HIGHLIGHTS
Around 100,000 people were newly displaced in Kachin and Shan states in 2015; about 90 per cent have since returned home.
Almost 2,000 people remain displaced following armed conflict in southern Shan.
Six months on, humanitarian access to IDPs in the Sumprabum area of Kachin, remains restricted.
Cash grants are helping flood affected families in Rakhine recover.
Providing reproductive healthcare after the floods.
146 children released from Myanmar army in 2015.
FIGURES
# of IDPs in Kachin and Shan states 100,000
# of IDPS in Rakhine State 140,000
FUNDING
$ 190 million requested (US$) for 2015 Humanitarian Response Plan
50% funded $67.5 million Requested for Floods Response Plan
73 % funded
$186.9 million total humanitarian funding received for Myanmar
100,000 temporarily displaced by conflict in Kachin and Shan in 2015
New displacement is often temporary and is difficult to monitor In addition to the 100,000 conflict-affected people who have been living in camps in Kachin and northern Shan since 2011, around 100,000 people were temporarily displaced as a result of armed conflict in the two states in 2015. This includes the conflict in the Kokang Self-Administered Zone that broke out in February 2015, which resulted in over 13,000 people, primarily migrant workers, fleeing to other areas within Myanmar and up to 70,000 fleeing across the border into China. Most of these people subsequently returned, leaving only about 4,000 people still in China by the end of the year, according to local civil society estimates. It also includes over 10,000 people who were newly displaced in Kachin and northern Shan, in places like Hpakan, Sumprabum, Mohnyin, Mansi, Namhkan, Namtit, Muse and Kutkai, of whom over 6,000 subsequently returned to their places of origin, leaving over 4,000 still in displacement sites at the end of 2015. Over 6,000 people were also displaced in southern Shan as a result of fighting that broke out between the Myanmar Military and Shan State Army North (SSA-N) forces in Mongshu Township in early October. Most of these people subsequently returned, leaving less than 2,000 people still in IDP sites by the end of 2015.
New conflict-related displacement in Kachin and Shan states is often temporary, as the figures show. About 90 per cent of those reported to have been newly displaced in 2015 returned to their homes within days, weeks or months of being displaced, leaving only around 10 per cent of these people still in displacement sites at the end of 2015. New conflict-related displacement is difficult to monitor as it often occurs in areas where international organizations have limited access and sometimes it is the same people who are displaced multiple times. The figures reported here may therefore not reflect all displacements, returns and/or incidents in 2015, but provide a general overview of the situation.