Internally Displaced Persons – 2001
2001
Over the years the security situation improved, especially with the initiation of a follow-up committee seeking to identify, disarm, and demobilize the combatants. A project was launched by the UNDP with the IOM at the request of the government, which aimed to disarm and reintegrate ex-combatants and provide training and micro-projects. The program was also supported by the World Bank’s five million dollar credit support to the newly formed Haut Commissariat pour la Démobilisiation et Reinsertion des ex-Combatant in July 2001. These programs were important given the displacement caused by sporadic violence as well as the displacement of former combatants. However, sporadic violence made displacement more frequent, and by the end of 2001 there were 139,000 IDPs.1