IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows in Uganda

Daily updated provisional data on new internal displacements in Uganda caused by conflicts and disasters, provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The dataset focuses on displacement flows, representing the most recent available information updated daily since the beginning of 2025. Finalized and validated estimates are available in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD).

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on conflict and disaster events mentioned in the description.
• Analyze provisional displacement flows for early warning and response planning based on the daily update cycle.
• Cross-reference provisional IDU data with validated annual GIDD stock and flow estimates.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing timely event data.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Focuses on displacement flows, a key metric for humanitarian response.

Limitations

• Data is provisional and requires careful preprocessing to avoid double-counting.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Initial assessments aggregated from various publishers or sources.

Time Range

Data reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

Uganda