With 250,000 Iraqis still living in camps after fleeing ISIS, sudden closure of 14 sites in late 2020 forced many to return to destroyed homes and villages lacking basic services.
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Guiding Principles and Strategy for the Rapid Response to Internally Displaced Iraqis Affected by Camp Closures and Consolidation Iraq Humanitarian Country Team, November 2020
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On 8 October 2020, the Government of Iraq announced that it would close all camps and informal sites hosting people internally displaced since 2014 by the end of the year. This re-started similar efforts made in previous years to consolidate and close camps. In early October 2020, approximately 250,000 of the remaining 1.3 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Iraq lived in 39 formal IDP camps, plus a number of smaller informal sites. By the start of December, at least 16 camps and sites had been closed, according to MoMD statements. This caused approximately 34,000 people to rapidly return to their home districts or secondarily displace without advance notice, preparation for alternative arrangements, or attention to basic principles on internal displacement and durable solutions. Only three c