Innovative Financing Solutions for Addressing Internal Displacement: Building on Current Thinking and Practice

This briefing reflects on the development of financing strategies to address internal displacement

Published on August 21, 2020

Ala Al-Mahaidi | idrp, Livelihoods, Development, Solutions

Innovative solutions are needed to finance the international community’s responses to internal displacement, as traditional approaches have shown to be inadequate. These challenges indicate an urgent need to rethink how responses to internal displacement are financed. This question is particularly important for the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) nexus. Financing can be used strategically as a “centre of gravity” to incentivise collaboration across the HDP nexus to achieve collective outcomes for IDPs. Current thinking on nexus financing, as well as practices in refugee assistance, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and peacebuilding, among other fields, suggest key opportunities for replicating existing financing models in internal displacement contexts and for leveraging current financing mechanisms to target IDPs.

This paper was presented to the UNSG High Level Panel on Internal Displacement Work-stream 4 (Innovative Financing).

Ala Al-Mahaidi is a Research Affiliate, Internal Displacement Research Programme.

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