UNHCR Protection Monitoring for Venezuelan Displacement in the Dominican Republic, 2020

UNHCR protection monitoring data from 2020 focuses on the situation of Venezuelan nationals displaced to the Dominican Republic. The outflow from Venezuela increased from about 700,000 people in 2015 to over 4 million by June 2019, straining host country capacities. This dataset is an action-oriented assessment of protection risks and needs to inform humanitarian responses.

Use Cases

• Assessing protection risks for displaced populations based on the monitoring activity described.
• Informing regional response strategies based on reported human rights violations and service access challenges.
• Analyzing host country capacity and border control measures mentioned in the crisis context.

Strengths

• Produced by UNHCR, a leading UN agency for refugee protection.
• Focuses on a specific, large-scale displacement crisis affecting over 4 million people by mid-2019.
• Data is action-oriented, designed to directly inform programmatic responses.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the 2020 monitoring period in the Dominican Republic.

Provenance

Source

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Collection Method

Protection monitoring, a core UNHCR activity for understanding the protection situation of forcibly displaced persons.

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:44:34.364668; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Dominican Republic, with context on Venezuelan displacement to Latin America and the Caribbean.