Reports
Reports
MRP Communications Strategy 2023-2024
The Communications strategy was developed by MRP Partners to enhance the visibility of the MRP framework and its beneficiaries. The MRP is an inter-agency and inter-regional plan that brings together 48 organizations to provide humanitarian and development support and ensure continuity of services to the migrants and host communities along the Eastern Route that runs from the Horn of Africa to Yemen. The route-based MRP also seeks to address the adverse drivers of irregular migration and promotes a whole-of-government and whole-of-society response to the Eastern Route migration challenges.The communications strategy for the MRP offers a strategic approach to raising awareness and understanding the MRP Framework and the situation facing migrants along the Eastern Route by utilizing the power of communication and outreach, through media engagement, content production, use of social media, campaigns and events, goodwill ambassadors and high-profile supporters. -
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MRP 2023 Mid-Year Review January - June 2023
The Regional Migrant Response Plan (MRP) partners observed continued outflows between January and June 2023, along the Eastern Route, with 71,824 departing migrants recorded from Ethiopia into Djibouti and 8,830 migrants into Somalia.Furthermore, 77,130 migrants were observed arriving in Yemen, of which 81 per cent departed from Djibouti and 19 per cent from Somalia1. According to the research conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Regional Data Hub (RDH) surveying 814 migrants exiting Ethiopia in June 2023, the top three drivers of irregular migration included economic reasons (80%), conflict (8%), and climate change and environmental factors (7%). -
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MRP 2022 Quarter 4 Report
During the reporting period, MRP partners observed 45,948 migrants departing from Ethiopia, of these 40,691 entered Djibouti, giving a total of 256,288 migrants having left Ethiopia and Somalia in 20221. According to research conducted by IOM’s Regional Data Hub surveying 854 migrants in December 2022, the majority (83%) of the migrants reported leaving due to economic reasons, approximately five per cent cited conflict; five per cent cited climate change and environmental factors as reasons for leaving; and four per cent indicated marriage and/or family reunification as the main motivation for migrating. -PUBLICATION
MRP 2022 Quarter 3 Report
In the third quarter (Q3) of 2022, MRP partners observed the continued movement of migrants through the Eastern Migration Route, with 181,797 migrants leaving Ethiopia since the beginning of the year. Seventy-nine per cent of the 875 migrants departing Ethiopia surveyed by IOM’s Regional Data Hub mentioned economic reasons as the primary motivation to migrate, while another eight per cent indicated that they were migrating due to climate change and environmental factors. -PUBLICATION
MRP 2022 Quarter 2 Report
Since the beginning of the year, an estimated 64,000 migrants have entered Djibouti, showing a 48 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2021. In line with the agreement signed between the governments of Ethiopia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to return 102,000 migrants over seven months from 30 March 2022, 43,199 involuntary returns were recorded in Q2, amounting to an average of almost 3,500 migrants per week. -PUBLICATION
MRP 2022 Quarter 1 Report
During the first quarter of 2022, 73,225 individuals were registered at flow monitoring points along the Eastern Route1. IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) recorded an estimated 19,662 migrants arriving from the Horn of Africa to Yemen during Q12, equaling a monthly average of almost triple that reached in 2021. -PUBLICATION
RMRP 2021 Quarter 4 Update
The fourth quarter of 2021 saw 4,826 migrants moving from Somalia to Yemen compared to 2,586 migrants in the third quarter, likely due to an improvement in weather and sea conditions. At the end of December 2021, an estimated 35,000 migrants were stranded and required humanitarian support in different parts of the northern governorates in Yemen.Migrants in Sa’ada governorate reported a limitation of their freedom of movement as they were rounded up from the streets and transported to detention centres before being transferred
to the southern borders, mainly in the Taiz governorate. -
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RMRP 2021 Quarter 3 Update
As of 30 September 2021, 993 migrants on their way to the Arabian Peninsula were stranded in Djibouti and gathered in 11 spontaneous sites along the migration route. In Somalia, an estimated 444 migrants remain stranded in and around Bossaso, unable to continue with their journeys or return home. -PUBLICATION