1. The Displacement Tracking Matrix For Children on the Move

2. Background Grand Bargain IOM and UNICEF MOU (2006)
Essentially a ‘Grand Bargain on efficiency’ between donors and humanitarian organizations to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian action.
Reduce duplication and management costs
Improve joint and impartial needs assessments
IOM and UNICEF MOU (2006)
“Strengthen their relationship and their shared commitment toward improving the lives and well-being of children and families”.
Work stream II - Inter-cluster coordination and information management
Work stream III - Protection and assistance of Children on the move

3. DTM OPERATIONS OVERVIEW
Collaboration with DTM presents an opportunity to obtain the data that we need!
DTM OPERATIONS OVERVIEW

4. Components Data provided relevant to children on the move includes:
FLOW MONITORING
People on the move
MOBILITY TRACKING
Somewhat static populations: displacement sites, host communities, areas of return
Flow Monitoring Registry
Flow Monitoring Surveys
Event tracking
Is a methodological framework to capture and monitor displacement and population movements.
Can provide information on evolving needs of mobile populations in places of displacement or transit.
Is not designed to replace specialist assessments or programme monitoring.
Does not gather incident-specific data.
Data provided relevant to children on the move includes:
The numbers of people in transit or displaced
The push/pull factors leading to migration
Evolving needs
Issues with access to services
High-level information to alert of protection, GBV and child protection issues and trends for further, more specialised follow-up.
Baseline Area/Location
Site/community Assessment
REGISTRATION
SURVEY
Rapid Emergency Registrations
Context-specific

5. DTM data relevant to children on the move
DTM Flow Monitoring Reports, Event Tracking Reports
Programme planning
Early warning
Alerts for follow-up
DTM Flow monitoring surveys (mostly asked to adults)*
Profile of people in transit to address:
Potential barriers to accessing services
Planning: communication material, linguistic skills of staff
Information on potential CP issues to trigger CP assessments/ programme response/ advocacy
Child trauma: Time in transit, push factors of migration, issues faced now
Barriers of access to services in transit
Detention
Optional: questions on human trafficking.
* Not usually a representative sample of the migrant population
DTM Flow Monitoring Reports, Event Tracking Reports
Programme planning: scale of the displacement/migration, routes & destinations, estimated # of children
Early warning: Changed routes = need to ensure service provision in destination locations, increased flows = need to scale up activities.
Alerts for follow-up: Routes passing through dangerous areas, issues with freedom of movement, interpretation re: adequacy of humanitarian response.
DTM Flow monitoring surveys (mostly asked to adults)*
Profile of people in transit to address:
Potential barriers to accessing services
Planning: communication material, linguistic skills of staff
In LIBYA – knowledge of risks before moving, profiles of reasons for migration to advocate for refugee status.
Information on potential CP issues to trigger cp assessments/ programme response/ advocacy
Child trauma: Time in transit, push factors of migration, issues faced now
Exposure to violence
Barriers of access to services en-route
Detention
Optional: questions on human trafficking.
* Not a representative sample. Any numbers quoted must say “% of respondents reported” rather than “% of migrants/IDPs experience”.

6. DTM data relevant to children in displacement sites, host communities, areas of return
Baseline master-lists:
# of migrants/displaced/returned per site/community
Site assessments:
Programme strategy/planning: SADD, humanitarian needs, availability of services
Programme & advocacy response:
Accessibility of services (and barriers to access)
CP risks identified through protection mainstreaming (eg: lights in the camp, locks on the toilets)
KI’s knowledge of available CP services
CP assessment follow-up:
Reported CP issues/risks*
Unreported CP issues/risks
* DTM data on types of CP risks can be used as a red-flag for the need for follow-up assessments. Integrated analysis may help identify locations with higher risks to children due to poor living conditions and site layout.
Registration
SADD
Vulnerability categories (UASCs, child headed household, disabilities etc)
Duration that children have been out of school, level of education
Reporting where we are not
Scale for programme planning: # of migrants/displaced/returned per site/community
Unreported CP issues/risks (need for awareness raising campaign?)
* DTM data cannot be used as evidence that a CP risks exists because it is under-reported by Key Informants. Assume that CP risks exist/incidents are happening, and use this data as a flag for follow-up. Using data from other sectors (WASH, FSL, Shelter, CCCM) will help to identify service availability gaps, living conditions and site-layout issues that may result in increased risks to children.

7. DTM Within the Protection Information Management Process
DTM is one data provider within your overall information management system.
Can I get this data more accurately from another source? Like Government mapping of services, registration lists (UNHCR doesn’t really apply to cluster settings).
Assess Information landscape:
What exactly do I need to know for my cluster processes and response coordination (flash appeals, HNOs/SRPs, situational analysis, response coordination)? Consider for each:
What is my purpose for this data and who is the intended audience of this data (partners, donors, humanitarian community, Government).
What data do I need to present numerically to demonstrate the scale of the emergency (as a sum or percentage?)
What data do I need to enable me to better understand and describe the impact of the situation?
What data do I need to help me to coordinate partners for programmatic response?
Am I only collecting what is absolutely necessary? (Proportionality of data collection to meet needs).
How often do I need this data (just once, or on a regular basis to track trends?)
How will I use this data for cluster coordination, response and processes? (Be specific! Will it be aggregated in a report? Be used to understand what is happening for situational analysis? Trigger specialist response?)
Does this data already exist? (THINK accuracy: # vulnerable children may be more accurate from registration lists managed by the Gov or UNHCR)
Design IM Systems
Invite DTM to brief you and partners on the components that they are implementing & methodologies. Include protection cluster and GBV AoR.
Sharing pathways & timelines for sensitive data & data requiring urgent action (see Sensitive Data Sharing Guidelines…..[dropbox link])
How data will be shared (raw-data, semi-analysed (and if so, which data-sets)).
Feedback mechanisms to inform DTM on how you are using the data, challenges with data collection, and review the questions if necessary.
Develop IM systems
First consider:
DTM’s is designed to provide regular high-level snapshots of a humanitarian situation. It is not designed to replace specialist assessments, nor to map locations and functionality of service providers in an administrative area.
DTM does not interview children under the age of 14 years, nor does it collect protection incident data.
When discussing with the DTM Coordinator:
What methodology are they using, and will it provide the required level of accuracy for how intend to use the data? DTM Managers able to do quality control?
What methodology are they using calculate demographic breakdown in order to know the accuracy level? (Registration lists, sampling?)
What is the function of key informants, and at what level do key informants work at (site level data is more accurate than location-level, which is at a higher administrative level, like a municipality).
Humanitarian imperative: If DTM is functioning in an area where there are no CPAoR partners, consider the balance between the humanitarian imperative of requesting data on issues that we cannot respond to vs the need for data to advocate for programmatic expansion/funding.
Risk assessment of asking sensitive questions
How often do you need the data
Process and Analyze
DTM may or may not partially analyse data for you. It is up to YOU to interpret it.
Collaboration with DTM starts here

8. Lessons Learned: Designing the Questions
Will the answer tell me something I don’t already know?
Can I obtain more precise data from another source?
Use simple, clear language for ease and accuracy of translation.
Keep technical lingo, acronyms, and words influenced by cultural interpretation out of the question. Describe them instead.
Child
Replace “child” with minor/person/male/female “under the age of 18”
Child-headed household
Number of child-headed households (a household with adults who are unable to be the primary caretakers/livelihoods generators for the household, and in which a child under the age of 18 assumes this responsibility).
Unaccompanied Child
How many minors under 18 years are living with no mother, no father or any other adult relative members?
Separated Child
How many minors under 18 years are not living with their parents, however are living with other relatives?
Child Labor
Do you know any minors under the age of 18 in your community who have been involved in type of work that prevents them from going to school or puts their health at risk during the last month?
(May follow up with question on estimated numbers or % of boys and girls)
Data from other sources: mapping of services etc.
Harmful traditional practices/ child marriage. DTM is not designed to ask questions about coping mechanisms, and KI’s are biased when assessing the harmfulness of their own traditional practices.
Technical & cultural lingo:
Child
Unaccompanied child: Some cultures interpret this as any child who is not accompanied by a man (even if with a female family member).
Separated child: A foreign concept in some cultures who view any related child as equally part of the family as biological children.
Head of household: Is unclear for many on whether this is the economic-head of the household, or the oldest family member, the care-giver, the decision-maker or a combination of several of the above.
“association” with armed groups
For more examples, see Annex B in the DTM for the CP AoR guideline

9. Lessons Learned: Using DTM Data
Population numbers & demographic breakdown
Vulnerable population numbers
Child protection risk data & severity scales
When in doubt:
“How was the data collected, who was interviewed/what is their function?”
Demographic breakdown:
Can quote numerically. Methodology has an impact on accuracy: Registration? Sampling?
Vulnerable population numbers: Manage financial risk (of under-reported numbers that reduce the perceived scale of impact) vs reputational risk (if over reported)
Who is interviewed? Flow monitoring surveys: Was speaking with Uganda colleagues who wanted to ask whether unaccompanied girls were travelling from SS to Uganda, to find marriage as a coping mechanism. Who is normally interviewed? Will this person have knowledge of this issue?”
Key informants: what is their function? Can we add recommended key informants from local partners?
For more examples, see the FAQ on DTM for the CP AoR

10. How can you support DTM to obtain better data and do no harm?
Facilitate CP trainings
Keep DTM in the loop regarding referral mechanisms & available services
Offer to help review their internal urgent action process
Provide feedback on analysis issues, usefulness of data, recommendations for changing questions

11. DTM Displacement Website Collaborating with DTM: DTM&Partners Toolkit
DTM resources
DTM datasets and reports are on
DTM Displacement Website
Collaborating with DTM: DTM&Partners Toolkit

12. Contact
Shannon Hayes Skype: shannon.hayes1 Phone: