Description of the Project:

This protection monitoring and returnees project seeks to monitor the displacements and movements of people into and within Somalia.  The project is a UNHCR/NRC-led project which dedicated for identifying and reporting on displacements caused by forced evictions, civil wars, drought and other humanitarian crises and providing support and response to underlying protection cases.

MRF is the only local PRMN partner of NRC in the districts of Nugaal region, Puntland of Somalia. The implementation of the project commenced in March 2017 and has been extended several times, this time, the project ended in December 2019 and it’s extended in 2020.  A total of 5 trained monitors are attached to MRF’s PMRN Project in the four districts of Nugaal region. The monitors are trained by NRC on PMRN data collection, reporting, database and are invited for quarterly coordination meetings, where the highlights and major issues affecting the work of monitors are discussed.

The PMRN data are collected through interviews and observation in the strategic travel routes of the big cities and districts including IDPs, transit camps and police stations. The trained PMRN monitors are assigned to collect information about displacements and evictions and identification of protection cases that require immediate medical treatments.