In mid-August 2014, the escalation of conflict in Iraq precipitated a large influx of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). This brought about the setup of several spontaneous settlements as well as the sudden development of a few planned camps across the region. In this context, REACH and the Camp […]
In late April 2015, the REACH Geographic Information System (GIS) team in Turkey launched a community-level Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) tracking map project. The aim of the project was to enhance the value of an IDP Tracking spreadsheet which was produced by the Camp Coordination and Camp Management Cluster (CCCM) to track notable displacements in […]
Building on the collaboration between REACH and the Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) cluster in Iraq throughout 2014-15, REACH has been partnering with the IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix team, camp managers and the CCCM Cluster in South Sudan since June 2015 to regularly produce standardised information products across the major displacement sites in the […]
Turkey: REACH presented new analysis to the Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) Cluster last week, which provides crucial information about sites for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Syria. The preliminary findings are part of a wider project to map camps and informal settlement sites, estimated to house some 50,000 displaced people in Aleppo Governorate alone, who have fled their […]
