Averting, Minimizing and Addressing Displacement in Bangladesh – Frameworks Analysis

Averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage related with displacement requires integrated approaches that cut across traditional domains, responsibilities and policy areas. The coherence of relevant institutional and operational frameworks is a precondition to better coordinating action by actors in different sectors, and ultimately implementing more effective responses in this cross-cutting area of work.

In order to promote this coherence, the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) have analyzed 8 of the most salient legal, institutional and operational frameworks in Bangladesh. Each analysis identifies ways in which their roll-out can contribute to the objectives of averting, minimizing and addressing displacement and its impacts – or can be supported by interventions focusing on displacement and displaced persons.

These analyses can support coherence, enhance implementation and policy reform processes. Together, they also make a strong case for the need to consider areas of mutual relevance across policy silos at national level, and in particular in developing countries in which the challenges of climate change and related displacement are urgent, unavoidable development issue.

The frameworks that have been analyzed include the following publications that you can access by clicking on the titles:

• Reflection on the National Strategy on Internal Displacement Management (2021) in the Ashrayan Guideline (2010-2022) of Bangladesh
• Making the Coastal Embankment Improvement Project Right-based in light of the National Strategy on Internal Displacement Management
• Revisiting of the Coastal Zone Policy in light of the National Strategy on Internal Displacement Management: Identifying Synergies and Gaps
• Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100: an Analysis from a Displacement Perspective
• Synergies and Gaps between the Bangladesh Disaster Management Act (2012) and the National Strategy on Internal Displacement Management (2021)
• The 1997 Agricultural Khas Land Management and Settlement policy: an analysis through a displacement lens
• The Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan 2022-2041: An Analysis from the point of view of displacement
• National Adaptation Plan 2023-2050: An Analysis from the Point of View of Displacement

Policy Brief from Bangladesh – The National Strategy on Internal Displacement Management and its Action Plan