Countdown to 2030: Achieving global targets on disaster displacement

This report is intended to provide an entry point for governments and their partners to better understand how to mitigate and address disaster displacement through informed policies and action. By shedding light on the main triggers, drivers and impacts of the phenomenon, it provides much-needed evidence to help to mainstream it as part of disaster risk reduction and achieve the Sendai framework's targets.

The report conlcudes that:

• Ten years after the adoption of the Sendai framework, our collective understanding of disaster displacement and recognition of the links between it and DRR have improved significantly.
• New modelling also shows that many countries are likely to face high levels of disaster displacement in the future, and climate change is expected to increase the risk for most.
• It is clear that humanitarian responses alone do not resolve disaster displacement.
• There are promising initiatives in many parts of the world. They show that evidence-based action, coupled with strong political will, institutional capacity and enough financial resources, reduce the risk and impacts of displacement
• Most people who flee disasters stay within their own borders and responsibility for their plight lies with their governments, but national public funding is rarely enough to address an issue of such scale and severity.