Achieving Lasting Solutions on Internal Displacement Through Community-Based Planning
Channel: IOM - UN Migration
Date: 2021-12-07

By the end of 2020, 55 million people were living in internal displacement, a number that has been steadily climbing over the past decade. The UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel recently published a report examining the world’s internal displacement crisis.

One of the solutions outlined in the report includes the imperative of Durable Solutions. The findings stressed the need to move beyond the current humanitarian model that is designed for the provision of life-saving assistance towards a more solutions-oriented approach.

Recommendations to resolving internal displacement like these are not only welcomed by the humanitarian community but in some cases are already in use. IOM has recently been developing an inclusive and participatory approach that can be applied to a wide range of crises including internal displacement which is called Community-Based Planning.

The approach places community members, including those who are internally displaced at the centre of the process.