In October , in light of the ever-increasing number of IDPs and upon recommendation by 57 Member States, the UN Secretary-General established the High-level Panel on Internal Displacement to identify concrete recommendations on how to better prevent, respond to and achieve durable solutions to protracted internal displacement. OCHA supported the work of the Panel throughout its entire process.
The report calls for stepped-up action on solutions anchored in the affirmation of IDPs as rights-holding citizens, the recognition of solutions as a development priority, and an effort to give greater visibility to internal displacement in government policies, UN strategies, development financing, private sector engagement, and the media. OCHA is actively supporting the Secretary-General, alongside its partners, to ensure follow-up to the Panel recommendations.
Governments, corporations and foundations: ocha. Toggle navigation. Frerotte Internal displacement is a complex issue to address, due in part to the following factors: It is often politically and logistically challenging to provide humanitarian assistance to IDPs. A majority of them do not live in camps, but are dispersed among local communities, making it difficult to identify IDP populations and their needs. IDPs may also be inaccessible to humanitarian organizations due to factors such as their fear of being identified by authorities, or their continuous movement from place to place.
Displacement has a particularly traumatic impact on children, often placing them in high-risk circumstances that put them in need of specific protection measures. Women and girls are particularly exposed to the risk of sexual violence while many internally displaced children lose access to education, and many are also or forced recruitment into armed groups. Context-specific factors can significantly affect the success of interventions for IDPs.
These include the capacity and willingness of national and local institutions to receive aid for IDPs or the accessibility of legal and protective institutions, and factors specific to the internally displaced population, such as the resources and social capital of the displaced, or the presence of pre-existing vulnerabilities. Addressing internal displacement Internal displacement is often a protracted situation — many people remain in limbo for years in IDP camps, urban slums, or other areas of refuge.
Durable solutions for IDPs can be achieved through: Settling elsewhere in the country; Integrating into the community where they are currently based; and Returning home. The role of the United Nations in addressing internal displacement A family stands in front of their tent in an IDP settlement in Khamir, some km north of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a.
Contact us. During a year marked by intense storms and persistent conflict, Long-running conflicts, such as those in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria and Afghanistan, also continued to force large numbers of people to flee. Intense cyclone seasons in the Americas, South Asia and East Asia and the Pacific, and extended rainy seasons across the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, uprooted millions of people.
Cyclone Amphan alone triggered around five million displacements across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Myanmar. The Atlantic hurricane season was the most active on record with 30 named storms, including hurricanes Iota and Eta which affected 12 Central American and Caribbean countries.
A convergence of conflict and disasters led many people to be displaced for a second or even third time, increasing and prolonging their vulnerability. The number of people living in internal displacement worldwide has been rising steadily for more than a decade. It reached a record high as of 31 December , when there were more than twice as many internally displaced people IDPs than refugees.
Forty-eight million people have fled conflict and violence, and seven million disasters, but given the incomplete data the latter is likely to be a significant underestimate. Drawn-out conflicts like those in Syria, Afghanistan and the DRC had also continued to force large numbers of people to flee.
Unlike disaster-driven displacement, which is usually short-lived as people return to rebuild damaged or destroyed homes once the storms have passed, conflict-fuelled displacement can last years. All but seven million of the 55 million people living in internal displacement at the end of last year had fled conflict, the report said. Published On 20 May More from News.
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