collage of displaced people of all ages and gender and race
Left: Women and children flee violence (DRC, North Kivu). Center: Ali, 6 years old, stands in the rubble of what used to be his home (Sana'a, Yemen). Right: 101 civilians are successfully evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol and other areas in a safe passage operation coordinated by the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC (Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine). left: ©OCHA/Giles Clarke/ Getty Images Reportage. Center: ©OCHA/ Charlotte Cans. Right: ©UNOCHA/Kateryna Klochko.

Action Agenda

Action Agenda on Internal Displacement

Building on the report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement, the Secretary-General’s Action Agenda on Internal Displacement has outlined 31 commitments by the UN system to better resolve, prevent, and address internal displacement crises.

 

Recognizing the primary duty of States to respond to the needs of their displaced citizens and residents, the Action Agenda also includes calls to national and local authorities, as well as to International Financial Institutions (IFIs), the private sector, and other actors.

The Action Agenda sets out clear commitments for the United Nations system.

I urge Member States, civil society and International Financial Institutions to do their part to help drive change. Together, we can ease human suffering and deliver a better future for internally displaced persons around the world."

- UN Secretary-General António Guterres

Leave No One Behind

With record numbers of people living in internal displacement, the UN system and its partners must make fundamental changes to our ways of working if real progress is to be achieved.

 

The world committed to Leave No One Behind in achieving the SDGs, but we cannot deliver on this promise if millions of people remain uprooted from their homes with no end to their displacement in sight.

 

Concretely, this requires going beyond a humanitarian approach and making action on internal displacement also a priority for development, peace, and climate change actors.

A young girl stands by her tent
 

Action Agenda on Internal Displacement

Transforming the way we address internal displacement.

2024 Factsheet: Second Anniversary of the Action Agenda and Joint Statement
Read the Action Agenda

 

Photo on the cover is of a young girl standing by her tent in the Warga Dalal camp in Zakho, northern Iraq (June 2022). ©OCHA/Iason Athanasiadi

Follow-up on the Action Agenda

The Office of the Special Adviser is leading the UN follow-up on the Action Agenda, working in close partnership with the interagency Steering Group. The Special Adviser also engages closely with Member States, other UN Agencies and Entities, Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs), International Financial Institutions (IFIs), and the private sector in this follow-up.

A focus on solutions — 15 countries

Together with UNRCs/UNCTs and the Steering Group on Solutions to Internal Displacement, the Special Adviser has identified 15 countries where solutions pathways will be developed over the coming 2 years, targetting up to 10 million IDPs.

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Fifteen countries have been identified where solutions pathways will be developed targeting up to 10 million IDPs.

Pilot countries are: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Ethiopia, Iraq, Libya, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Vanuatu, Yemen

*The boundaries and names shown, and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations.