Enhance data collection and provide urgent life-saving information on the multi-sectoral needs of internally displaced populations in Ethiopia. The proposed intervention will provide accurate and timely data on displaced populations and their urgent humanitarian needs to support well-informed coordination, multi-sector rapid response and protection of internally displaced persons in Ethiopia. With increasing displacement throughout the country due to the worsening drought and on-going conflict along regional and external border areas, ensuring continued and timely information dissemination on the urgent needs of displaced populations remains a priority of the Government of Ethiopia and humanitarian community. 

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has been tasked by the Ethiopian Humanitarian Country Team (EHCT) to regularly track, map and report on internal displacement through the implementation of its Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) tool. IOM’s DTM programme is implemented in collaboration with the national Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC), regional, zonal and woreda counterparts and implementing partners the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS).

In September 2016, IOM scaled up its institutional capacity and operational presence throughout the country with nation-wide DTM rolled out every two months (“Round”). DTM round assessments are conducted at Zone, Woreda and site level. Under the present project, IOM will continue conducting Baseline Area and Location Profiling (Zone / Woreda) as well as IDP Site Assessments further outlined below:

1)	Baseline Area Profiling and Baseline Location Profiling

Baseline Area and Location Profiling will be conducted to establish baseline information of IDPs across the country. The information will be collected from local key informants and the information gathered will include estimation of existence and number of the displaced populations at Zone (Baseline Area) and Woreda (Baseline Location) level disaggregated by type of temporary settlements as well as approximate locations of identifiable displacement sites. 

2)	IDP Site Assessment (Protection Enhanced)

In-depth IDP Site Assessment will be conducted based on the information gathered through the Baseline Location Porfiling. All displacement sites identified through Baseline Location Profiling will be targeted for IDP Site Assessments where data will be collected from key informants at site level.  

Each round of DTM will result in the production and dissemination of a national-level dashboard and regional reports. The information will be supplemented by IOM’s Emergency Tracking Tool (ETT) which captures new displacements between published rounds and is disseminated to partners.

Within the proposed project, the information gathered through two rounds of DTM will aim to assess the humanitarian multi-sectoral needs of approximately 700,000 internally displaced individuals. To achieve this, IOM will roll-out DTM every two months in collaboration with the Ethiopian Red Cross Society and Danish Refugee Council (with already existing partnership arrangements), IOM data enumerators and regional DTM assistants. During the collection of data, IOM will continue to implement its Emergency Tracking Tool (ETT) to provide a steady flow of information on new displacements to inform and enable humanitarian partners for immediate response.