Funding futures: Access to funding for planned relocation as loss and damage

This report provides insights regarding available evidence of the funding of planned relocation processes in the context of disasters and climate change. The research looked at the 34 planned relocation cases already analyzed in-depth in the Leaving Place, Restoring Home (LPRH) database commissioned by the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney (2021).

The report provides key recommendations for stakeholders involved in funding opportunities and planned relocation projects, based on the following themes:

• Quantifying financial needs linked with planned relocation;
• Different sources of funding;
• Local ownership of planned relocation processes;
• Full community participation in the use of funds;
• Challenges in accessing funding and communities' reliance on their own resources;
• Funding allocation priorities and gaps;
• Relocation funding as loss and damage finance.
• Knowledge-sharing and transparency.