Research, evaluation and surveys
Rapid assessment of COVID 19 impacts on returnee migrants and local-government responses
In just over two weeks in mid-2020, Anweshan surveyed 730 municipalities across all 77 districts for IOM to find out how local governments were handling returning migrants during COVID-19.
- Completed
- 2020
- International Organization for Migration Nepal
- Nationwide, Nepal
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Overview
By phone, the team interviewed chief administrative officers, information officers and health coordinators about quarantine sites, patient transport, stigma, livelihoods and reintegration plans. The August 2020 report gave IOM and the government a nationwide picture of the local response in the first months of the pandemic.
Expertise
- Household and facility surveys
- Data management and analysis
- Landscape and situation analysis
How we worked
- 01
Designed a phone survey for chief administrative officers, information officers and health coordinators.
- 02
Surveyed 730 municipalities across all 77 districts in just over two weeks.
- 03
Analysed responses on quarantine, patient transport, stigma, livelihoods and reintegration.
What it produced
- National report (August 2020) on local-government responses to returning migrants
- Municipality-level dataset for IOM and the government