Additional Context: This information was collected by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, from a survey conducted with 17 humanitarian actors at the regional and field level. IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix, or DTM, is their system for tracking the location, scale, and needs of displaced populations to inform humanitarian response. Funding cuts have greatly reduced the DTM's capability due to reduced operational capacity.

Devex Researcher Note: Between 2024 and 2025, U.S. operational contributions to the IOM decreased by $795 million accounting for about 86.3% of its total funding decrease over this period. Although the IOM did not officially release a statement on the number of DTM teams or information managament officers affected, it is reported that early 2025 cuts, including a "major decrease in U.S.-funded projects worldwide," had a significant effect on the organization, which scaled back or terminated projects, and let go of 6,000 staff members with the goal to transition to "lower cost country missions." A senior data advisor at the IOM highlighted crises in South Sudan, Somalia, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to have been most affected by its information management-related cuts.

Source: OCHA