Internally Displaced Persons
Key Facts
Abbreviation
IDP
Pronunciation
/ˌɪnˈtərnəli dɪˈspleɪst ˈpərsənz/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
United Nations
Examples in Context
- The reasons for the flight of refugees and internally displaced persons are generally same;
- In Sudan and South Sudan, we provide healthcare, sanitation and protection to millions uprooted from their homes by violence. And in Colombia, Haiti and Ecuador, aid workers deliver emergency assistance to internally displaced persons and refugees.
- Other issues being discussed at the conference include the humanitarian needs of migrants and internally displaced persons and ways to deal with the impact of war.
- To evaluate mortality and morbidity among internally displaced persons ( IDPs ) who relocated in a demographic surveillance system ( DSS ) area in western Kenya following post-election violence.
- Displaced Congolese children played among makeshift shelters at Kibati internally displaced persons camp, just north of the provincial capital of Goma.
Other meanings of IDP
Individual Defensive Player
Sports
Intelligent Document Processing
Business
Internet Datagram Protocol
Computing