Human mobility

Solok’s deadly 2026 flash flood exposed long-standing governance failures after a government complex was built in a mapped lahar hazard zone. Experts call for relocation, early warning, watershed restoration and stronger land-use planning.

Amid recurring landslides, a growing number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are being forced to adapt to increasingly limited camp space. Refugee management authorities warn that expansions of Rohingya camps will accelerate destruction of forests.

This Sicilian community has endured for centuries. But climate change, drought, heat and wildfires are threatening farming livelihoods in Sicily’s Arbëreshë community, raising concerns over the potential loss of a 500-year-old cultural heritage.

This report assesses climate hazards in Uganda’s Kikuube District, finding increasing drought stress, localized flood risk and rising temperatures. It recommends early warning systems, climate-smart agriculture, water management and resilience planning.

The study examines how secondary cities and development cooperation can better respond to these challenges, It looks past visible outcomes such as informal settlements and flooding to the underlying practices, capacities and paradigms that produce them.

This assessment examines climate hazards in Kamwenge District, highlighting increasing drought, heat and localized flood risks and their implications for refugee and host communities.

This report analyzes climate hazards and future projections in Terego District, Uganda. It highlights rising heat stress, unpredictable rainfall, seasonal drought, and localized flooding affecting rural host communities and refugee settlements.

This report provides a comprehensive spatial analysis of historical climate trends and future projections for Obongi District, Uganda. It evaluates key climate hazards—specifically seasonal droughts and flood susceptibility.

This summary presents downscaled climate projections for Madi Okollo District under the SSP2-4.5 moderate emissions scenario, evaluating shift patterns between the historical baseline (1970–2000) and mid-century (2041–2060).

This assessment examines climate hazards in Isingiro District, highlighting increasing heat, seasonal drought and localized flooding and their impacts on refugee and host communities.

The report assesses climate hazards in Uganda's Lamwo District, analyzing historical trends and future projections for seasonal drought and localized flooding.

This assessment examines climate hazards in Kyegegwa District, focusing on drought, flooding, rainfall variability and rising temperatures, and their impacts on refugee and host communities.

This report evaluates the climate hazard vulnerability of Koboko District, Uganda, a region hosting over 31,000 formal and self-settled refugees near the borders of South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This report evaluates climate risks in Kiryandongo District, Uganda, where rising temperatures and erratic rainfall threaten over 165,000 refugees and local host communities.

This report evaluates climate hazards in Uganda's Kikuube District, where rising temperatures and unpredictable rainfall fuel severe seasonal droughts and localized flooding.

This climate hazard assessment highlights how rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, and recurring seasonal droughts and floods threaten livelihoods and food security for refugee and host communities in Uganda's Adjumani District.

This case study explores how climate-related mobility and flood risk intersect in Dakar, highlighting community-based disaster risk reduction, nature-based solutions, flood governance reforms and lessons for evidence-based planning.

This case study explores community-based responses to climate mobility in Moundou, Chad, highlighting water management committees, mediation training and women-led initiatives that strengthened social cohesion, conflict prevention and resilience.

This practitioner’s brief synthesises lessons from GIZ’s Global Programme on Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change and provides recommendations on governance, data, financing, rights-based approaches and cross-regional learning.

By analysing global subnational net migration data, this study shows that associations between climate extremes and migration vary by hazard type, timing, consecutive events, income level and pre-existing migration context.

Planned relocation in Fiji can profoundly affect communities’ identities, traditions and connections to land. The HMCCC Programme supported the development of Standard Operating Procedures and trainings for government officials to make

The ocean is rising faster now than at any point in recorded history. Rising sea levels have a significant impact on human rights, economic development, health, culture, the future of many countries and basic human dignity.

Climate-driven displacement is widely expected to push millions across international borders. Drawing on monthly bilateral flows for 127 developing-country origins, this column finds the reverse

This study shows that perceived false flood alarms can reduce evacuation behaviour, while positive emotional responses to false alarms may help maintain protective action during future warnings.

This study evaluates whether the spatial accessibility of these facilities aligns with the distribution of older residents in core and non-core areas of Pudong New Area, Shanghai Municipality.

The study shows new methodology to estimate human costs of internal displacement using a life-year approach. Developed for researchers and practitioners, it gives a framework to quantify impacts of displacement to inform policies and investment decisions.

The Island Innovation newsletter of 4 June 2026 referred to "the Falepili Mobility Visa, the world's first climate-linked migration pathway." The text of the 2023 Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty is clear that the visa offer is different.

Researchers developed a new approach integrating human mobility dynamics into flood emergency planning. Results show ~43% cities experience severe spatial mismatches between evacuation demand and shelter resources under a once-in-a-century flood scenario.

This region is no stranger to fire, analysis shows these wildfires are off the charts. A very hot summer primed many areas for fire. When they ignited, they spread ferociously. The area of land burned in France is 40% larger than the previous record year.

This policy brief presents a case study of Indigenous climate mobility governance, through which communities exercise authority to make decisions on how their land or other resources might or might not become available to support groups wanting to move

The impacts of climate change are escalating, compounded by urban expansion into fire-prone areas. Eight cutting-edge technologies have the potential to revolutionize wildfire risk reduction strategies.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

This study proposes a Wildfire Evacuation Resource Index (WERI) quantifies census-tract accessibility to emergency shelters, hospitals, lodging, gas stations, and EV charging stations within a three-step floating catchment area framework.

This research presents a conceptual disaster risk and resilience framework for modelling natural hazard-induced human mobility, centring on household objective well-being as the key determinant of voluntary, involuntary, and planned movement outcomes.

Depopulation in the state’s coastal communities has been significant since Hurricane Katrina, an extremely powerful and destructive storm that hit the state in August 2005. It was responsible for 1833 deaths and approximately $108 billion in damage.

This publication explores how climate mobility programmes can move beyond gender-responsive approaches towards more gender-transformative change.

Millions of Afghans forced back across the border are returning to a country where conflict, climate and hardship make rebuilding fragile from the start.

Some have migrated from the Valparaíso region, but others have organised to remain in the face of advancing forest fires

With climate change likely to accelerate extreme weather in Australia, planned or managed retreat – moving people and infrastructure away from these areas – will grow only more important.