Launch of the Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund Regional Joint-Programme Addressing Drivers and Facilitating Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in the Contexts of Disasters and Climate Change in the IGAD Region Online, at 1pm EAT/12pm EST Please join the event by…
Risk Management and Human Mobility: Action and Support to Avert, Minimize and Address Displacement Related to the Adverse Effects of Climate Change Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week 2021, hosted by the Government of the Dominican Republic 11 May…
On 27 April 2021, over 140 researchers and practitioners working across Africa, gathered online during the opening plenary of the Virtual Workshop Series on ‘Developing a Research and Policy Agenda for Addressing Displacement and Migration in the Context of Disasters…
Are you wondering how to address displacement in your disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and practices? Would you like to learn more about how to reduce displacement risk, address displacement impacts and strengthen resilience? The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the…
As hazards, disasters and climate change profoundly affect people’s lives and livelihoods, attention is turning toward opportunities to move people permanently out of harm’s way. Most commonly termed ‘Planned relocation’ this phenomenon is gaining traction as a tool for disaster…
Virtual Workshop Series Developing a Research and Policy Agenda for Addressing Displacement and Migration in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Africa April-June 2021 Natural hazards, disasters and climate change are among the leading drivers of human mobility…
What are the implications of COVID-19, as a particular kind of a natural (biological) hazard, and its impact and implications for global trends and debates addressed in previous sessions? Environmental processes shape human mobility, including processes of displacement, migration and…
Virtual Conference - 4 February 2021 Five years after Sendai, Paris and the endorsement of the Protection Agenda - what has been achieved, what has been overlooked, and what needs to be done to prepare for and protect against displacement…
UN Press Release 11 February 2021 Suva/Geneva - Climate change is not a “doomsday proposition” but a living existential threat to humanity, Pacific government officials have warned. The stark warning was made at today’s Pacific Regional Consultation on Internal Displacement,…
Geneva, Switzerland, 4 February 2021 - The Government of Fiji chaired the first Steering Group meeting since assuming Chairmanship of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) on 1 January 2021. Deputy Permanent Representative of Fiji’s Permanent Mission to the UN…
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