From fragility to resilience through the lens of climate and mobility

This report outlines how climate change, conflict and fragility converge in the same regions, driving displacement and heightening disaster risk in countries least able to manage shocks. It synthesises evidence on how climate stress amplifies governance weaknesses, restricts mobility, and fuels cycles of violence and involuntary immobility. The report examines why these dynamics occur, how mobility can either exacerbate or reduce vulnerability, and where social protection, resource governance, political inclusion and climate‑responsive investment shape outcomes. 

The report highlights that resilience in fragile and displacement‑affected contexts depends on long‑term, preventive action rather than short‑term crisis response. It recommends scaling up adaptive social protection, strengthening inclusive natural resource governance, expanding safe and regular mobility pathways, and integrating conflict sensitivity into climate and infrastructure investments. The report also stresses the need to rebalance financing toward development and climate‑responsive interventions, leverage private‑sector engagement, and use climate and green‑transition investments to create jobs, reduce environmental pressures and support sustainable mobility choices.