Source: UNISDR Disaster Risk Reduction
Venue
Online participation via Zoom
This session aims to explore sustainable strategies for livelihood restoration and resilience-building in disaster-displaced populations and their host communities. It will provide a platform to share good practices, highlight innovative interventions, and foster collaboration among policymakers, private sector, practitioners, and stakeholders. The goal is to ensure that recovery efforts proactively and systematically include and empower displaced populations and their host communities, laying the foundation for a more resilient and inclusive future. While the session will include good practices from a range of different geographical and socioeconomic contexts, rural to urban displacement will be given particular attention, given that many people displaced by weather-induced disasters such as floods and drought are seeking shelter in towns and cities, rather than remaining in rural areas.
This webinar is co-organized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
Background
Disaster-induced displacement is a growing global crisis, with millions displaced every year due to floods, storms, droughts, earthquakes, and wildfires. In 2023 alone, 26.8 million disaster-related displacements were recorded across nearly 150 countries. This displacement disrupts not only the lives of the affected populations but also the social and economic systems of both displaced individuals and host communities. Displaced populations often face barriers to restoring their livelihoods, including loss of assets, limited access to employment, market challenges, social marginalization, and policy gaps.
The importance of restoring livelihoods for displaced populations is emphasized in key global frameworks, such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. These frameworks underscore the need for inclusive, sustainable, and context-specific solutions to ensure that no one is left behind in recovery efforts. However, effective livelihood restoration for displaced populations remains a complex challenge that requires integrated approaches across disaster risk reduction, climate action, and development sectors.
Objectives
This webinar will serve as a precursor to the technical session at the World Resilient Recovery Conference (WRRC), focusing on sharing research and good practices for strengthening livelihoods to enable solutions to disaster-induced displacement in support of resilient recovery. It aims to tackle the main difficulties, as well as major barriers, that countries and international organizations face in terms of timely designing and properly implementing livelihood restoration strategies. Real cases will help illustrate challenges and opportunities to inspire potential solutions.
The session will explore key challenges and data gaps related to livelihoods for disaster-displaced populations, focusing on rural-to-urban displacement, asset loss, market access, marginalization, and coordination gaps. It will identify good practices for livelihood restoration and resilience, outline potential strategies to address these challenges, and highlight areas for further discussion at the WRRC Technical Session. The session will also emphasize enhanced collaboration among governments, organizations, NGOs, the private sector, and communities for inclusive recovery solutions, while reinforcing the commitment to “Build Back Better” by improving resilience and addressing future disaster and climate shocks. This webinar will set the stage for meaningful discussions at the WRRC.
The session further aims to:
- Enable participants to gain a deeper understanding of the scale of rural to urban displacement: What do we know and not know? What are the data gaps, and which are the most affected regions/contexts? What concrete challenges do countries face in identifying and implementing solutions for restoring livelihoods in the context of disaster-induced displacement and resilient recovery, and in particular, in the context of rural to urban displacement?
- Highlight key challenges and lessons learned from past disasters and recovery processes.
- Set the stage for in-depth discussions on solutions at the WRRC technical session.
How to register:
Online (Zoom): https://undrr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G3cldxRNQe2qoNoDlz5dlw