Action Agenda
Action Agenda on Internal Displacement
Building on the 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.
Action Agenda on Internal Displacement
Transforming the way we address internal displacement.
2024 Factsheet: Second Anniversary of the Action Agenda and
Joint Statement
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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.
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.