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South Sudan - Results Monitoring Survey - 2022

The UNHCR Results Monitoring Survey (RMS) is a household-level survey on persons of concern (PoC) to UNHCR directly or indirectly assisted by UNHCR, 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 data includes indicators collected at both the household and individual (household-member) level, and results are statistically representative.
  
  This RMS took place in South Sudan from November to December 2022. The surveyed population was IDPs in eight out of the ten states of South Sudan, with 4,630 questionnaires allocated proportionally to the displaced population. 
  
  This dataset is the anonymized version of the original data.

Tags: education, facilities-infrastructure, livelihoods, needs assessment, shelter, water sanitation and hygiene-wash
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Bulgaria - Multi Sector Needs Assessment and Winter Needs - 2022/2023

This MSNA is a quantitative survey that aims to cover randomly selected households of Ukrainian citizens who have sought international protection in Bulgaria in order to prepare an assessment of their needs in key public policy sectors: health care, employment, education and housing. The survey includes questions that pertained both the personal experience of respondents and to the experience of their households.

The study was conducted using a stratified sample with four subsamples:

- Refugees accommodated by state accommodation program;
- Refugees who received/receive support through the Blue dot centers;
- Refugees in private accommodation;
- Refugees whose children are enrolled in the Bulgarian education system - schools and kindergartens.

1311 surveys were collected between December 2022 and January 2023 in 265 municipalities in Bulgaria.   
  This dataset is the anonymized version of the original data.

Tags: education, health, livelihoods, mental health, protection, survey
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Regional Intentions Survey of Sudanese and South Sudanese Refugees - 2021/2022

The Regional Bureau for East, and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes (EHAGL) region initiated a survey in 2021 to map the intentions of South Sudanese and Sudanese refugees residing in four countries of asylum: Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, and South Sudan. The main objective of the survey is to assess the intention of, and impediments to, refugees returning to their place of origin or habitual places of residence in their respective countries of origin. The targeted population was South Sudanese and Sudanese refugees arrived in asylum countries from 1 January 2014 onwards, from which data was collected through key informants interviews and household questionnaires. All participating countries used the same questionnaire. Data collection was conducted concurrently between November 2021 and July 2022 in the four countries, using Kobo Toolkit.
  This dataset is the anonymized version of the original data.

Tags: protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Border Monitoring of Refugee Arrivals from Ukraine into Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania and Slovakia - 2022

More than 8 million refugees have fled Ukraine since the escalation of conflict on 24 February 2022. The number of people crossing fluctuated greatly in the early onset of the war in Ukraine.

To understand the drivers of displacement and intentions of refugees, over 18,000 interviews were conducted with people crossing from Ukraine into Poland, Hungary, Moldova and Slovakia. Interviews were conducted at several border checkpoint and certain reception centers, and began on 28 February. Interviewees were selected purposively to gain a broader understanding of experiences and intentions, and results should therefore be considered indicative. 
 
  This dataset is the anonymized version of the original data.

Tags: education, facilities-infrastructure, livelihoods, needs assessment, protection, shelter
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Lebanon - Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon, 2022

Eleven years into the Syrian conflict, Lebanon ranks the highest in per capita population of refugees in the world, with over 1.5 million displaced Syrians within its borders. Specifically, the Syrian refugee population in Lebanon remains one of the largest concentrations of refugees per capita in the world. A series of overlapping political, economic and social crises in Lebanon has underpinned the vastly growing level of need across populations in the country. On the macroeconomic front, at the beginning of July 2022 the World Bank downgraded Lebanon to a lower-middle-income country for the first time in 27 years, after Lebanon’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had decreased from $55 billion in 2018 to $20.5 billion in 2021.1 The Lebanese lira has continued to lose value in 2022, reaching exchange rates close to LBP 43,000 to the United States dollar in the informal market in December 2022. The country depends heavily on imports, paid for in dollars; fluctuations in exchange rates thus have significant impacts on the prices of goods and services in the country. Inflation is still on the rise: between October 2019 and the time of data collection in June 2022 the Consumer Price Index, which measures the average change of prices over time, rose by 1,066 per cent. In addition to these factors, the COVID-19 and more recent Cholera outbreaks have stretched the country’s health sector and resources to breaking point. As a result, Lebanon’s financial and humanitarian situation ranks among the most severe crises in the world today.

The 2022 Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon (VASyR) is the tenth annual representative survey assessing the situation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, with the aim to identify changes and trends in their vulnerabilities. Since its first round of data collection and assessment, the VASyR has become an essential tool for planning, shaping decision-making and the design of needs-based programmes. The results of the VASyR are used by the 10 sectors in partnership under the Lebanon Crisis Response Plan (LCRP), in order to understand the situational changes in Lebanon and advocate for funding. The VASyR has also been used to build targeting models, for instance to predict socioeconomic vulnerability and allocate assistance accordingly. Furthermore, the results of the VASyR reveal the geographical differences in vulnerabilities at governorate and district levels, which then feed into the situation analysis.

Tags: food security, livelihoods, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Jordan - Mobile Needs Assessment for non-Syrian Refugees - 2021

The main objective of the Mobile Needs Assessment is to update the knowledge base on the humanitarian needs and livelihoods situation at the household level for non-Syrian refugees in Jordan, inform the development of a vulnerability-based targeting strategy and strengthen the current food assistance framework, with the goal of providing longer-term assistance based on needs and improve food security in a sustainable manner.

Specific objectives of the Mobile Needs Assessment include:

Collecting first-hand up-to-date data on an extended sample of non-Syrian refugees
Exploring and understanding refugees’ basic needs, vulnerability, and livelihood opportunities also in the context of the COVID-19 onset;
Describing the socio-economic profile of and identify the most vulnerable non-Syrian refugee households;
Informing the programmatic decisions and targeting approach development for WFP in Q2-Q3 2021 and contributing to the existing evidence on targeting for UNHCR.

Tags: food security, livelihoods, needs assessment, survey
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Central African Republic - Protection Incidents Monitoring - Individual - Q1 & Q2 2022

UNHCR continuously collects data on incidents for protection monitoring in the Central African Republic as the lead in the protection cluster. This dataset contains incidents reported on victims in 12 of the 15 prefectures of the Central African Republic between January and June 2022. Protection incidents were continuously collected through the year by UNHCR partners INTERSOS and COOPI, leveraging their network of community relay and protection committees across the 12 prefectures. A total of 4711 incidents allegedly perpetrated on individuals from January to June 2022 are recorded in this dataset.

Tags: health, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Jordan - Post Distribution Monitoring: COVID-19 Emergency Response Assistance, 2021

This dataset contains the results of the Post-Distribution Monitoring exercise conducted to assess the 2021 COVID-19 Emergency Cash assistance operation by UNHCR Jordan. Jordan hosts some 760,000 refugees, most of whom (83% as of April 2022) live outside of camps. Many of them suffered gravely as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the support of flexible funding from a number of UNHCR donors, as well as earmarked funding from Austria, the European Union, and the United States, UNHCR distributed cash assistance to over 70,000 households to help cover fixed expenses, like rent, as a safety net during times of income loss. This assistance was specifically targeted towards those refugees and their families who were severely affected by the impact of the pandemic and had not been receiving regular cash assistance. The assistance was thus a preventative measure to ensure such families did not slip into poverty due to economic sector closures and the general economic slowdown.

Tags: cash based interventions-cbi, cash voucher assistance-cva, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Jordan - Post Distribution Monitoring: Multi Purpose Cash Assistance, 2021

This dataset contains the results of the 2021 annual Post-Distribution Monitoring (PDM) exercise of UNHCR’s urban basic needs cash assistance programme in Jordan. Through an automated teller machine (ATM) banking network equipped with iris scan technology,and mobile wallet technology, the agency disburses approximately 5.5 million USD per month to over 33,000 vulnerable refugee families across the country. UNHCR Jordan’s population of concern consists mainly (90+%) of Syrian refugees, but the organization also assists approximately 3,000 refugee families from other countries such as Iraq, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen. Assistance is designed to allow refugees who reside outside the camps in urban environments throughout Jordan to meet their basic needs and reduce their susceptibility to protection risks.

Tags: cash based interventions-cbi, cash voucher assistance-cva, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Jordan - Post Distribution Monitoring: Winter Cash Support, 2020–2021

The purpose of winter cash assistance is to reduce the harsh winter weather burden on refugees and allow them to get through the cold season without having to resort to negative coping strategies like borrowing money to make ends meet. The one-off cash transfers allow refugees to purchase essential winter items, such as heaters, gas tanks/refills, blankets, etc. A lifeline for many, this program supported over 70,000 cases with a one-off cash injection of winterization cash aid in 2019 for a total investment of 17.9 million Jordanian dinars (JOD). In 2020, partly due to additional Covid-related cash support having been made available at the height of the 2020 Covid-19 crisis, the scope was decreased significantly: some 45,000 cases were assisted by UNHCR with winterization assistance for a total envelope of close to nine million JOD.
Post Distribution Monitoring is a tool that UNHCR uses to keep track of how winter cash assistance is used and its impact on recipient well-being and gathers key feedback from recipients on the appropriateness of cash distribution mechanisms.

Tags: cash based interventions-cbi, cash voucher assistance-cva, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Jordan - Post Distribution Monitoring: Winter Preparedness, 2021–2022

The purpose of winter cash assistance is to reduce the harsh winter weather burden on refugees and allow them to get through the cold season without having to resort to negative coping strategies like borrowing money to make ends meet. The one-off cash transfers allow refugees to purchase essential winter items, such as heaters, gas tanks/refills, blankets, etc. A lifeline for many, during the 2021-2022 winter season, this program supported over 85,500 families with a total investment of more than USD 31 million.
Post Distribution Monitoring is a tool that UNHCR uses to keep track of how winter cash assistance is used and its impact on recipient well-being and gathers key feedback from recipients on the appropriateness of cash distribution mechanisms.

Tags: cash based interventions-cbi, cash voucher assistance-cva, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Nepal - Results Monitoring Survey and Socio-Sconomic Assessment 2023

The survey streamlines data collection and monitoring of impact and outcome level results as part of multi-year country strategy. Monitoring progress towards education enrollment and sustainable livelihoods results is vital to inform course correction in the operation’ annual implementation plan and budgeting. 
  The RMS and SEA are to be representative of persons of concern (PoC).
  This exercise was part of the 2022 RMS pilot.

Tags: education, health, livelihoods, needs assessment, protection, survey
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Sudan - Multi-Sector Needs Assessment - 2022

Sudan hosts one of the largest refugee populations in Africa, with 1.14 million refugees and asylum seekers as of 30 June 2022. Persistent insecurity in countries of origin contribute to protracted refugee caseloads remaining in Sudan, as opportunities for safe, voluntary, and dignified returns are obstructed. By mid-2022, Sudan is hosting 807,532 South Sudanese refugees, primarily in White Nile (282,807), Khartoum (191,312) and East Darfur (100,065); 131,191 Eritrean refugees primarily in Kassala (103,340), Gedaref (13,840), and Khartoum (9,275) states; and 73,448 Ethiopian refugees, primarily in Gedaref (49,944), and Blue Nile (9,688) states. Other refugee population groups also include those from Burundi, Chad, Central African Republic, Congo, Yemen and Syria. Of the 1.14 million refugee population, 38% reside in camps and 62% in out-of-camp and urban settings.
To ensure access to timely protection and lifesaving assistance, UNHCR and  partners have delivered multi-sectoral response targeting vulnerable refugee communities across Sudan, informed and monitored partly by this Multi Sector Needs Assessment which feeds to the Country Refugee Response Plan. 
This study gathers information about location, documentation, livelihoods, displacement status, nutrition, access to WASH facilities, shelter, information, and accountability of refugees in Sudan. 
This dataset is the anonymized version of the original data.

Tags: education, facilities-infrastructure, livelihoods, needs assessment, protection, shelter, water sanitation and hygiene-wash
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Afghanistan - Rapid Household Assessments 2022

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.  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 with a population of 19.8 millions (Annual Statistical Report 2021).

Tags: facilities-infrastructure, mental health, needs assessment, protection, shelter
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Slovakia - Protection Profiling and Monitoring - May-Dec 2022

To strengthen and promote an evidence-based protection response, UNHCR and its partners have been implementing a protection monitoring exercise since May 2022 to regularly collect and analyze data about the profiles, needs and intentions of refugees from Ukraine and monitor changes over time. The exercise covers the following countries that have received refugees from Ukraine: Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Republic of Moldova (5,035), Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

The protection monitoring involves household-level interviews conducted at border crossing points, reception and transit centres, collective sites, and assistance points in major cities using a structured questionnaire. Trained enumerators from UNHCR and partners collect data in face-to-face interviews. While respondents are randomly selected to reduce bias, the sample is considered a non-probability sample and results should be considered indicative, meaning they cannot be extrapolated to the population of refugees from Ukraine. The result reflects the refugees' situation and intentions at the time of data collection.

This dataset includes 4,227 household interviews conducted in Slovakia between May and September 2022. It is an anonymous version of the original data collected and used for the primary analysis.

Tags: needs assessment, protection, refugees
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Romania - Protection Profiling and Monitoring - May-Dec 2022

To strengthen and promote an evidence-based protection response, UNHCR and its partners have been implementing a protection monitoring exercise since May 2022 to regularly collect and analyze data about the profiles, needs and intentions of refugees from Ukraine and monitor changes over time. The exercise covers the following countries that have received refugees from Ukraine: Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Republic of Moldova (5,035), Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

The protection monitoring involves household-level interviews conducted at border crossing points, reception and transit centres, collective sites, and assistance points in major cities using a structured questionnaire. Trained enumerators from UNHCR and partners collect data in face-to-face interviews. While respondents are randomly selected to reduce bias, the sample is considered a non-probability sample and results should be considered indicative, meaning they cannot be extrapolated to the population of refugees from Ukraine. The result reflects the refugees' situation and intentions at the time of data collection.

This dataset includes 5,275 household interviews conducted in Romania between May and December 2022. It is an anonymous version of the original data collected and used for the primary analysis.

Tags: needs assessment, protection, refugees
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Belarus - Protection Profiling and Monitoring - May-Dec 2022

To strengthen and promote an evidence-based protection response, UNHCR and its partners have been implementing a protection monitoring exercise since May 2022 to regularly collect and analyze data about the profiles, needs and intentions of refugees from Ukraine and monitor changes over time. The exercise covers the following countries that have received refugees from Ukraine: Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Republic of Moldova (5,035), Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

The protection monitoring involves household-level interviews conducted at border crossing points, reception and transit centres, collective sites, and assistance points in major cities using a structured questionnaire. Trained enumerators from UNHCR and partners collect data in face-to-face interviews. While respondents are randomly selected to reduce bias, the sample is considered a non-probability sample and results should be considered indicative, meaning they cannot be extrapolated to the population of refugees from Ukraine. The result reflects the refugees' situation and intentions at the time of data collection.

This dataset includes 1,409 household interviews conducted in Belarus between May and September 2022. It is an anonymous version of the original data collected and used for the primary analysis.

Tags: needs assessment, protection, refugees
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Poland - Protection Profiling and Monitoring - May-Dec 2022

To strengthen and promote an evidence-based protection response, UNHCR and its partners have been implementing a protection monitoring exercise since May 2022 to regularly collect and analyze data about the profiles, needs and intentions of refugees from Ukraine and monitor changes over time. The exercise covers the following countries that have received refugees from Ukraine: Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Republic of Moldova (5,035), Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

The protection monitoring involves household-level interviews conducted at border crossing points, reception and transit centres, collective sites, and assistance points in major cities using a structured questionnaire. Trained enumerators from UNHCR and partners collect data in face-to-face interviews. While respondents are randomly selected to reduce bias, the sample is considered a non-probability sample and results should be considered indicative, meaning they cannot be extrapolated to the population of refugees from Ukraine. The result reflects the refugees' situation and intentions at the time of data collection.

This dataset includes 26,891 household interviews conducted in Poland between May and December 2022. It is an anonymous version of the original data collected and used for the primary analysis.

Tags: needs assessment, protection, refugees
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Republic of Moldova - Protection Profiling and Monitoring - May-Dec 2022

To strengthen and promote an evidence-based protection response, UNHCR and its partners have been implementing a protection monitoring exercise since May 2022 to regularly collect and analyze data about the profiles, needs and intentions of refugees from Ukraine and monitor changes over time. The exercise covers the following countries that have received refugees from Ukraine: Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Republic of Moldova (5,035), Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

The protection monitoring involves household-level interviews conducted at border crossing points, reception and transit centres, collective sites, and assistance points in major cities using a structured questionnaire. Trained enumerators from UNHCR and partners collect data in face-to-face interviews. While respondents are randomly selected to reduce bias, the sample is considered a non-probability sample and results should be considered indicative, meaning they cannot be extrapolated to the population of refugees from Ukraine. The result reflects the refugees' situation and intentions at the time of data collection.

This dataset includes 5,101 household interviews conducted in the Republic of Moldova between May and September 2022. It is an anonymous version of the original data collected and used for the primary analysis.

Tags: needs assessment, protection, refugees
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency