Profiling urban areas (Refugees, IDPs and Host Community) in Erbil Governorate

WHY A PROFILING?
While a lot of information is available on IDPs and refugees residing in camps, less is known
about those residing out of camps. Additionally, most of the existing information and
responses are focusing on addressing the needs of either IDP or refugee populations, while
the host communities, living along side these populations, do not receive as much attention.
In order to address the need for an in-depth analysis of the out of camp displacement
situation in the Erbil Governorate, it was decided to conduct a profiling exercise.
To lead the exercise, a Profiling Steering Committee consisting of the Erbil Refugee Council
(ERC) and UNHCR as initiators as well as the Joint Crisis Coordination Centre, Erbil Statistics
Directorate (ESD), IOM, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNHABITAT and UNOCHA was set up.
The profiling exercise aims to provide the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and
humanitarian and development actors with an evidence-base for comprehensive responses
to the displacement situation in Erbil Governorate.