Registration, including birth registration, for all refugees is critical. UNHCR’s family counting
exercise which began on 3 October has now been completed. UNHCR teams continue to count
new arrivals and update the data for families who may move within settlements. In parallel, the
Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) is conducting biometrics registration for some 830,000 individuals,
including new arrivals. UNHCR will work jointly with authorities to update data records and share with
the authorities complementary data which UNHCR gathered on the location of individuals and on
family composition. This is expected to result in good data set that will enable UNHCR and the
authorities to better plan together, with other partners.
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21 Dec 2017 (4 days ago)
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/ Myanmar - Asylum-seekers