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A total of 54 percent of internally displaced persons (IDPs) have money only for food or have to limit expenses even for food, according to a survey conducted in March by the EU-funded project on ‘Supporting Recovery and Sustainable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons and the Conflict-Affected Population in Ukraine’.

This is a 10 percent increase from the previous round of the survey in December 2017. The survey was conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Migration Agency. Some 2,420 IDPs were interviewed face-to-face and 3,611 IDPs were interviewed by phone.

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