Tracking Displaced People in Mali

Abstract

The Data Demand and Challenge For decades prior to the 2012 rebellion, political leaders in northern Mali asserted that their people were marginalized and consequently impoverished. Separatist groups staged unsuccessful rebellions in 1990 and in 2007. In 2012, however, many of those fighting in the rebellion had received training from Gaddafi's Islamic Legion and were experienced with a variety of warfare techniques, and the rebellion that started with attacks on the Malian army in Menaka in mid-January 2012 culminated in a coup d'état by March 2012 and an attempt to take over the country by force. The three northern regions of Mali, Gao, Timbuktu, and Kidal became occupied by various rebel and Islamist factions until early 2013, when a coalition composed of the Malian 4

Measuring Poverty in Forced Displacement Contexts

“…This has encouraged scholars working on FDPs to develop new instruments to track people over time. Etang and Hoogeveen (2020) developed a survey known as the "Listening to Displaced People Survey (LDPS)", a survey that tracked living conditions of displaced people over time in Mali with a face-to-face baseline survey complemented by monthly follow-up mobile phone interviews for a period of 12 months. These data have been used by Hoogeveen, Rossi and Sansone (2019) to study patterns of return of the displaced and understand the factors that contribute to return.…”