CONTEXT AND METHODOLOGY
Kapoeta town is located in Kapoeta South County, Eastern Equatoria State, near Eastern Equatoria South Sudan’s border with Kenya. Since the beginning of the crisis in South Sudan in December 2013, Kapoeta town has been the gateway through which most internally displaced persons (IDPs) have passed on their way to refugee camps in Kenya.
This factsheet provides results from the REACH road monitoring exercise in Kapoeta town, Kapoeta South County. REACH monitors two car parks in Kapoeta town to record the arrivals and departures of South Sudanese returnee and IDP households (HHs) on a daily basis. Daily data is synthesized into a monthly factsheet to provide an overview of wider movement trends, including push/pull factors and intentions.
The following findings are based on primary data collected between 1 and 19 and between 29 and 31 March 2018, during which 61 departing HHs (241 individuals) and 41 arriving HHs (199 individuals) were recorded, along with 111 HHs (497 individuals) that were transiting through Kapoeta.1 Enumerators interviewed respondents who were arriving in and departing from both of Kapoeta’s two (Torit and Lokichogio) bus/ car parks. Respondents were selected based on pre-survey questions on motives of travel to ensure that only displaced people or returnees were interviewed. Not all entry points to Kapoeta town were covered systematically, and some arrivals and departures reportedly took place outside of data collection hours (7:00 a.m - 7:00 p.m).
Moreover, departures are over-represented due to many arrivals getting off buses early due to the matatu system.2 As such, the data presented in this factsheet is not representative, rather indicative of movement trends for the assessed population.