Geneva Call (GC) requested an analytical study of the safe return and reintegration of IDPs in the Iraqi governorates of Anbar, Nineveh, and Salahaddin to gain quantitative and qualitative data to better understand the challenges and barriers that IDPs face when returning into their area of origin.

Four experts and their team from the Erbil NGO, Statistics Organization for Society Support (SOSS), in cooperation with GC, conducted the study from October to February 2022. Primarily, the team worked in: Anbar, Nineveh, and Salahaddin to collect data from IDPs and Community members who already in the location.

This study served two main objectives. The first one was to provide GC in Iraq with quantitative and qualitative data to gain a better understanding of the overall challenges and obstacles that IDPs confront when returning and reintegrating into their areas of origin. The second objective was to diagnose the main barriers of returning and of effective integration through deeper data analyses of the collected qualitative and quantitative data.