Table of Contents
|| Foreword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
|| Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
|| Key messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Part 1
On the GRID: Internal displacement in 2016 . . . . . . . . 9
|| Key findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
|| Conflict and violence: New displacement in 2016. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Sub-Saharan Africa: overtaking the Middle East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
|| Democratic Republic of the Congo:
An overlooked displacement crisis tops the global figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Middle East: less displacement, but unceasing conflict. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
|| Syria: Behind borders, under siege and out of reach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
|| Iraq: After ISIL the real challenge begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
19
Under-reported: displacement by generalised violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
21
|| El Salvador: Invisible displacement by criminal and gang violence . . . . . . . . . 22
|| Conflict and violence: Total number of IDPs as of end 2016. . . . . . . . . . 25
Twice the number of refugees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Intractable conflicts and poor capacity to cope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Inconsistent monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
|| Colombia: Tackling protracted displacement post-conflict. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
|| Disasters: New displacement in 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Extreme weather events drive up the numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
|| Hurricane Matthew: Impact across the Americas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Uneven distribution across incomes and regions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Slow-onset disasters and multiple drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
|| Horn of Africa: Multi-causal displacement in the context of drought. . . . . . . . 40
|| Disasters: Total numbers and future risk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Towards a global headcount of disaster displaced people. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
|| Japan: Psychosocial impacts of prolonged disaster displacement. . . . . . . . . . 43
Global disaster displacement risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
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GRID
2017