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We also asked each interviewee tothink of specific cases to flag for furtherresearch and potential addition toour database. The interviews concludedwith questions about additional sourcesto supplement the literature review andsuggestions of other potential contacts.We conducted 21 interviews with expertsat academic and research institutions,and practitioners in the fields ofhumanitarian disaster response, protection,human rights and development. Weinterviewed six key informants from UNagencies and other international organisations,six from university-affiliated researchinstitutes, four from internationalNGOs, three from the intergovernmentalNansen Initiative and two from think tanks(see acknowledgements at the front ofthis report).We also targeted 11 IOM country officesbased on references to protracted displacementidentified in their publications, includingAfghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia,Madagascar, Micronesia, Mozambique,Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippinesand Sri Lanka. Ten of the 11 offices knewof current cases in their countries. Someevidence was more formally documentedthrough the displacement tracking matrix(DTM) and official publications, while otherevidence was based on personal observationsand common knowledge, and wasmore anecdotal in nature. We also reachedout to a selection of in-country humanitarianprotection clusters and received additionalinformation from Haiti, Tonga, SolomonIslands, and Colombia.Logging ongoing casesThe literature review and interviewsyielded 66 cases of displacement associatedwith disasters that had lasted forlonger than one year. We then filtered thesample looking for examples that werestill ongoing in 2014/2015. This narrowedit down to 34 cases, which are detailedin annex C.We have added these cases to our database,along with others which have lessclearly defined start dates, and/or whichwe were unable to establish as ongoing.Together with further qualitative researchon the dynamic nature of protracted situations,they will provide a starting point forour monitoring and analysis of this typeof situation.Annexes87