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Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA) - 2023

With the goal of supporting the Inter-Agency Regional Response Plan (RRP) and to enable planning among key humanitarian actors through the provision of updated information on multi-sectoral needs and priorities of refugees from Ukraine, the Regional Refugee Coordination Forum (RCF) agreed on a regional approach to the implementation of inter-agency multi-sectoral needs assessments (MSNA) in 2023. The assessments were conducted around summer of 2023, using a similar methodological approach and a harmonized questionnaire aiming at having comparable results to better inform and prioritize the humanitarian response. This comprehensive regional dataset was compiled by consolidating MSNA datasets from seven countries: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Czechia, Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, education, food security, gender-based violence-gbv, health, livelihoods, mental health, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Tajikistan - Socio-Economic Survey 2022

Representative survey of Afghan refugee households residing in Tajikistan was conducted in October – December 2022 with the objective to better understand the profile, aspirations and needs of Afghan refugees residing in Tajikistan, and to identify the current and future needs for support of refugees, in particular with respect to social assistance and labor programs. 1985 Afghan refugee and asylum seeker households registered with UNHCR were interviewed in Districts of Republican Subordination (DRS), Sughd oblast, Khatlon oblast, Dushanbe. Questionnaire covered such data as Household and individual profile, Legal status, Employment and labor market aspirations, Migration history and future migration intention, Social networks, Housing, utilities & health, Trust, social cohesion and mental health, Gender: household decisions and social norms.  

The qualitative study was aimed to assess barriers and enablers of socio-economic integration of Afghan refugees in Tajikistan. The objectives of the assessment were to explore socio-economic background, human and social capital of refugees and their family members, immediate and long-term needs of refugees and host communities that could facilitate socio-economic integration; determine refugees’ and host communities’ expectations and concerns and propose feasible solutions to address or mediate convenes through public policy programs and projects; reveal potential risks for refugees and host communities and barriers to socio- economic integration of refugees in Tajikistan. 250 participants were interviewed in December 2021 - January 2022 via Semi-structured and interviews and Focus Group Discussions (FGD).

Tags: disability, elderly, health, mental health, nutrition
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Bangladesh - Joint Protection Monitoring - Q2 2022

Six agencies conducted protection monitoring to inform protection programming and advocacy through a common and standardized evidence-based information collection.
  
  In the second quarter of 2022, focus group discussions, home visits, direct observation and key informant interviews were conducted in 33 camps to record and verify incidents violations of refugees rights. The protection monitoring contributed to a joint analysis of risks, threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents, as well as patterns and trends.

Tags: gender-based violence-gbv, health, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Afghanistan - Border Monitoring, Unofficial Crossing Points - 2022

The situation inside Afghanistan deteriorated in 2021 and had significant consequences for the most vulnerable among the population. Iran and Pakistan, which are neighbours of Afghanistan, also host some 8.2 million registered Afghan refugees and other Afghans with different statuses. The majority of registered refugees fled Afghanistan over the years, including from as early as 1979.

UNHCR has expanded its border monitoring in Afghanistan to include unofficial crossing points to understand flows and frequency on Afghans departing via these points, assess to territory and “the right to seek asylum” as well as the barriers which hinder the movement of people who may need international protection. Interviews at unofficial crossing points were held with key informants such as local residents in border areas, drivers, hotel and restaurant owners or border officials in over 50 locations, through Kunduz, Jalalabad, Herat, Gardez, Mazar and Kandahar field locations. Key informants gave estimates of weekly flows and their composition. This monitoring activity found that the majority of movements to Iran (84%) happen via unofficial border crossings, while less than 1% of movements to Pakistan happen via unofficial border crossings.

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
Kazakhstan - Post-Distribution Monitoring of Cash-Based Intervention 2023

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 of the process is accountability, as well as a commitment to improving 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 covered people who received CBI in Kazakhstan in early 2023. Feedback on the modality was collected from 19 households in September and October of 2023.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, livelihoods, needs assessment, survey
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Bangladesh - Bhasan Char Panel Survey - 2022

Around 30,000 refugees have been relocated by the Bangladesh government to Bhasan Char, and further plans exist to relocate about 100, 000 refugees. 
  To assess the conditions relocated refugees live under and that future relocations could be subject to, the Cox's Bazar Panel Survey was extended to cover Bhasan Char.
  The panel survey was jointly led by Gender & Adolescence: Global Evidence programme from ODI, UK, the Poverty & Equity Global Practice of the World Bank, and the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) at Yale University. Some questions were rephrased or added to fit the island context and did not cover host communities as no Bangladeshi nationals other than support staff live on the island.
  The survey was implemented in late-2022 and covered 962 households and 4,484 individuals.

Tags: food security, health, livelihoods, mental health, nutrition
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Bangladesh - WASH Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices survey - 2022

Routine monitoring of the WASH services provided is paramount for quality assurance, ensuring the set standards are met within stipulated timelines, challenges are identified in time and solutions are sought. UNHCR (Cox’s Bazar Field Office) conducted the third round of its WASH Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) survey from 12th October to 7th November 2022 in UNHCR’s area of operation in Kutupalong and Teknaf. Five WASH partners implemented the survey.
  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 2022;
  3.To provide guidance for UNHCR WASH future interventions and future sustainable WASH programming for Rohingya refugees;
  4.Be able to compare UNHCR Bangladesh WASH interventions to UNHCR Global KAP standards.

Tags: facilities-infrastructure, health, needs assessment, shelter, water sanitation and hygiene-wash
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Bangladesh - Joint Protection Monitoring - Q4 2022

Six agencies conducted protection monitoring to inform protection programming and advocacy through a common and standardized evidence-based information collection.
  
  In the third quarter of 2022, focus group discussions, home visits, direct observation and key informant interviews were conducted in 33 camps to record and verify incidents violations of refugees rights. The protection monitoring contributed to a joint analysis of risks, threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents, as well as patterns and trends.

Tags: gender-based violence-gbv, health, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Bangladesh - Joint Protection Monitoring - Q2 2023

Six agencies conducted protection monitoring to inform protection programming and advocacy through a common and standardized evidence-based information collection.
  
  In the second quarter of 2023, focus group discussions, home visits, direct observation and key informant interviews were conducted in 33 camps to record and verify incidents violations of refugees rights. The protection monitoring contributed to a joint analysis of risks, threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents, as well as patterns and trends.

Tags: gender-based violence-gbv, health, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Bangladesh - Joint Protection Monitoring - Q1 2023

Six agencies conducted protection monitoring to inform protection programming and advocacy through a common and standardized evidence-based information collection.
  
  In the first quarter of 2023, focus group discussions, home visits, direct observation and key informant interviews were conducted in 33 camps to record and verify incidents violations of refugees rights. The protection monitoring contributed to a joint analysis of risks, threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents, as well as patterns and trends.

Tags: gender-based violence-gbv, health, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Afghanistan - Border Monitoring, outflow - 2022

The situation inside Afghanistan deteriorated in 2021 and had significant consequences for the most vulnerable among the population. Iran and Pakistan, which are neighbours of Afghanistan, also host some 8.2 million registered Afghan refugees and other Afghans with different statuses. The majority of registered refugees fled Afghanistan over the years, including from as early as 1979.
  
  UNHCR border monitoring seeks to understand the triggers, intentions and reasons for Afghan cross-border movements, assess access to territory and “the right to seek asylum” as well as the barriers which hinder the movement of people who may need international protection. In 2022, more than 78,000 interviews were conducted with people across six crossing points into Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia from Afghanistan.

  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
Afghanistan - Border Monitoring, inflow - 2022

The situation inside Afghanistan deteriorated in 2022 and had significant consequences for the most vulnerable among the population. 1.6 million new arrivals have been witnessed in neighboring countries. While 5.3 million refugees returned to Afghanistan in phases since 2002, this trend has been declining in recent times with just over 6,500 people choosing to return in 2022. Since August 2022, UNHCR has maintained a non-return advisory for Afghanistan (reaffirmed February 2023), calling for a halt on forced returns of Afghan nationals.
  
  To assess people’s ability to access the right to return and map potential protection risks and human rights violations faced by people, over 55,000 interviews were conducted with people across six crossing points from Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia into Afghanistan. Interviews were conducted through out 2022. Interviewees were selected to gain an understanding of triggers, intentions and reasons for Afghan cross-border movements and assess access to territory.

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
Afghanistan - Post-Distribution Monitoring of Emergency Shelter and Non-Food Items - 2022

According to the Afghanistan Humanitarian Needs and Planned Response 2023, 28.3 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and 9.7 million are in need of Emergency Shelter and Non-Food Items (ES/NFI) assistance. A nation-wide post-distribution monitoring (PDM) was conducted to provide an independent evaluation of the ES/NFI assistance delivered by partners. The target population included households who received one of the following four types of assistance between August and November 2022: cash for shelter repair & upgrade, cash for rent, inkind shelter repair & upgrade, and in-kind NFI support. This assessment was conducted by phone between 11-22 December and reached 735 respondent. The survey found that 95% of all beneficiary households reported being overall satisfied (38%) or very satisfied (57%) with the assistance delivered. Cash was the preferred modality for 95% of beneficiary households and 75% of beneficiary households reported that the condition of their shelter had improved largely (41%) or moderately (34%) as a result of the assistance.

Tags: disability, elderly, health, water sanitation and hygiene-wash
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Afghanistan - Emergency Shelter Rapid Assessment Mechanism 2022

According to the Afghanistan Humanitarian Needs Overview 2023, 28.3 million people need humanitarian assistance with 9.7
million need Emergency Shelter and Non-Food Items (ES/NFI) assistance. The Rapid Assessment Mechanism (RAM) aims to provide a structured and
standardized approach to identify and prioritize the population most in need of ES/NFI assistance as well as to inform allocations. Two rounds of  data collection were
completed in April and November 2022. In March April 10,900 interviews were conducted by 38 partners. In the following 2nd round, 8200 interviews were conducted. The survey covered 109 prioritised sites.
84% of surveyed households reported that they were unable to repair their shelter because of financial barriers.  81% reported not having sufficient winter clothes and 77% reported not having enough
heating devices. Furthermore, 35% said they felt unsafe in their shelters.

Tags: facilities-infrastructure, non-food items-nfi, populated places-settlements, protection, shelter, water sanitation and hygiene-wash
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Thailand - Post Distribution Monitoring of Cash Based Intervention - 2022

UNHCR MCO Thailand conducted the Post Distribution Monitoring of Cash Based Intervention to consider how cash support was received and spent, perceived risks and problems associated with multi-purpose cash assistance, and the accountability of the programme to urban refugees. The PDM was conducted four months after the Royal Thai Government (RTG) announced in August 2022 that COVID-19 would be downgraded from a 'dangerous communicable disease' to a 'communicable disease under surveillance' as part of the country's plan to enter a normal endemic period. The improvement in the COVID-19 situation is considered to have contributed to a gradual return of employment and resumption of support from sources other than CBI for urban refugees.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, livelihoods, needs assessment, survey
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Latvia - Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA) - 2023

The 2023 Multi-Sector Needs Assessment in Latvia presents findings from an interagency assessment conducted from September to October 2023 with Ukrainian persons of concern in Latvia. The assessment aimed to understand the profiles and priority needs of households to inform future response plans. Using convenience sampling, the assessment surveyed 557 households representing 969 individuals. Data was collected through in-person mobile interviews by UNHCR, the Lithuanian Red Cross, GPB. Key topics included health, protection, education, livelihoods, and mental health. As a key source on urgent needs, the 2023 assessment provides insights into the experiences of Ukrainian persons of concern who have fled to Latvia.

Tags: cash voucher assistance-cva, education, food security, gender-based violence-gbv, health, livelihoods, mental health, needs assessment, protection
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Ukraine Situation Protection Profiling and Monitoring - Oct 2022 - Feb 2023

This comprehensive dataset provides invaluable insights into the evolving protection needs and integration challenges facing Ukrainian refugees several months into displacement in major host countries. It contains the results of 17,708 household interviews conducted by UNHCR and partners between October 2022 and February 15, 2023 across 5 key reception countries: Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.

The interviews were carried out through rigorous random sampling at strategically selected locations including border crossings, reception and transit centers, collective sites, and assistance points in major cities. The questionnaire was redesigned for this second round to focus on pressing longer-term issues like healthcare, education, employment, housing, and local integration.

While the sampling provides indicative findings only due to the non-probability approach, the dataset offers a rich evidence base to inform policy and programming. By comparing results over time with the first round (May-November 2022), researchers can analyze trends in refugees' situations, vulnerabilities, coping mechanisms, and unmet needs several months into displacement.

The data collection was part of UNHCR's comprehensive protection profiling and monitoring exercise implemented since May 2022 to regularly gather insights into Ukrainian refugees' evolving profiles, risks, and needs. Detailed methodology documentation is provided to support proper interpretation and ethical utilization of the data.

Tags: needs assessment, protection, refugees
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Socio-Economic Survey in Grand Kasai, 2022 - 2023

The World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center (JDC) provided his support for a household survey in the Great Kasai area in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) conducted by the UNHCR Sub Office Kananga in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics (INS). The main objective of the survey was to generate high-quality socioeconomic data to inform decision making and programming of humanitarian and development interventions and policy including UNHCR DRC’s core programing and multi-year strategy implementation as well as UNHCR Angola’s planning of voluntary repatriation. A wide range of stakeholders were consulted and involved from the design stage of the survey tools, including (but not limited to) the World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, IOM, WFP, FAO, UNFPA, the National Institute of Statistics (INS), the Provincial Ministries of planning, the Protection, Shelter and Health Clusters members and CRIs actors the Grand-Kasai-level. 

The data covers the following areas: land ownership, documentation, agro-pastoral activities, conflicts, employment and sources of income, household assets, consumption, savings, and credit, right to housing and habitat, access to basic social services and information, peace, security and peaceful cohabitation, physical and mental health, food insecurity, inclusion, and access to legal resources of the people for whom and with whom UNHCR works.


Tags: food security, livelihoods, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Guatemala - Results Monitoring Survey, 2022

The UNHCR Results Monitoring Surveys (RMS) is a household-level survey on people with and for whom UNHCR works or who benefit from direct or indirect assistance provided 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. This RMS took place in Guatemala in July 2022 at national level.


Tags: education, gender-based violence-gbv, health, livelihoods, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Ethiopia - Baseline-Endline Panel Survey of Refugee Cooperative Members in UNHCR Sub-office Operational Area of Melkadida, Ethiopia, 2023

This panel survey data covers two waves of interviews (baseline in 2020 and endline in 2023) with refugee participants in livelihoods cooperatives in Ethiopia's Somali Region. The cooperatives focused on crop agriculture, meat-selling, solar energy, and prosopis/briquettes. The surveys gathered demographic, socioeconomic, and health data on the individual participants. Baseline had 515 respondents, endline had 394, with 77% overlap between the two waves. The data is not representative of the general refugee population in the region. It provides insights into livelihoods programming for refugees in Ethiopia. 

Tags: agriculture-livestock, environment, food security, livelihoods, survey
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Trinidad and Tobago - Results Monitoring Survey, 2022

The UNHCR Results Monitoring Surveys (RMS) is a household-level survey on people with and for whom UNHCR works or who benefit from direct or indirect assistance provided 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. This RMS took place in Trinidad and Tobago from October 2022 to November 2022 at national level.

Tags: education, gender-based violence-gbv, health, livelihoods, needs assessment
Organization: UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency