No.

Name of organization

Activities

Types of losses

Regional focus

1

Academic Alliance for Anticipatory Action (4As)

4As is a global consortium of universities that is working to develop the evidence base on anticipatory action (AA) through the completion of impact evaluations of AA interventions and independent research related to AA planning and implementation.

Human mobility

Africa

2

Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research (CSPR), Linköping University

Together with The University of Fiji, CSPR contributes to the knowledge of how the lived experience and strife for ontological (including the combined physical and biographical) security in climate risk expose communities in Pacific Island States to vulnerabilities. In the co-creation processes, CSPR develops strategies for handling geopolitical and human security risks and for developing strategies for societal transformations towards enhanced resilience at the local, domestic and international levels. 

CSPR has also worked with capacity building, most recently in a pre-COP27 workshop in collaboration with the Fijian Ministry of iTaukei Affairs and Pacific Islands Development Forum on “Loss and Damage and the Climate Negotiations” in Suva, with representatives from exposed villages around Fiji, as well as representatives from agencies, industry, and non-governmental organizations.

Human mobility

Asia-Pacific

3

Centre for Research on Governance and Development (CPGD)

CPGD is conducting public opinion studies to better understand the effects of climate change.

Human mobility

Africa

4

Department of Political Science, University College London (UCL)

UCL is conducting research seeking to understand how policy makers conceive non-economic losses and damages in their jurisdictions.

Other: Human rights

Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean

5

International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Independent University Bangladesh

The ICCCAD is conducting on-the-ground research on non-economic loss and damage with a focus on gendered aspects of non-economic loss and damage: health, mobility, security, culture, and capacity building in the form of responses.

Human mobility, Health

Asia-Pacific

6

Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS)

LUCSUS has a long-standing expertise related to loss and damage and non-economic losses (particularly in Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, France including overseas territories, Sweden and the United States). For example:

Fundamental research on the conceptualization, measurement, and potential ways to address losses and damages, more on the science of the loss spectrum than the political debate.

Empirical studies on What are non-economic losses in tropical fishery (case study): how it is valued by communities, what are non-climatic drivers of non-economic losses, and structural influence of perceptions on non-economic losses.

Empirical research on loss and damage in Southeast Asia (Cambodia). The research is interdisciplinary and focuses on experiences of loss and damage emerging from climate change impacts in the contexts of agrarian change, specifically how extreme weather events interact with struggles around land and the implications for agrarian climate justice.

Biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Indigenous/local knowledge, Human mobility, Cultural heritage, Health, Life, etc.

All regions

7

Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria

OAU focuses on awareness-raising, outreach and support strategy.

Human mobility

Africa

8

The University of Queensland (UQ)

For several years, the work of the UQ has explored in-depth people’s perspectives and experiences of non-economic loss and damage (NELD) throughout Oceania. In doing so, UQ has built an extensive body of knowledge on what NELD is and how it manifests, as well as careful identification of how people can address and work through climate-induced NELD now and in the future.

Cultural heritage

Asia-Pacific

9

University College London (UCL)

UCL is working with governments of Small Island Developing States as well as relevant organizations in helping to build awareness and develop solutions to climate change-induced human mobility, including permanent displacement both internally and across borders.

Human mobility

Asia-Pacific, Latin America

10

University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB)

ULAB focuses on mental health, human mobility, and indigenous local knowledge.

Human mobility

Asia-Pacific

11

University of the West Indies Mona (UWI Mona)

UWI Mona conducts ethnobotany and ethnobiology research on local knowledge systems in Jamaica and the Caribbean island region. These Afrodescendant knowledge systems remain undervalued in academia and government, and under-recorded, in spite of their relevance for the well-being of individuals, communities, and the Caribbean island region, and their relationship to biodiversity and cultural heritage.

Indigenous/local knowledge

Latin America and the Caribbean

12

University of Washington (UW)

UW is conducting training and capacity-building sessions with health professionals; drafting technical guidance for development partners on the health risks of climate change; and providing technical support for implementation of health interventions to reduce loss and damage.

Health

Asia-Pacific

13

West African Centre For Sustainable Rural Transformation (WARC-SRT)

WARC-SRT conducts research on non-economic losses in mobility and biodiversity.

Human mobility

Africa

No.

Name of organization

Activities

Types of losses

Regional focus

1

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

IUCN carries out restoration of the coastal ecosystem, Indus Delta rehabilitations, biodiversity conservation and forestry.

Biodiversity

Asia-Pacific

2

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

SPREP is a Pacific regional dialogue to collect data/information on non-economic losses, building on the evidence base and elements of methodology to assess non-economic losses, etc.

Life, Human health, Human mobility, Territory, Cultural heritage, Indigenous/local knowledge, Biodiversity, Ecosystem services

Asia-Pacific

No.

Name of organization

Activities

Types of losses

Regional focus

1

Global Centre for Climate Mobility (GCCM)

GCCM seeks to anticipate, plan and enable climate mobility, advance people’s positive adaptation and prevent loss and damage. GCCM conducts research and modelling studies, and extensive consultations with African and international experts and practitioners to arrive at a shared analysis and recommendations for action for addressing climate-forced migration and displacement, and to form a Community of Practice dedicated to advancing solutions for harnessing climate mobility in the continent.

Human mobility

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean

2

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Office for Global Education and Training Institute (GETI)

UNDRR GETI provides training to local governments on using the Disaster scorecard for cities, Addendum on Health systems, so they can identify gaps in the health systems and develop a plan to address these gaps for greater resilience: https://mcr2030.undrr.org/public-health-system-resilience-scorecard

Health

All regions

3

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

UNHCR contributes to past and current work plans of the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) Task Force on Displacement.

Averting, minimizing and addressing non-economic losses are central to UNHCR's protection mandate for refugees and other displaced persons in relation to both its normative advisory and operational roles worldwide.

Human mobility (displacement)

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean

4

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

UNICEF works on losses related to critical child services, including education, health, social protection, and child protection. Biodiversity loss is also a recent area of interest to UNICEF.

UNICEF is striving to fill data gaps for child-specific impacts/losses, including at subnational levels. Additionally, UNICEF leads on several sectors (education, WASH, nutrition, child protection, shock-responsive social protection) in disaster risk reduction/climate change adaptation and in post-disaster recovery processes. Recovery processes, the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment in particular, have heavily leaned towards infrastructure, which represents a massive and immediate opportunity to incorporate non-economic losses into Government-led recovery processes.

Life, Health

Other: Education, Child protection, Nutritional outcomes, Water and sanitation, Anything for a child to survive and thrive, Children and young people, Access to all basic/social services

All regions

5

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

UNCDF supports access and deployment of climate finance for locally-led action, working through country systems with local governments and communities.

Other: Livelihoods

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean

6

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

UNDP provides technical assistance and conducts assessment of loss and damage.

Human mobility

Asia-Pacific

7

United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

UNU-EHS conducts analysis of non-economic loss and damage in IPCC Special Reports (analysis done, paper written, under review).

Other: Livelihood, Identity, Social cohesion

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean

8

World Food Programme (WFP)

WFP is a global organization working in 120 countries and territories. WFP works on multiple dimensions of non-economic losses including life, health, indigenous/local knowledge, biodiversity, and ecosystems.

Life

All regions

No.

Name of organization

Activities

Types of losses

Regional focus

1

Asociación La Ruta del Clima

Community Perspectives: Loss and damage in Cahuita, Costa Rica

Life Amid Loss and Damage: Central American Narratives

Beyond Humanitarian Aid: The Need for a Robust Loss and Damage Finance Facility

Creating a Comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Loss and Damage

Human mobility

Latin America and the Caribbean

2

Development Education and Advocacy Resources for Africa (DEAR Africa)

DEAR Africa is facilitating the establishment of Women and Girls Mental Health and Resilience counselling; conducting response activities for children with disabilities; and identifying and implementing disaster risk reduction for Sukur Cultural Heritage (UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nigeria).

Health, Indigenous/local knowledge, Cultural heritage

Africa

3

Greentransformation2050 (GT2050)

GT2050 is assisting communities affected by climate change-induced displacement.

GT2050 is benefiting from a grant from the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition (LDYC) funded by the Climate Justice Resilience Fund (CJRF) to implement a project entitled Increasing the resilience of communities due to unexpected internal climate migration in lower Guinea, through a relocation and resettlement of affected communities of Kabaki, Republic of Guinea (2022-2024).

The project outcome is the following:

Relevant stakeholders have enhanced their capacity on the concept of loss and damage associated with climate change and policy makers have committed to addressing the issue of loss and damage at a policy level.

Indigenous/local knowledge, Human mobility

Africa

4

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

IIED is conducting a more elaborate study on a value-based approach to non-economic losses and damages as can be found on the IIED website: https://www.iied.org/21161iied

Range of non-economic losses

Asia-Pacific

5

Practical Action (PA)

PA has undertaken national Loss and Damage assessments in Nepal and Bangladesh and has an assessment nearing completion in Peru. PA is hoping to expand these studies to Senegal and Zimbabwe in the coming year. Although these studies are comprehensive studies on loss and damage, the issue of accountability for non-economic losses is a key issue in all reports, especially with regard to the scale of losses, the national capacity to document and the resources available to respond. PA has developed some simple tools to help communities and local governments better understand non-economic losses and how to integrate these into local planning processes.

PA places a focus on Early Warning Systems and Nature-based solutions/Eco-disaster risk reduction.

Ecosystem services, Life, Indigenous/local knowledge

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean

6

Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF)

SCIAF is strengthening social protection services in the following areas of work: training on psychological first aid and child protection first aid with communities and support to community victim support units, child protection officers and case workers. SCIAF is also supporting the expression of losses and damages through the arts and theatre for development with communities and via Arts festivals. SCIAF is taking a participatory community-led approach to understanding and documenting lived experiences of non-economic loss and damage.

SCIAF’s work is funded by the Scottish Government and will be releasing some videos in the coming months.

Cultural heritage, Indigenous/local knowledge, Biodiversity, Ecosystem services

Other: Social protection systems and psychosocial support and theater for change/art activities

Africa

7

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP)

GRP has courses for least developed country negotiators and Least Developed University Consortium on Loss and Damage including Non-economic Losses; is working with communities to collect stories on non-economic losses; and is shaping policy on non-economic losses.

Life, Human health, Human mobility, Territory, Cultural heritage, Indigenous/local knowledge, Biodiversity, Ecosystem services

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean

No.

Name of organization

Activities

Types of losses

Regional focus

1

Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET)

AEMET provides support to health institutions, analyzing the impact of extreme environmental events in Health.

Ecosystem services

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean

2

Centre for Disaster Protection

The Centre focuses on applications and limitations of disaster risk finance and loss and damage, with focus particularly on non-economic loss and damage impacts on individuals (people) (e.g. protection gap facing poorest and the most climate vulnerable), including loss of life and livelihoods, displacement/mobility, health, etc.

Life

Africa

3

Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Ministry is working with vulnerable communities in the Sahel region. The Ministry is in dialogue with the government of Greenland regarding challenges related to the melting of glaciers.

Human mobility

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean

4

Environmental Protection Authority

The Environmental Protection Authority works on policy formulation and coordination of implementation at both federal and regional levels, including loss and damage issues.

Biodiversity

Africa

5

Ismail Mahomed Centre for Human and Peoples' Rights (IMCHPR)

IMCHPR works on the adverse consequences of climate change on human rights, which prominently features non-economic losses such as losses of, inter alia, life, health, displacement and human mobility, territory, cultural heritage, indigenous/local knowledge, biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Human mobility

Africa

6

Loss and Damage Youth Coalition (LDYC)

As Loss and Damage is a concept that challenges the future of our generation, the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition is engaged in collecting human lived experience to ensure that good practice is transferable especially in the marginalized communities to create tangible hope. LDYC organized a community visit in Fiji and worked with youth in the Caribbean to provide recommendations for COP 27 to be a success by reflecting on the non-economic losses being felt by the youth.

Indigenous/local knowledge

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean

7

Open Society Foundations

Open Society Foundations work on financial support and grants, advocacy, capacity building, and networking.

Human mobility, Health, Territory, Cultural heritage, Indigenous/local knowledge

Asia-Pacific

8

Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD)

PDD works on the following:

1) Research and data collection on displacement in the context of disasters and climate change 

2) Assessment of future occurrence and patterns of disaster displacement 

3) Support preparedness for disaster displacement 

4) Integration of human mobility considerations in development, adaptation and land-use planning 

5) Strengthened capacities for accessing climate finance   

Concrete examples of relevant activities include: Secondment of technical experts; Capacity building and training on topics relevant to disaster displacement and human mobility; Support to South-to-South technical exchanges; Support to policy development/developing tools and guidelines; Production of risk assessment and collection of data; and Set up and support of multi-stakeholder policy and operational coordination bodies.

Human mobility

Asia-Pacific

9

Scottish Government

The Scottish Government conducts research on the gendered impacts of climate change in Malawi and displacement and heritage loss in the Pacific islands on mental health. The Scottish Government carries out a programme to address health impacts post Tropical Storm Ana and Cyclone Gombe in Malawi.

The Scottish Government will shortly be programming a £5 million fund that will be disbursed on the basis of a needs assessment and will focus on non-economic loss and damage with a particular emphasis on gender-responsive action.

Human mobility, Cultural heritage, Health, Life

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean