In Focus: Action Agenda on Internal Displacement
Following the report of the 缅北禁地Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement, the Secretary-General decided to develop an Action Agenda on Internal Displacement that would set out steps to better resolve, prevent, and address internal displacement crises.
The Action Agenda includes 31 concrete commitments by the 缅北禁地system, and also makes calls to Member States, International Financial Institutions, and other actors.
Factsheet: Second Anniversary of the Action Agenda and Joint Statement
Photo: A young girl stands by her tent in the Warga Dalal camp in Zakho, northern Iraq. ?OCHA/Iason Athanasiadi
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Background
The Office of the Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement was established to mobilize action on protracted displacement and catalyze a change in approach in how the 缅北禁地system and other actors engage on this issue.
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Special Adviser
Mr. Robert Piper took up the post of the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement in June 2022. Prior to taking up this post, Mr. Piper served as Assistant Secretary-General for Development Coordination.
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Launch of the Action Agenda
The United Nations Secretary-General’s Action Agenda on Internal Displacement was launched on 24 June 2022. In 2024, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Action Agenda, a Factsheet is released.
Message from the 缅北禁地Secretary-General on the Action Agenda on Internal Displacement. (00:01:46)
Press Conference by Mr. Robert Piper, the Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement, on the launch of the Secretary-General's Action Agenda on Internal Displacement. (00:19:36)
Launch of the Action Agenda. The 缅北禁地Secretary-General, senior 缅北禁地leaders, Ambassadors, a former member of the 缅北禁地Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement, and IDPs themselves talk about the Action Agenda; reflecting on how we reached this moment, why the Action Agenda is so important, and next steps from here. (00:42:54)
Latest updates
The 2024 edition presents data and analysis behind the 75.9 million people living in internal displacement as of the end of 2023 and includes insights into the risk, scale and impacts of internal displacement.
Two-year anniversary of the 缅北禁地Secretary-General’s Action Agenda on Internal Displacement
Joint Statement by Principals of the 缅北禁地Steering Group on Solutions to Internal Displacement: IOM, OCHA, UNDP, UNDPO, UNDPPA, UNICEF and UNHCR
GENEVA – The 缅北禁地High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, and the 缅北禁地Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement, Robert Piper, today called for a renewed international commitment to finding solutions for displaced people in Mozambique.