SUD, IOM, Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM)
Sudan is facing one of the world’s largest displacement crises, with millions displaced by conflict, insecurity, and collapsing services, while shifting frontlines drive returns and highly fluid population movements. IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) provides the only nationwide system to monitor these dynamics in real time. The project ensures continued collection, analysis, and sharing of critical data across all 18 states, while strengthening early warning through rapid alerts and data from key border points. This enables humanitarian actors to respond quickly and effectively to evolving needs.
| Country/region | Topic | Period | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Sudan |
Migration and Development Education
Migration generally (development aspects and partnerships)
Education facilities and training |
01.07.2026
- 31.12.2026 |
CHF 500’000
|
- International Organisation for Migration
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Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
EDUCATION
Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation Facilitation of orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility
Education facilities and training
Aid Type Project and programme contribution
Project number 7F11759
| Background |
Since the outbreak of conflict in April 2023, Sudan has become the site of the world’s largest displacement crisis, with 12 million people displaced internally at its peak in January 2025 (8.8 m as of May 2026). Humanitarian needs remain immense, affecting an estimated 33.7 million people, while civilians continue to face severe protection risks and violations. The crisis has also spilled across borders, with neighbouring countries such as Chad, South Sudan, Libya, and Egypt hosting 4.5 million refugees and returnees, many of whom face significant risks and lack basic services. At the same time, 4.2 m people have returned to their areas of origin including 618’000 from abroad, despite fragile conditions, damaged infrastructure, and limited access to services. These complex and overlapping movements - ongoing displacement, cross-border flows, and returns - are placing significant strain on already vulnerable systems and underscore the need for timely, coordinated humanitarian responses. |
| Objectives | Contribute to a more effective, accountable, and evidence based humanitarian response in Sudan by ensuring that responders have access to reliable, timely, and protection sensitive data on displacement, returns, and population needs. |
| Target groups | Primary beneficiaries are humanitarian and recovery actors (UN agencies, international and national NGOs, government institutions, and local authorities) using DTM data for planning and decision-making. Indirect beneficiaries include IDPs, returnees, migrants, and host communities across all 18 states. Special focus is placed on vulnerable groups: women, men, girls, boys, elderly persons, female-headed households, populations in hard-to-reach or conflict-affected areas, and those with limited access to basic services or exposed to protection risks and shocks. |
| Medium-term outcomes |
Objective (impact level): Improve humanitarian response in Sudan through timely, reliable, and protection-sensitive data on displacement, returns, and needs. Outcome: Strengthened systems for monitoring displacement and returns, enabling trend analysis, early warning, and better preparedness and recovery planning. |
| Results |
Expected results: Regular reporting: Mobility Tracking (4), Flow Monitoring (2), Early Warning Alerts (37). Capacity building: 1 refresher training for field staff and enumerators. Results from previous phases: This is SDC’s first contribution to DTM Sudan. DTM Sudan has established and sustained the only ationwide displacement monitoring system covering all 18 states, monitoring over 12,000 locations and producing nearly 1,000 information products since April 2023. The data has become central to humanitarian coordination, early warning, and response planning, providing reliable, timely, and protection-sensitive evidence on displacement, returns, and shocks in a highly fluid conflict context. |
| Directorate/federal office responsible |
SDC |
| Project partners |
Contract partner United Nations Organization (UNO) |
| Coordination with other projects and actors |
IOM’s DTM ensures comprehensive data collection and analysis serving national and state authorities, UN agencies, NGOs, and donors – including strategic and operational partners of Switzerland – in support of planning, early warning, and response prioritization. The intervention is further embedded in key coordination platforms (Information Management Working Group, Inter-Cluster Coordination Group, sector working groups), ensuring alignment, avoiding duplication, and strengthening evidence-based humanitarian action. |
| Budget | Current phase Swiss budget CHF 500’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF 300’000 Total project since first phase Swiss budget CHF 0 Budget inclusive project partner CHF 500’000 |
| Project phases | Phase 1 01.07.2026 - 31.12.2026 (Current phase) |
