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Internally Displaced Persons – 2007

According to the UN Office of Coordination and Humanitarian Affairs, the IDPs started to return spontaneously to Nepal due to improved security.¹ It was reported that the Maoists burdened the rehabilitation process because they did not fulfill their commitment to return captured property. Nevertheless, the government came up with an IDP policy and program in February. The government decided “to provide Rs300- Rs 1,000 per IDP as fare to return home, plane fare for the IDPs of Karnali from Nepalgunj, Rs 25,000 of loan without interest for crop and animal husbandry, Rs 10,000 to buy seed and sapling, Rs 15,000 for cattle, Rs 10,000 for every house exploded or torched and Rs 5,000 for repair work of the houses.”²

1. OCHA. 2007. “OCHA Nepal Situation Overview,” OCHA (Issue No. 9), December 2006.
2. “Human Rights Yearbook 2007,” Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC), 2008, 83.