Summary reports and activities from the TFD first phase of implementation:
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2020 Summary Report of the Task Force on Displacement |
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2018 Report of the Task Force on Displacement |
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Brochure of the Task Force on Displacement brochure |
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Activity I.1: Mapping Human Mobility and Climate Change in Relevant National Policies and Institutional Frameworks |
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Activity I.2: Synthesizing the State of Knowledge to Better Understand Displacement related to Slow Onset Events |
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Activity II.1: Mapping Workplans of Bodies/Work Programmes under the UNFCCC on Displacement |
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Activity II.2: Mapping Human Mobility (Migration, Displacement and Planned Relocation) and Climate Change in International Processes, Policies and Legal Frameworks |
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Activity II.3: United Nations System’s Mandates with respect to Averting, Minimizing and Addressing Displacement related to Climate Change: Considerations for the Future |
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Activity II.4: Mapping of Existing International/Regional Guidance/Tools on Averting, Minimizing and Addressing Displacement and Durable Solutions |
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Activity III.1-3: Systematic Data Collection and Monitoring of Displacement and Its Impacts at Local, National, Regional and International Level |
Details of the activities and expected results for both the first and the second phases of implementation are provided in the tables below.
Desired impacts |
Activity |
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I. Policy/Practice – National/Subnational |
• Policies and institutional framework to avert, minimize and address displacement enhanced.
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Activity I.1: Mapping of existing relevant policies and institutional frameworks that deal with the climate and displacement interaction at the national level, including identification of key actors in the policy formulation, to the extent feasible and on the base of accessible public documents. |
IOM (lead) + UNDP + Advisory Group CSOs + UNHCR |
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Activity I.2: Synthesizing the state of knowledge to better understand displacement related to slow onset events. |
Advisory Group CSOs (lead) + IOM + UNDP +UNHCR |
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II. Policy – International/Regional |
• Adverse impacts of climate change on displacement are recognized and integrated approaches to avert, minimize and address displacement are promoted in relevant policies at all levels, including international, regional, national and sub-national levels.
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Activity II.1: Mapping workplans of bodies/work programmes under the UNFCCC on displacement. |
Excom TFD members |
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Activity II.2: Mapping of how climate and displacement is included in National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), national communications, and in other relevant policy agendas (such as Sendai Framework, SDGs, World Humanitarian Summit, Global Forum on Migration and Development, Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees, etc.). |
IOM (lead) + ILO + UNDP |
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Activity II.3: Mapping of institutional frameworks and mandates within the United Nation system to avert, minimize and address displacement and outline options for facilitating coordination of key processes. |
PDD (lead) + ILO |
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Activity II.4: Mapping of existing international/regional guidance/tools on averting, minimizing and addressing displacement and durable solutions. |
UNHCR (lead) + IOM + Advisory Group CSOs + PDD |
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III. Data and assessment |
• Systematic data collection and monitoring of displacement and its impacts at local, national, regional and international level to inform comprehensive needs and risk assessments for the formulation of policy and plans, is strengthened.
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Activity III.1: Providing an overview of data sources, common methodologies and good practice for displacement-related data collection and assessment, as relevant to different contexts and region. |
Advisory Group CSOs (lead) + IOM |
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Activity III.2: Providing global baseline of climate-related disaster displacement risk, and package by region. |
Advisory Group CSOs (lead) + IDMC |
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Activity III.3: Analyzing available data on disaster-related displacement and its impacts in different regions and groups of countries in specific circumstances (e.g. LDCs) related to sudden and slow onset events. |
Advisory Group CSOs (lead) + IOM |
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IV. Framing and linkages |
• Stimulate and awaken commitment, cooperation and action to avert, minimize and address displacement in the context of climate change.
• Framing is actionable, constructive and leads to transformation. • Provide tools so we plan for today and for the future we want. |
Activity IV.1: Preparing summaries of results/outputs of activities:
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By implementer(s) of each activity |
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Activity IV.2: Convening, as appropriate, a meeting on all areas of work of the Task Force on Displacement which includes: 1) wider consultations with stakeholders, and 2) internal Task Force meeting. |
IOM (co-lead), PDD (co-lead) + UNHCR |
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Activity IV.3: Organizing the second meeting of the Task Force on Displacement to finalize the set of recommendations to be forwarded to the Executive Committee. |
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Expected results |
Activity |
Lead/co-leads |
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Increased visibility and awareness of displacement in the context of climate change and of the outputs of the TFD in its first phase |
1. Make available a user-friendly version of the summary documents from the mapping exercises of the TFD in its first phase |
Executive Committee TFD members |
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Enhanced understanding of the scale of displacement in the context of climate change |
2. Prepare TFD factsheets providing an annual overview of global disaster displacement: gender disaggregated data, analysis by region, livelihood and income group, and hazard context |
Advisory Group Civil Society Organisations (IDMC)/PDD |
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Enhanced understanding of the relationship between the impacts of climate change and conflicts on displacement |
3. Prepare a user-friendly knowledge product on nexus situations (climate change/disaster and conflict/violence) |
UNHCR |
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Enhanced evidence base for policy options for averting, minimizing and addressing displacement in the context of slow onset disaster and climate change |
4. Prepare a user-friendly knowledge product on displacement related to climate change in the context of slow onset events |
IDMC |
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Enhanced understanding of and knowledge on approaches to averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage in relation to disaster displacement |
5. Prepare a technical briefing on approaches to averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage in relation to disaster displacement |
PDD |
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Enhanced understanding of Parties of how to integrate climate-related mobility into relevant project/programme design, including for green economy Enhanced understanding of Parties and donors/the GCF of accessing support for climate change programmes with a focus on averting, minimizing and addressing displacement |
6. Compile selected good practice case studies and lessons learned from relevant projects/programmes that have integrated climate-related mobility for the purpose of improving the design of project proposals and access to funding |
IFRC/ILO/IOM/UNHCR |
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Enhanced support for formulating laws, policies and strategies that reflect efforts to avert, minimize and address displacement |
7. Raise awareness on integrating displacement in the context of climate change into national laws, policies and strategies, including on disaster response, building on mappings and lessons learned |
IFRC/ILO/IOM/UNHCR |
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Keeping the issue of climate change and displacement high on the agenda of relevant processes
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8. Continue to raise awareness of the work of the TFD in relevant processes |
IOM/others Executive Committee champions |
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Enhanced understanding of the scale of the cost/economic impact of displacement in the context of climate change |
9. Facilitate the assessment of economic impacts of displacement in the context of climate change at the national level |
Youth non-governmental organizations/Advisory Group Civil Society Organisations (IDMC) |
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Increased knowledge, skills and understanding of key issues and responses around labour migration and climate resilience |
10. Conduct a seminar on labour migration and climate resilience |
ILO/International Training Centre of ILO in Turin/universities in the region |
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Displacement considered under all relevant workstreams, as appropriate |
11. Exchange and share information on human mobility, including migration, displacement and planned relocation, among the expert groups of the Executive Committee |
Executive Committee champions |
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Enhanced capacity of countries to consider migration, environment and climate change in their long-term planning |
12. Provide capacity-building opportunities using relevant training materials on migration, environment and climate change |
ILO/IOM/PDD |
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Enhanced capacity for data collection, risk assessment and analysis in relation to displacement |
13. Assist Parties in assessing the risk of displacement, including through technical support and sharing tools and practices |
Advisory Group Civil Society Organisations (IDMC)/IOM/PDD |
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Countries supported in implementing integrated approaches |
14. Support Parties in integrating displacement risk into DRR strategies and combining action on DRR and climate change |
IOM/Norwegian Refugee Council/PDD |
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Support Parties in strengthening their understanding of preparedness for displacement related to the adverse impacts of climate change, including early warning systems, contingency planning, evacuation planning and resilience-building strategies and plans, and support them in developing innovative approaches to preparedness, for example forecast-based financing |
15. Support Parties in strengthening their understanding of preparedness for displacement related to the adverse impacts of climate change, including early warning systems, contingency planning, evacuation planning and resilience-building strategies and plans, and support them in developing innovative approaches to preparedness, for example forecast-based financing |
IFRC/PDD/UNHCR |
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Countries supported in integrating human mobility into relevant national planning processes, including the process to formulate and implement NAPs, as appropriate |
16. Help to make available supplementary guidelines on integrating human mobility into relevant national planning processes, including the process to formulate and implement NAPs, as appropriate |
IOM/ ILO /Executive Committee champions |
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Consideration of human mobility challenges in relevant national planning processes, including the process to formulate and implement NAPs |
17. Collaborate with the Least Developed Countries Expert Group and the Adaptation Committee to raise awareness of the importance of integrating consideration of human mobility in the context of climate change |
Executive Committee champions/IOM |
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Consideration of displacement related to the adverse effects of climate change included in the work of the high-level panel |
18. Support the inclusion of the challenges of displacement related to the adverse effects of climate change in the work of the high-level panel on internal displacement |
PDD/others |
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Increased awareness among youth on displacement in the context of climate change, and youth voices brought into considerations under the WIM/Convention |
19. Organize (a) training/awareness building workshop(s) for youth on displacement in the context of climate change |
Youth non-governmental organizations |
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Better understanding of how to access finance, including through the GCF Enhanced access to finance for averting, minimizing and addressing displacement associated with climate change |
20. Identify opportunities for accessing existing funding and develop guidance on preparing project proposals on averting, minimizing and addressing displacement related to climate change for the GCF, other funds and donors |
Executive Committee champions/ILO/IOM IOM (development of guidance) |
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Enhanced understanding among the Executive Committee and its subgroups of innovative approaches |
21. Invite experts to provide technical briefings on innovative approaches to the Executive Committee and its subgroups |
Executive Committee champions |
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Enhanced stakeholder engagement |
22. Continue engaging with relevant stakeholders |
TFD IOM/PDD (contingent on funding)/relevant partners |