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Disaster Displacement

The Context

Every year, millions of people are forced to leave their homes because of floods, tropical storms, droughts, glacier melting, earthquakes and other natural hazards. Many find refuge within their own country, but some have to move abroad. Scientists warn that climate change is projected to increase displacement in the future. Large-scale displacements have devastating effects on people. They create complex challenges that call for urgent partnerships and action beyond traditional silos.

Our Response

The objective of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) is to follow-up on the work started by the Nansen Initiative, and to implement the recommendations of the Protection Agenda, a toolbox to better prevent and prepare for displacement and to respond to situations when people are forced to find refuge, within their own country or across the border. The PDD builds partnerships between policymakers, practitioners and researchers and constitute a multi-stakeholder forum for dialogue, information sharing as well as policy and normative development.
It is led by Kenya and Costa Rica.

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Reporting Back – A Human Rights-Based Approach to Planned Relocations in the Context of Disasters and the Adverse Effects of Climate Change

Reporting Back – A Human Rights-Based Approach to Planned Relocations in the Context of Disasters and the Adverse Effects of Climate Change

21 June 2024, Geneva, Switzerland – The Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and the Special…

Colombia Hosts Workshop on Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change

Colombia Hosts Workshop on Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change

Bogotá, Colombia, 20-21 May 2024 – The National Planning Department of Colombia (DNP), with the…

In Conversation With… Ms. Eve Mosher

In Conversation With… Ms. Eve Mosher

During the Global Forum for Migration and Development (GFMD) Summit in Geneva in January 2024, PDD partnered with DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to present a Marketplace booth exhibition that featured contemporary and socially engaged art projects that seek…

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