbv, health, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Indonesia - Post-Distribution Monitoring of Cash-Based Intervention, 2022

UNHCR uses Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) as a mechanism to collect refugees’ feedback on the quality, sufficiency, utilization and effectiveness of the assistance items they receive. The underlying principle behind the process is linked to accountability, as well as a commitment to improve the quality and relevance of support provided, and related services. UNHCR increasingly uses cash based interventions (CBIs) as a preferred modality for delivering assistance, offering greater dignity and choice to displaced people in line with UNHCR’s core protection mandate. In order to ensure that the cash assistance provided meets the intended objectives and that desired outcomes are achieved, UNHCR conducts regular post-distribution and outcome monitoring with a sample of refugee recipients residing across the country. This PDM covers people who receives CBI in Indonesia in early 2022. Feedback on the modality was collected from 110 households in August of 2022.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Bangladesh - WASH Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices survey - 2020

UNHCR Cox’s Bazar Field Office conducted the second round of its WASH Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) survey from 2nd November to 1st December 2020 in UNHCR’s area of operation in Kutupalong and Teknaf. Five WASH partners implemented the survey: NGO Forum, BRAC, OXFAM, Solidarité International and ACF. Preparation began in early November, as UNHCR discussed methodologies with participating organisations.
The objectives of the study were:
  1.To monitor and evaluate impacts of UNHCR WASH interventions in camps;
  2.To identify and measure weaknesses and gaps in UNHCR WASH interventions in 2019;
  3.To provide guidance for UNHCR WASH future interventions and future sustainable WASH programming for Rohingya refugees;
  4.UNHCR Bangladesh WASH interventions able to compare to UNHCR Global KAP standards.

Tags: facilities-infrastructure, health, needs assessment, shelter, water sanitation and hygiene-wash
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Peru - Flow Monitoring Cusco and Madre de Dios, Q2-Q3 2022

UNHCR Peru undertakes flow monitoring of Venezuelan refugees and migrants to analyze their movement dynamics at the border, their protection needs and vulnerabilities.
For the most part, families in transit are walking or asking for hitchhiking and crossing the borders using irregular routes, which increases protection risks along the way. The analysis of this information contributes to the design of responses to mitigate these protection risks.
The results are not statistically representative and should be considered as a general indicator of the trends.


Tags: logistics, protection, transportation
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Lebanon - COVID19 Refugee Household Monitoring, H2 2020

UNHCR conducts Protection Monitoring with partners to analyze trends in the protection environment and situation of refugees in all regions of Lebanon on an ongoing basis. With the outbreak of COVID-19 in Lebanon and the introduction of movement and other restrictions aimed at preventing and containing the spread of the virus, UNHCR and its Protection Monitoring partners Caritas, Intersos and Sheild developed a specific questionnaire to elicit feedback from refugees on the impact of the COVID-19 response on their protection and well-being.
The feedback from refugees is used to inform advocacy and programmatic interventions and modes of implementation with the aim of improving refugees' access to protection and essential services, assistance and information.

Tags: covid-19, disaster risk reduction-drr, health, livelihoods, mental health
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Iraq - Results Monitoring Survey, 2022

The UNHCR Results Monitoring Survey (RMS) has the objective of monitoring the impact and outcome of UNHCR's assistance on education, healthcare, livelihoods, protection concerns, shelter, and water and sanitation. The results contribute to an evidence base for reporting against UNHCR’s multi-year strategies to key stakeholders.

UNHCR Iraq has authorized IMPACT to undertake a Results Monitoring Survey targeting IDP/returnee and refugee families, including beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries, throughout Iraq in 2022 to assist in internal monitoring of results and impact indicators. This survey will help UNHCR create and execute successful interventions for Iraqi IDP/returnee and refugee families by providing vital information on their well-being and living situations.

Tags: education, gender-based violence-gbv, health, livelihoods, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Iraq - Refugees Vulnerability Assessment Tool, 2018 - 2020

The Vulnerability Assessment Tool (VAT) started in the mid of 2018 until the outbreak of COVID-19, March 2020. Both camp and urban refugee population were targeted using a different mechanism for each. The program included multiple objectives and among them, was an immediate focus and prioritization of the food security assessment: this led to programmatic recommendations on processes and criteria for targeting the most vulnerable and food insecure. Another crucial aim behind this exercise was a medium-term focus on multi-sectoral vulnerability in terms of food security, shelter, health, education, and specific needs: this also resulted in programmatic recommendations on processes and criteria for targeting the most vulnerable in each sector, including a cross-sectoral comparison. 

Tags: food security, health, livelihoods, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Iraq - Socio-Economic Vulnerability Assessment Tool, 2022

The main objective of the Socio-Economic Vulnerability Assessment Tool (SEVAT)​ is to provide the basis of a revision of UNHCR’s refugee vulnerability targeting model, focusing on socio-economic vulnerability indicators among refugee households living in Iraq. The data collected includes household-level demographic and socio-economic information related to basic well-being and needs among refugee households, with the purpose of facilitating the identification of vulnerabilities among refugee households in camp vs. out-of-camp settings, and geographic areas for assistance targeting.

Tags: food security, health, livelihoods, needs assessment, water sanitation and hygiene-wash
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency