Democratic Republic of the Congo Crisis Response Plan 2023

Last updated: October 19 2023
$164,500,000
Funding required
2,750,000
People Targeted

IOM Vision

In 2023, IOM seeks to respond to the critical needs of conflict-affected populations including internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities through the provision of multisectoral humanitarian assistance. IOM also aims to address complex conflict dynamics by creating the necessary conditions for peaceful coexistence through a holistic and multifaceted response at the local, provincial and national levels. Further, IOM will continue to support the government in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and other epidemics while contributing to strengthening the public health system.

Objective 1 - Saving lives and protecting people on the move
Objective
Saving lives and protecting people on the move

$85,500,000
Funding required
2,350,000
People Targeted
15
Entities Targeted
Internally displaced person, Local population / community
Primary target groups
Description of People and Entities Targeted

IOM will assist IDPs residing in sites, collective centers as well as in host communities, and the host populations, with a focus on vulnerable groups, with Shelters and Non-food items, services in Water, hygiene and sanitation, Camp coordination camp management, Mental health and psychosocial support and protection activities, particularly as the deteriorating security situation caused by the M23 crisis has continued to cause large-scale displacement and increased humanitarian needs in Eastern DRC. To address needs of the most vulnerable populations and affected communities, IOM will work in close coordination with the humanitarian community through the cluster system and Humanitarian country team, as well as with civil society organizations, NGOs, sister UN agencies and Government counterparts at national and provincial level. 
 

Funding confirmed 21%
79% Funding gap

Camp coordination and camp management

As the co-lead agency of the CCCM cluster and one of the very few actors covering CCCM and site management in the country, IOM will continue to strengthen its interventions in CCCM to ensure that protection and basic services to displaced populations are provided within displacement sites and host communities in Eastern DRC and other affected provinces and that living conditions in sites follow minimum standards. IOM will ensure that the provision of humanitarian assistance is coordinated through the CCCM Cluster, and that sectoral gaps and protection risks are identified in a community-based manner and shared with humanitarian partners for referral, addressing of needs, and/or advocacy. The basis of every humanitarian intervention being a verification of the population in need, including the different needs of different groups of the population, IOM will continue to ensure that data of the population living in sites under IOM's management are regularly updated and that specific needs and vulnerabilities are registered, and site profiles shared with partners for targeted interventions, in line with IOM Data Protection Principles. CCCM interventions will include:

  • Ensuring camp management services, and their coordination, are available for displaced populations residing in camps and camps-like settings.
  • Ensuring information management on IDPs and sites, including mapping of displacement sites, carrying out registration exercises and monitoring and updating data on new arrivals and departures of IDPs, vulnerability assessments, and intention surveys for durable solutions in coordination with the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Unit.
  • Facilitating the establishment of site governance structures, strengthening capacities of IDP committees, and ensuring meaningful participation and representation of women and other groups.
  • Supporting respective governmental partners to strengthen their role as camp administrators.
  • Implementing site planning/layout or site restructuring to ensure safe and dignified living solutions are in place and set up new sites for protection and assistance to most vulnerable IDPs in spontaneous displacement situations or to decongest collective centres, notably schools, as needed and diligently assessed to be a last resort and not to cause further harm. 
  • Implementing site planning/layout or site restructuring to ensure safe and dignified living solutions are in place and set up new sites for protection and assistance to most vulnerable IDPs in spontaneous displacement situations or to decongest collective centres, notably schools, as needed and diligently assessed to be a last resort and not to cause further harm. Advocating for land allocation and supporting the joint identification and assessment of suitable land to develop these new sites, while ensuring the newly established sites have exit strategies in place. 
  • Providing transportation assistance to displaced populations currently hosted in collective centres (schools, churches) to transfer them to existing or new displacement sites. 
  • Advocating for and coordinating efforts for informed and voluntary return, relocation and/or local integration for displaced populations (durable solutions) and accompanying IDPs towards achieving durable solutions.
  • Strengthening capacities in CCCM for communities, humanitarian partners and governmental entities.
  • Ensuring the cluster co-coordination role through co-facilitation of the Cluster with UNHCR, advocacy and coordination of actors and activities, including through coaching and capacity building, at national and provincial levels.
Funding required
$15,500,000
Funding confirmed
$3,423,021
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
22%
Funding confirmed
78%
Funding gap

Shelter and settlements

IOM DRC will continue implementing context-specific shelter interventions in displacement sites, host communities and areas of return/resettlement to support a minimum standard of dignified and safe living conditions, minimize health-related risks, and reduce protection risks, including gender-based violence (GBV). Based on community-based needs assessments, in 2023, IOM will continue targeting the most vulnerable IDPs residing in sites and in host communities in eastern DRC and affected provinces to provide them with emergency and transitional shelter solutions and non-food items (NFI) kits through various modalities, including in-kind and/or cash-based assistance. IOM will:

  • Using an inclusive approach, continue engaging beneficiaries in the design, implementation and evaluation of interventions to ensure context-specific shelter solutions (e.g. emergency shelter, transitional shelter, cash-based modalities) are provided.
  • Constructing communal emergency shelters (hangars) as a last resort to host displaced populations who must vacate collective centres (schools, churches) or while household shelters are under construction, as applicable.  
  • Distribute shelter construction materials or cash assistance for shelter while ensuring that materials used are adapted to the local context and quality standards and aligned with the Shelter Cluster guidelines and support construction, through engagement and active participation of the targeted populations, by providing technical training on safe construction to community members and ensuring that housing, land, and property issues are duly addressed.
  • Provide tailored assistance to vulnerable households (including persons with special needs, people with disabilities, women heads of households, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and people at risk) including support for labour costs to ensure that their shelter needs are met.
  • Distribute standard NFI kits (in-kind or in cash) to displaced households most in need, as per Sub-Cluster kit composition and guidelines.
  • Ensure protection mainstreaming including mitigation of GBV risks and accessibility throughout all shelter and NFI interventions.
Funding required
$30,000,000
Funding confirmed
$6,512,727
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
21%
Funding confirmed
79%
Funding gap

Provision of water, sanitation and hygiene in emergencies

IOM DRC will expand its WASH interventions to continue improving access to quality and safe WASH services for conflict-affected populations, as well as tackling the risk of outbreaks and water-borne diseases and improving hygiene practices in displacement sites, host communities and in areas of return as well as in communities affected by epidemics in eastern DRC and other affected provinces. Interventions that will integrate protection and gender-based violence (GBV) mitigation measures and promote accessibility, will include:

  • Ensure construction and/or rehabilitation of handwashing stations, showers, and latrines separated by gender, and equipped with locks and lights to reduce risks of GBV; as well as decommissioning of emergency sanitation facilities.
  • Build and/or rehabilitate water systems or networks notably with solar energy for water distribution; including boreholes, the construction/rehabilitation of water networks from water sources and mobilize water trucking, as necessary;
  • Ensure engagement and participation of the affected populations throughout the planning, construction, as well as maintenance of infrastructures, especially through community-based WASH committees in displacement sites;
  • Carry-out hygiene promotion activities in displacement sites based on a thorough understanding of hygiene knowledge, attitudes and practices of IDPs and host communities to minimize risks of waterborne diseases;
  • Provide WASH support in schools, in health facilities and at health screening points (point of entry-PoE, point of control-PoC);
  • Provide hygiene kits to displaced populations as well as Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Kits to displaced women and girls of menstruating age (between the ages of 12 and 49);
  • Strengthen the capacity of IOM personnel, partners, and committees, to ensure effective operation and quality of WASH infrastructures.
Funding required
$24,000,000
Funding confirmed
$3,082,841
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
12%
Funding confirmed
88%
Funding gap

Mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian response

IOM will provide community-based mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) services to conflict-affected communities with a focus on services which ensure a strengthened protection environment. All activities will be in line with the IASC MHPSS Guidelines in Emergency Settings (2007) and the IOM Manual on Community-Based MHPSS in Emergencies and Displacement (2021). Interventions will include:

  • Deployment of interdisciplinary psychosocial mobile teams (PMTs) to deliver psychosocial services (counselling, mediation, psychoeducation, creative and art-based activities, sports and cultural activities, sensitization, and informational activities) and promote an environment that can contribute to individual and community psychosocial wellbeing, as well as to support dialogue, mutual support, and social cohesion in divided and violence-torn communities.
  • Establishment of MHPSS hubs (temporary centres) in IDPs camps and host communities, engaging local resources and existing groups such as community focal points, volunteers, social and cultural activists, sports clubs and theatre ensembles, religious congregations and media networks (including community radios and social media).
  • Provide focused psychological services (such as individual and group counselling) to people with pre-existing and/or emerging forms of severe stress, behavioural and relational problems, and mental conditions and to survivors of violence.
  • Ensure referrals to specialized services and follow-up (case management) to individuals in need of mental health assistance that require psychiatric consultations and solution-based psychotherapies.
  • Strengthen the capacity of IOM personnel, civil society, and government partners in the field of MHPSS, including the promotion of a survivor-centred approach in the case of gender-based violence.
  • Strengthen the coordination capacities of MHPSS Technical Working Groups at national and provincial levels, providing technical assistance to institutional partners and engaging UN agencies and international NGOs in joint initiatives, particularly as far as capacity building, referral systems and advocacy initiatives are concerned.
Funding required
$8,000,000
Plan types

Protection

In a context of extreme violence with frequent human rights violations, IOM will contribute to the overall protection response through various activities. IOM will:

  • Promote protection and improve the well-being of crisis-affected vulnerable communities in sites by ensuring that people in need have access to quality protection services in a dignified manner, supporting the establishment or strengthening of protection committees in coordination with the Protection Cluster and assisting the protection committees with appropriate tools and capacity-building initiatives to enhance community-based protection structures.
  • Ensure the mitigation of protection/gender-based violence (GBV) risks through the provision of trainings/capacity building on protection and GBV, safety audits, and assessments, ensuring that protection, disability inclusion, GBV prevention and response and protection against sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) are mainstreamed throughout IOM’s response. Particular attention will be given to effective participation and empowerment of the community, ensuring that Complaint and Feedback Mechanisms (CFM) and other reporting mechanisms related to PSEA and the Child Safeguarding Policy are in place to prevent misconduct and guarantee accountability to the affected population, in line with the IOM AAP Framework.
  • PSEA will remain a key priority for the mission with a dedicated staff joining in early 2023 who will coordinate the training of all IOM staff and partners, lead sensitization campaigns among communities and contribute to inter-agency efforts.
  • Provide support to women and girls, including through addressing GBV, in line with IOM’s Institutional Framework to address GBV in crisis and distribute dignity kits to the most vulnerable women and girls.
  • Combat trafficking in persons (TiP) in crises, through the support of the National Agency for the Fight and Prevention of Human Trafficking for the development of a national strategy against TIP for conflict-affected communities, the mapping of services available, awareness-raising among communities at-risk and capacity-building of key government and non-government stakeholders.
Funding required
$7,000,000
Plan types

Humanitarian border management and services for citizens abroad

IOM will reinforce its border management programming by assessing capacity and supporting measures for border officials on humanitarian border management. IOM will:

  • Strengthen capacities of border officials on humanitarian border management, human trafficking, counter smuggling of migrants in crisis scenarios, international protection standards, child protection, and GBV prevention;
  • Reinforce awareness and adherence to refugee law including the 1969 Organization of African Unity (OAU) on refugees by ensuring appropriate application in contexts of complex and mixed movements and backed by technical guidance on inspection, screening, and referrals;
  • Support the establishment of communication channels and entry points for cooperative agreements between States, ie. Angola, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda), to maintain open borders and facilitate the movement of humanitarian goods and personnel;
  • Operationalize the curriculum on gender, human rights and border management already developed by IOM (through capacity building of law enforcement, and migration officials).
Funding required
$1,000,000
Plan types

Multi-sectoral support

Includes funding which supports multi-sectoral interventions or cannot be attributed to a specific activity area.
Funding confirmed
$5,772,559
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
Raising awareness on good handwashing among IDPs at the Likasi displacement site, Kalemie territory. © IOM 2022 / Daco Tambikila.
Raising awareness on good handwashing among IDPs at the Likasi displacement site, Kalemie territory. © IOM 2022 / Daco Tambikila.

Objective 2 - Driving solutions to displacement
Objective
Driving solutions to displacement

$57,000,000
Funding required
400,000
People Targeted
20
Entities Targeted
Former combatant / fighter, Internal migrant, Internally displaced person, Local population / community
Primary target groups
Description of People and Entities Targeted

Conflict displaced populations and/or communities affected by natural hazards, including IDPs, returnees, and host communities. IOM will also target former combatants and their dependents, as well as communities of return to address their needs and support community-based reintegration and reconciliation. People living in mining sites, with a focus on vulnerable populations such as youths and women, will be also targeted through programmes focussing on promoting local security, responsible minerals trade and good governance. 
 
To address underlying causes of conflict, IOM will work in close coordination with the national and provincial governments, civil society organization, Congolese national police, MONUSCO, and other relevant government entities such as PDDRCS.
 

Funding confirmed 40%
60% Funding gap

Community stabilization

IOM's community stabilization programme will continue to employ a coordinated and holistic approach including democratic dialogue, strengthening state authority, return, reintegration, and economic recovery, as well as responsible minerals trade.

In complement to the peacebuilding and peace preservation programming, this programme will be implemented in line with the strategy of the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Recovery, Community and Stabilization Programme (P-DDRCS) of the DRC government.

Strategic components of the programme include:

  • Promoting social cohesion through intra- and inter-community events and working towards common goals benefitting the whole of the community such as community infrastructure rehabilitation or livelihood cooperatives, in coordination with peacebuilding initiatives.
  • Increasing access to livelihoods and promoting economic recovery through interventions including cash-for-work, vocational training, reinforcing local markets and value chains and access to micro-credit.
  • Strengthening government capacities to perform core functions and deliver basic services through basic and senior training on police professionalization, local security diagnostics and inclusive and participatory governance principles (gender- and youth-sensitive).
  • Enabling communities to manage local conflicts by building their capacities for democratic dialogue, mediation, conflict sensitivity, early warning, prevention, and resolution.
  • Increasing confidence and mutual trust between the government authorities and the Congolese population through the promotion of inclusive and participatory governance processes, access to justice and the (re)establishment of the rule of law.
  • Promoting the rule of law through police professionalization and inclusive and participatory local security management.
  • Strengthening government capacities to ensure responsible minerals trade and promoting mutual sharing and protection of natural resources.
Funding required
$8,000,000
Funding confirmed
$3,682,472
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
46%
Funding confirmed
54%
Funding gap

Durable solutions

IOM will continue to support the achievement of durable solutions for IDPs and conflict-affected communities through the provision of immediate and longer-term support, in line with relevant frameworks on displacement, durable solutions, and the humanitarian-development peace nexus approach in the DRC. IOM will implement interventions in line with its Progressive Resolution of Displacement Situations (PRDS) framework for a broader and more inclusive approach. Interventions will be built upon the PRDS pillars: (1) protection, safety, and security; (2) an adequate standard of living (access to adequate food, water, sanitation and hygiene, housing, health services and education); (3) access to sustainable livelihoods; and (4) inclusive governance. These initiatives will include:

  • Support voluntary return, relocation, and reintegration for the displaced population through the provision of transportation assistance, multipurpose cash assistance, transitional shelter, and WASH assistance in the return/relocation area.
  • Advocate at various fora (e.g. UNCT, clusters, etc.), to donors, and local authorities for coordinated efforts and programming across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.
  • Provide (re)integration support activities such as public information campaigns and activities, strengthening community social cohesion (in coordination with the peace-building component).
  • Strengthen early economic recovery and value chains in order to reinforce livelihood opportunities by selecting adequate modalities such as in-kind or cash and vouchers (in coordination with the community stabilization component).
  • Establish an exchange platform for inclusive participation in the decision-making process.
  • Raise awareness of the government and humanitarian partners on international protection and assistance principles, including a module on site closure and durable solutions.
  • Use a data-driven approach in coordination with DTM to map out the durable solutions needs in communities of return and inform a holistic and sustainable (re)integration approach through the HDPN framework.
Funding required
$10,000,000
Funding confirmed
$2,350,282
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
23%
Funding confirmed
77%
Funding gap

Mental health and psychosocial support in transition and recovery

IOM will develop a MHPSS strategy to complement the transition and recovery programme in post-crisis communities. Initiatives will include:

  • Strengthen and implement community-based psychosocial support aiming at mending social fabrics and promoting social cohesion, including socio-relational and cultural activities built on existing practices in the targeted communities.
  • Support capacity-building of health professionals, local police, and security actors on mental health issues and skills such as the psychological first aid (PFA) approach, basic MHPSS concepts, stress management, communication skills, and so forth.
  • Provide MHPSS for former combatants, including supporting facility-based and community-based approaches that aim at addressing mental health disorders as well as accompanying the reintegration of combatants within the family and wider community circles, to protect and promote the well-being of both the individual and the community, and address stigma and isolation.
Funding required
$5,000,000
Plan types

Peacebuilding and peace preservation

In complement to its community stabilization projects and based on the lessons learned from IOM’s durable solutions approach, IOM will strengthen and expand its Disarmament, Demobilization, Reintegration, Reconciliation and Resettlement (DD/RRR) programming. The programming will use a community-based approach in line with the national and provincial operational strategies of the DRC Government’s Disarmament, Demobilization, and Recovery, Community and Stabilization Programme (P-DDRCS). This will include the following programmatic elements as part of the peacebuilding and peace preservation programme:

  • Supporting community-based planning to ensure locally driven, and owned, (re)integration of former combatants based on the local governance processes under the community stabilization programming;
  • Implementing rehabilitation/construction of priority community infrastructures through a cash-for-work approach for early economic recovery and as symbolic reparations for conflict-affected communities;
  • Providing community-based and community-centred socio-economic (re)integration support to ex-combatants and their dependents;
  • Supporting voluntary repatriation and resettlement of foreign ex-combatants and their dependents;
  • Supporting provincial, national and regional coordination mechanisms to facilitate effective planning, implementation and monitoring of community-based reintegration of ex-combatants and their dependents;
  • Based on the lessons learned of durable solutions programming, employ the DTM durable solutions index for data-driven programming according to local needs and priorities.
Funding required
$12,000,000
Funding confirmed
$189,811
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
1%
Funding confirmed
99%
Funding gap

Health system strengthening

IOM will support the implementation of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) to prevent or mitigate the impact of outbreaks and public health hazards, rapidly detect and report outbreaks when they occur, and employ an interconnected global network that can respond effectively to limit the spread of infectious disease outbreaks in humans and animals, mitigate human suffering and the loss of human life, and reduce economic impact. This will include efforts to:

  • Strengthen capacities of PoE frontline workers on integrated disease surveillance and response along mobility corridors and IDP host communities through training to build International Health Regulations (IHR) capacities at designated PoEs;
  • Provide technical support to facilitate coordination and information sharing data between DRC and neighbouring countries;
  • Strengthen partnerships between PoE and health structures through the establishment of SOP and partnership agreements;
  • Provide technical support to facilitate coordination and information sharing data between DRC and neighbouring countries;
  • Support a well-functioning health information system that ensures the production, analysis, and dissemination of information for PoEs and health facilities, including integration data into the District Health Information Software (DHIS) platform along the mobility corridors and IDP host communities;
  • Provide permanent water sources and independent sources of energy in the health facilities along mobility corridors and IDP host communities;
  • Enable access to routine vaccines and technologies for migrants, IDPs and host communities to ensure quality, safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness;
  • Improve access to public health services to migrants and mobile populations through technical support (development of strategies and standard operating procedures), strengthening the capacity of health services in migrant-dense areas/IDP host communities via training health personnel, rehabilitating health facilities andproviding necessary supplies and equipment.
Funding required
$22,000,000
Funding confirmed
$16,834,930
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
76%
Funding confirmed
24%
Funding gap

Objective
Strengthen preparedness and reduce disaster risk

$7,500,000
Funding required
500
People Targeted
20
Entities Targeted
Internal migrant, International migrant, Local population / community
Primary target groups
Description of People and Entities Targeted

To mitigate the impact of climate, natural hazards, and public health events with international concern, IOM will support the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Interior, and Civil protection as well as national NGOs and civil society organizations to strengthen preparedness and disaster risk reduction. Initiatives will target health officials working at points of entry and health facilities at borders and along major mobility routes, leaders of communities affected by disaster, public health outbreaks, and climate risk.

Health components of preparedness and risk reduction

IOM will support the Ministry of Health to develop emergency preparedness plans, including identifying emergency public health risk reduction and prevention measures, and foster a migration-sensitive approach to preparedness and risk reduction in line with and based on the IOM Health Border and Mobility Management (HBMM) Framework. The intervention will include:

  • Improve data collection and evidence on the links between mobility and public health emergencies through population mobility mapping exercises, studies, and flow monitoring.
  • Strengthen epidemiological surveillance at points of entry and along mobility corridors to prevent, detect and respond to disease outbreaks.
  • Support COVID-19, Ebola virus disease, cholera and other communicable disease preparedness and response with a focus on preventing and monitoring risks of epidemic spread across borders and along major mobility routes in the country.
  • Support the development of strategies and mechanisms to improve community event-based surveillance (CEBS) in border, host and migrant-dense communities.
  • Support the implementation of public health measures such as COVID-19 vaccination at points of entry and IDP camps.
  • Support outbreak preparedness and response through strengthening infection prevention and control, disease surveillance among displaced populations, and vaccinations in the most affected health zones, and reinforce event surveillance capacity for early case detection of communicable diseases (such as cholera and other waterborne diseases, measles, COVID-19, and malaria).  
  • Identification of points of congregation through population mobility mapping exercises in areas at risk of outbreaks, i.e., markets, as well as areas of high concentration of displaced people in host families, to implement: Risk communication and community engagement to inform public health interventions.  
  • Support the establishment of Rapid Response Teams (RRT) in the most affected health zones through the provision of training for first-line responders in first aid and psychological first aid (PFA).  
  • In addition, where gaps exist, procure and distribute essential medical commodities as well as build capacity in the most affected health zones with a high concentration of displaced populations to improve the quality of essential primary healthcare (including sexual and reproductive health). 
Funding required
$6,000,000
Plan types

Emergency preparedness

IOM provides support in participating in the development of the preparedness capacity of government and non-government partners in humanitarian response and assisting vulnerable populations who are likely to be severely affected by the impact of disasters and crises. IOM’s initiatives will include:

  • Providing training on disaster risk reduction (DRR) to crisis-affected communities in line with CCCM and evacuation, shelter response and recovery programmes including Mass Evacuation in Natural Disasters (MEND) training.
  • Strengthening the capacity of government officials at the national and sub-national levels on disaster preparedness and climate change adaptation.
  • Supporting the drafting, reviewing and updating of local policies on disaster risk reduction and management and climate change adaptation plans taking into account mobility dimensions through the provision of training, equipment and tools.
  • Conducting awareness and advocacy work on policies and research findings related to climate change adaptation in DRC.
  • Conducting consultations with communities vulnerable to climate risk and mobility to develop community action plans that identify localized climate adaptation strategies and provide technical assistance to implement these plans. 
Funding required
$1,500,000
Plan types

Objective
Contribute to an evidence-based and efficient crisis response system

$14,500,000
Funding required
At risk communities
People Targeted
70
Entities Targeted
Internal migrant, Internally displaced person, International migrant, Local population / community, Refugee
Primary target groups
Description of People and Entities Targeted

IOM will collect, analyse, and disseminate data on all displaced populations in DRC in 2023 and share the updates with partners from the Government, the national and international NGOs, development, and health actors as well as the humanitarian community.  

Funding confirmed 14%
86% Funding gap

Displacement tracking

In 2023, IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) will continue tracking and monitoring populations’ movements across DRC. The DTM response will focus on providing mobility tracking, event tracking, site assessment, flow monitoring and registration activities to support IOM’s internal emergency intervention as well as in response to partner requests for data, especially for humanitarian and early recovery planning and programming, positioning DTM in DRC as the main or only provider/source of mobility and displacement data in the country.  Information products including beneficiary lists, maps, population data and information on needs and gaps in service provision, in accordance with IOM’s data protection principles will be shared timely with humanitarian actors via the DTM mailing list and the Information Management Working Group, as well as uploaded on the DTM webpage. IOM aims to continue expanding different components of its DTM, focusing on mobility tracking, registration of IDPs including biometrically when required, surveys and assessments, including on intentions vis-a-vis durable solutions and vulnerability assessments, in close coordination with the CCCM Cluster, flow monitoring, and emergency tracking. Interventions will include:

  • Regularly monitor populations’ movements and provide the humanitarian community with a comprehensive picture of the figures, profiles, and needs of displaced populations and returnees including information regarding areas hosting displaced populations.
  • Following alerts on new populations’ movements, carry-out emergency tracking surveys to rapidly collect information on the numbers of newly displaced persons, areas of origin, locations of displacement and humanitarian assistance required and triangulate information from surveys conducted by other partners to update the overall IDPs’ database and regularly provide accurate information on overall displacements.. In Goma and other territories receiving or hosting IDPs, regularly capture essential information on displaced populations seeking refuge in collective centres, spontaneous sites, and host communities through the development of crisis analysis.
  • Produce and update maps of IDP sites and return/relocation villages and share them with the humanitarian community.
  • Conduct registration of internally displaced populations in sites and collective centres to enable an understanding of vulnerabilities faced and to inform humanitarian assistance and the transfer of IDPs to new sites, when applicable, as well as intention surveys on durable solutions and ad hoc thematic assessments, when required, such as on accountability. 
  • Conduct village assessment surveys (VAS) to collect data on returning IDPs, returned migrants and host community members as part of the durable solutions strategy to improve access to services and livelihoods and facilitate reintegration.
  • Conduct Multi-Sectoral Location Assessments (MSLA) to provide in-depth and cross-sectoral information on populations’ needs in priority locations (in areas of displacement or return), including areas that may not be accessible to partners, as the situation evolves.  
  • Continue to support preparedness and response to health emergencies including Ebola virus disease (EVD), COVID-19, cholera and other emerging epidemics. This includes the assessment at the village level of the availability of health facilities and COVID-19 awareness among the surveyed communities.
Funding required
$14,500,000
Funding confirmed
$2,052,327
Last updated: 12 Jan 2024
Plan types
14%
Funding confirmed
86%
Funding gap
Operational presence in

Democratic Republic of the Congo

35
International staff and affiliated work force
187
National staff and affiliated work force
10
IOM field office

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