WHY A PROFILING? While a lot of information is available on IDPs and refugees residing in camps, less is known about those residing out of camps. Additionally, most of the existing information and responses are focusing on addressing the needs of either IDP or refugee populations, while the host communities, living along side these populations, do not receive as much attention. In order to address the need for an in-depth analysis of the out of camp displacement situation in the Erbil Governorate, it was decided to conduct a profiling exercise. To lead the exercise, a Profiling Steering Committee consisting of the Erbil Refugee Council (ERC) and UNHCR as initiators as well as the Joint Crisis Coordination Centre, Erbil Statistics Directorate (ESD), IOM, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNHABITAT and UNOCHA was set up. The profiling exercise aims to provide the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and humanitarian and development actors with an evidence-base for comprehensive responses to the displacement situation in Erbil Governorate.
