Ethiopia: Protection Monitoring and Solutions (PMS) Report #1 Tigray Region | Eastern Zone (February 2023)

In 2022, more than 200,000 IDPs returned to their place of origin in the Tigray region, and over 33,000 were assisted by UNHCR and partners with cash, NFI and transportation.

Genta Afeshum, Gulo Mekeda and Hawzen woredas in the North-eastern Zone of Tigray were selected for the pilot roll out of UNHCR’s new Protection Monitoring and Solutions (PMS) tools due to their high population of IDP returnees.

These tools include a key informant survey, focus group discussions (FGDs), facility mapping and observational checklists.

Objectives of the PMS include assessing the durability of the returns, social cohesion amongst communities and Housing, Land and Property (HLP) issues.

The counting of participants responses during the discussions helps to generate quantitative data and will help to track trends over the different data collection rounds.

Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees