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China - 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. UNHCR increasingly uses Cash-Based Interventions (CBIs) as a preferred modality for delivering assistance, offering greater dignity and choice to forcibly displaced and stateless persons in line with UNHCR's core protection mandate. In order to ensure that the cash assistance provided meets the intended programme objectives and that desired outcomes are achieved, UNHCR conducts regular post-distribution and outcome monitoring with a sample of refugee recipients.

UNHCR supported 88 refugee households in 13 provinces in China with cash assistance in 2022. The CBI PDM was conducted in October and November 2022 to assess outcomes of the assistance.Data was collected via a self administered email survey. Almost half the households receiving cash assistance are individuals without family. UNHCR’s cash assistance is beneficial to its recipients as respondents point to improved living conditions (91%), relieved financial burdens (91%) and reduction in feeling of stress (91%). In terms of coping strategies, 56% of all beneficiaries had to take out a new loan over the last three months.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, livelihoods, needs assessment, survey
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Lebanon - Protection Monitoring - Q4 2021

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.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, 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: food security, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Lebanon - Protection Monitoring - Q3 2021

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.
In the third quarter of 2021, 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: food security, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Lebanon - Protection Monitoring - Q2 2021

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.
In the second quarter of 2021, 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: food security, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Lebanon - Protection Monitoring - Q1 2021

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.
In the first quarter of 2021, 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: food security, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Lebanon - Protection Monitoring - Q4 2020

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.
In the fourth quarter of 2020, 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: food security, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Panama - Darien Border Protection Monitoring, 2022 - 2023

Darien is Panama’s largest and poorest province. Bordering Colombia, the province hosts a 60-mile-deep jungle, the only breaking point of the Pan-American Highway, linking the continent from south to north.  Darien is a transit location for thousands of refugees and migrants, most of them coming from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, and African and South Asian nations. 
According to official statistics of the Panamanian National Migration Service (SNM), from 2010 to 2020 some 120,000 people crossed through this area. In 2021 and 2022, Panama faced an unprecedented mixed movement crisis, with nearly 400,000 people making this perilous journey through the jungle. In 2022, a total of 248,284 people entered the country irregularly through Darien. 
Before they arrived at the Darien jungle, many of these refugees and migrants had previously crossed multiple countries often through unofficial border crossings, resulting in increased protection risks. These vulnerabilities were further exacerbated, during their journey through the jungle, by many risks and incidents which include, but are not limited to, thefts, physical and sexual attacks, murder, and extortion. Many of these refugees and migrants were also undocumented, limiting their access to basic services. 
Due to protection concerns, in July 2022, UNHCR started collecting monthly information on the characteristics, vulnerabilities, and protection needs of refugees and migrants entering Panama through the Darien jungle. 


Tags: food security, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Ukraine - Survey of intentions and perspectives of IDPs #2 - May 2023

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

The first round of intentions surveys among IDPs in Ukraine was completed and the report published in February 2023 (https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/99164). This data was collected during the second round, conducted in May 2023, in parallel to the fourth round of the refugees' intentions surveys. A joint report was published in July 2023 (https://reporting.unhcr.org/ukraine-lives-hold-intentions-and-perspectives-refugees-and-idps).

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

Tags: education, facilities-infrastructure, internally displaced persons-idp, livelihoods, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Slovakia - Area-Based Assessment of Refugees and Host Communities - 2022

In order to provide an overview of the humanitarian situation of refugees from Ukraine and host communities in the Slovak Republic, UNHCR in partnership with REACH Impact Initiatives conducted an area based assessment in the cities of Bratislava, Kosice, Nitra and Zilina in between October and December 2022. The objective of the assessment was to complement the multi-sector needs assessment conducted in August 2022 (https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/catalog/778) and to better inform an area-based response by the local authorities and humanitarian actors. The specific focus of the assessment was to identify priority needs of the refugee population in terms of access to basic services, social cohesion between refugees as well as host population, and local refugee response mechanisms.

The assessment used a mixed-methods approach, including data from secondary sources as well as primary qualitative and quantitative data. For the primary quantitative component, a set of structured household questionnaires were used: one for refugees and one for host households. The four geographic areas were decided as they were hosting the largest number of refugees at the time of the assessment. Temporary protection data was used to get an estimate of the refugees in the four cities assessed. Purposive sampling was used, therefor the results can only be considered as indicative and are not representative of the whole population of interest. See further details on the methodology in the report.

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

Tags: livelihoods, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Burkina Faso - Result Monitoring Surveys (RMS) - 2022

The UNHCR Results Monitoring Survey (RMS) conducted in Burkina Faso from June to August 2022 aimed to gather data on refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) to monitor impact and outcome indicators in education, healthcare, livelihoods, protection concerns, shelter, and water and sanitation. Using a standard structured questionnaire, data was collected at both household and individual levels through Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) and Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). The sample frames were sourced from the “Conseil National de Secours d'Urgence et de Réhabilitation (CONASUR)” in December 2021 for IDPs and UNHCR's registration database, ProGresv4, for refugees and asylum seekers, resulting in 667 observations for RAS, 6 for refugee returnees, and 704 for IDPs. The survey results, which were submitted by August 28, 2022, contribute to UNHCR’s evidence base for multi-year strategic reporting to key stakeholders.

Tags: education, facilities-infrastructure, gender-based violence-gbv, health, livelihoods, needs assessment, protection, shelter, survey, water sanitation and hygiene-wash
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Niger - UNHCR/WFP Joint Assessment Mission in the regions of Diffa, Marradi, Tahoua,Tillabéri - Niger 2022

In 2022, Niger totalled more than 700.000 displaced population of which 250000 plus were refugees and asylum seekers. In the meantime, the country suffered an unprecedented food crisis. In these settings, the UNHCR and WFP carried-out between October 12 and November 4th, 2022, a joint assessment mission (JAM) to assess the situation and provide support to refugees, asylum seekers, internally Displaced (IDPs) and Host community members in the four regions of Diffa, Maradi, Tahoua, and Tillabéri in Niger. The data was collected from about 4600+ households with the specific objectives of assessing the basic needs, shelter, food security, nutrition, water and sanitation, education, protection, security, common services, and livelihoods of forcible displaced people to inform and improve humanitarian assistance.

Tags: food security, health, livelihoods, needs assessment, nutrition, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Central African Republic - Protection Incidents Monitoring - Household - Q4 2021

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 several prefectures of the Central African Republic. Protection incidents were continuously collected throughout the year by UNHCR and its partners, leveraging their network of community relay and protection committees across the prefectures. This data contains incidents that afffected 1153 households in 13 of the 17 prefectures of the country in the fourth quarter of 2021.

Tags: gender-based violence-gbv, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Central African Republic - Protection Incidents Monitoring - Household - Q3 2021

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 several prefectures of the Central African Republic. Protection incidents were continuously collected throughout the year by UNHCR and its partners, leveraging their network of community relay and protection committees across the prefectures. This data contains incidents that afffected 1389 households in 13 of the 17 prefectures of the country in the third quarter of 2021.

Tags: gender-based violence-gbv, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Central African Republic - Protection Incidents Monitoring - Household - Q2 2021

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 several prefectures of the Central African Republic. Protection incidents were continuously collected throughout the year by UNHCR and its partners, leveraging their network of community relay and protection committees across the prefectures. This data contains incidents that afffected 629 households in 12 of the 17 prefectures of the country in the second quarter of 2021, during which the month of April was only partially covered.

Tags: gender-based violence-gbv, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Central African Republic - Protection Incidents Monitoring - Household - Q2 2023

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 several prefectures of the Central African Republic. Protection incidents were continuously collected throughout the year by UNHCR and its partners, leveraging their network of community relay and protection committees across the prefectures. This data contains incidents that afffected 1925 households in 12 of the 17 prefectures of the country in the second quarter of 2023.

Tags: gender-based violence-gbv, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Central African Republic - Protection Incidents Monitoring - Household - Q1 2023

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 several prefectures of the Central African Republic. Protection incidents were continuously collected throughout the year by UNHCR and its partners, leveraging their network of community relay and protection committees across the prefectures. This data contains incidents that afffected 1632 households in 12 of the 17 prefectures of the country in the first quarter of 2023.

Tags: gender-based violence-gbv, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Central African Republic - Protection Incidents Monitoring - Household - Q4 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 several prefectures of the Central African Republic. Protection incidents were continuously collected throughout the year by UNHCR and its partners, leveraging their network of community relay and protection committees across the prefectures. This data contains incidents that afffected 1952 households in 11 of the 17 prefectures of the country in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Tags: gender-based violence-gbv, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Central African Republic - Protection Incidents Monitoring - Household - 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 several prefectures of the Central African Republic. Protection incidents were continuously collected throughout the year by UNHCR partners FCA, leveraging their network of community relay and protection committees across the prefectures. This data contains incidents that afffected 1295 households in 10 of the 17 prefectures of the country in the second quarter of 2022.

Tags: gender-based violence-gbv, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Central African Republic - Protection Incidents Monitoring - Household - Q1 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 several prefectures of the Central African Republic. Protection incidents were continuously collected throughout the year by UNHCR partners FCA, leveraging their network of community relay and protection committees across the prefectures. This data contains incidents that affected 1295 households in 11 of the 17 prefectures of the country in the first quarter of 2022.

Tags: health, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Central African Republic - Protection Incidents Monitoring - Household - Q3 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 several prefectures of the Central African Republic. Protection incidents were continuously collected throughout the year by UNHCR partners FCA, leveraging their network of community relay and protection committees across the prefectures. This data contains incidents that affected 1700+ households in several prefectures of the country in the third quarter of 2022.

Tags: health, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Nepal - Post-Distribution Monitoring of Cash-Based Interventions 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 the people with and for whom UNHCR works. 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 Nepal throughout 2022. Feedback on the modality was collected from 351 households in February 2023.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, livelihoods, needs assessment, survey
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Survey of intentions and perspectives of refugees from Ukraine #3 - Feb 2023

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 and second regional intentions surveys were completed and the report published in July 2022 (https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/94176) and September 2022 (https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/95767). This data was collected during the third round, conducted between December 2022 and January 2023. The survey covered refugees hosted in countries in Europe. In addition, the third round included a longitudinal sample of refugees surveyed in both the second and third rounds. The report was published in Februrary 2023 (https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/99072).

A mixed methodological approach was used, combining two data collection modes. Around 3,900 refugee households (2,100 from countries neighboring Ukraine and 1,800 from other host countries) were interviewed either through a phone-based survey, web-based survey or face-to-face interview. A total of 887 households participated in both the second and third round (longitudinal sample). 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
Survey of intentions and perspectives of refugees from Ukraine #4 - June 2023

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, second and third regional intentions surveys were completed and the reports published in July 2022 (https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/94176), September 2022 (https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/95767) and February 2023 (https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/99072). This data was collected during the fourth round, conducted between April and May 2023. The survey covered refugees hosted in countries in Europe.

A mixed methodological approach was used, combining two data collection modes. Around 3,850 refugee households were interviewed either through a phone-based survey, web-based survey or face-to-face interview. The data include a mix of `Fresh` refugee households (i.e. not included in previous rounds) and `Panel` households (i.e. those included in at least one of the previous rounds). 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