In the context of climate change, displacement is a rising global crisis which acutely affects Bangladesh due to its exposure to extreme events and slow onset processes like riverbank erosion (a particular concern in regions like Sirajganj). This report underscores…
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…
Over the month of April 2024, PDD supported Governmental stakeholders and GIZ in Fiji with the elaboration of a framework and set of tools to integrate understanding of Non-Economic Loss and Damage (NELD) in decision-making processes on planned relocation. The…
On March 21, the Loss and Damage Collaboration, the Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility and PDD jointly convened a thematic panel decision and Q&A session looking at "How to quantify and measure economic and non-economic losses and…
On March 13 and 14, in Puerto Barrios (Izabal, Guatemala) IOM Guatemala and PDD co-hosted a capacity building workshop for local authorities on 'Preparing for Disaster Displacement'. The two-day workshop brought together 20 representatives of local-level institutions working with Disaster…
IOM Guatemala and PDD just launched a new study on "Human mobility in the context of climate change: identification of information gaps". The study provides an overview of research available on migration and displacement in the context of climate change…
On February 5, the Loss and Damage Collaboration and PDD jointly convened the 9th call of the Loss and Damage and the Challenges of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group. The Group brings together experts working on Loss and Damage…
Together with IMPACT Initiatives, PDD looked at how displacement and disasters and climate impacts interact to produce non-economic loss and damage in fragile and conflict-affected situations. The product of this work is a brief which underscored a crucial data gap,…
Will you be attending the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) scheduled 30 November until 12 December 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates? Are you looking to learn more about how displacement and human mobility relating to disasters and…
Since August 2023, the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and the Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) have convened representatives of community-based organizations from across Kenya to listen to their stories and learn about their experiences…
