Sri Lankan Refugee Returnees Monitoring Data from 2019-2020

UNHCR collected protection monitoring data for Sri Lankan refugee returnees who returned in 2019 and 2020. Fieldwork was undertaken in 2021 and 2022 in Jaffna and Colombo after the easing of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data assists UNHCR in improving the protection environment and providing counsel on repatriation challenges.

Use Cases

• Assess protection risks for returnees based on monitoring data
• Analyze trends in voluntary repatriation following the 2009 conflict
• Evaluate the impact of UNHCR interventions on the returnee environment
• Identify challenges linked to repatriation for counseling purposes

Strengths

• Data collected by UNHCR protection and field teams in Jaffna and Colombo
• Focuses on returnees from two specific years (2019 and 2020)
• Fieldwork conducted in 2021 and 2022, providing recent insights

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 bias inherent to fieldwork in Jaffna and Colombo

Provenance

Source

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Collection Method

Survey collected by protection and field teams

Time Range

Returnees from 2019 and 2020; fieldwork in 2021 and 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 14:10:33.998456; freshness should be verified

Geography

Sri Lanka, specifically Jaffna and Colombo