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Reducing, preparing for and responding to disaster displacement. Integrating disaster displacement and other related forms of human mobility into regional, national, sub-national and local DRR strategies.

Latest Human mobility additions in the Knowledge Base

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Documents and publications

This Power Presentation presents updates regarding the incorporation of displacement related issues into the Treaty for the Protection of Persons in the event of Disasters.

UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
2025-05-policy-brief-foregrounding-displacement-treaty.pdf thumbnail
Documents and publications

This policy brief examines the increasing challenge of disaster-related displacement and argues that the proposed Treaty on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters (PPED Treaty) should explicitly address the protection of displaced people.

UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
2026-03-summary-report-technical-briefing-on-treaty-protection-persons-event-disasters-displacement.pdf thumbnail
Documents and publications

This summary report presents the key insights from the technical briefing and a summary of the presentations and exchange among participants.

UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
Platform on Disaster Displacement
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
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Documents and publications

This two-pages resource brief provides concrete recommendations and entry points to incorporate displacement into the Treaty on the Protection of Persons in the event of Disasters.

UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
Towards a legally-binding convention on the protection of persons in the event of disasters thumbnail
Documents and publications

This guide introduces the ongoing process to develop a legally binding convention on the protection of persons in the event of disasters (PPED) and explains why feminist and gender-justice advocates need to be paying attention.

Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
Early warning systems for mobile populations: Operational guidance thumbnail
Documents and publications

This operational guidance provides direction for designing and implementing people-centred, inclusive multi-hazard early warning systems that effectively reach and protect mobile populations and other groups affected by changing locations or circumstances

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
The complex links between food security, migration, and fragility in Northern Central America thumbnail
Documents and publications

This report examines the interlinked dynamics of fragility, food insecurity, shocks, and migration in the Northern Central America (NCA) region, composed of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

World Bank, the
Planned relocation policies and practices: lessons from Fiji, Bangladesh, and Peru  thumbnail
Documents and publications

This brief examines key components of government-led planned relocation frameworks in Fiji, Bangladesh, and Peru, including their impacts on communities and lessons for policymakers developing and implementing similar plans.

Natural Resources Defense Council
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Planned relocation
Planned relocation
These resources analyse how well-planned relocations can help to increase resilience and reduce disaster risk.