Human mobility, including migration, displacement and planned relocation

Strategic workstream (d) of the current five-year workplan of the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) Executive Committee (ExCom) focuses on enhancing cooperation and facilitation in relation to human mobility, including migration, displacement and planned relocation.

The Task Force on Displacement (TFD) helps execute the work of the WIM ExCom in guiding the implementation of the Warsaw International Mechanism in an advisory role.

The Task Force on Displacement (TFD) was established in 2015 at COP 21, to develop recommendations for integrated approaches to avert, minimize and address displacement related to the adverse impacts of climate change (Decision 1/CP.21) with its mandate later extended at the recommendation by the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM ExCom) in 2018.

The current work of the TFD focuses more broadly to support strategic workstream (d) of the current five-year rolling workplan of the ExCom, which aims to enhance cooperation and facilitation in relation to human mobility, including migration, displacement and planned relocation.

Approach

Through an inclusive approach, the Task Force on Displacement complements, draws upon the work of, and involves, as appropriate, existing bodies and expert groups under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, as well as relevant organizations and expert bodies outside the Convention.

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Phase 1 (June 2017 – April 2019)

In fulfilling its mandate during the first phase of implementation to provide a comprehensive assessment of broader issues of displacement related to climate change, the Task Force on Displacement engaged in technical work on the following themes:

Policy/Practice – National/Subnational
Policy – International/Regional
Data and assessment
Framing and linkages

As a result, the COP, at its 24^th session, adopted a set of recommendations on integrated approaches to averting, minimizing and addressing displacement related to the adverse impacts of climate change, presented by the WIM ExCom in its annual report (2018).

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For more information related to results of the implementation of the first phase workplan, click here.

Phase 2 (April 2019 – September 2022)

Since April 2019, the Task Force on Displacement began its second phase of implementation with the new terms of reference. The Task Force on Displacement’s Second Plan of Action (2019 – 2021), builds upon the activities under strategic workstream (d) of the WIM ExCom as well as the recommendations arising from the outcomes of its first phase of implementation. This Plan of Action was subsequently approved by the WIM ExCom in October 2019. For more information related to the implementation of the second phase Plan of Action, click here.

Phase 3 (2022 – 2024)

In its third phase the work of the TFD focuses more broadly on strategic workstream (d) of the current five-year rolling workplan of the ExCom, which aims to enhance cooperation and facilitation in relation to human mobility, including migration, displacement and planned relocation.

The TFD implements its third Plan of Action adopted in September 2022.

Technical guide on integrating human mobility and climate change linkages into relevant national climate change planning processes provides stakeholders with operational information and tools.

It also serves as a supplement to the UNFCCC’s National Adaptation Plans: Technical Guidelines produced by the Least Developed Countries Expert Group. Designed as a step-by-step resource, the guide outlines key steps for mainstreaming human mobility into NAPs and can be adapted and applied to specific contexts and institutional needs.

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