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Foundational Documents
Over 70 million people are currently displaced within their own countries due to conflict, violence, disaster and climate change. The UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement released a report in 2021, calling for a development-focused approach to solutions and prevention. To support this, the Secretary-General launched the Action Agenda on Internal Displacement in 2022 and a new Facility to Strengthen UN and National Capacities on Solutions to Internal Displacement was established.
Facility to Strengthen UN and National Capacities on Solutions to Internal Displacement
A key recommendation (#6) of the Action Agenda on Internal Displacement is the need for:
"additional Support to UN Resident Coordinators through ensuring they can draw on advice and support from the global and regional levels and – where relevant – dedicated capacity at the country level”
In late 2022, a new Facility to Strengthen UN and National Capacities on Solutions to Internal Displacement was set up to deploy trained and experienced Solutions Advisers to Resident Coordinators (RCs). These Advisers bolster UN Resident Coordinator Offices (RCOs) and UN Country Teams (UNCTs) capacity to be able to support governments to deliver better and quicker on solutions, convene the UN system and coordinate with broader partners including regional durable solutions platform, donors and the private sector.
In addition to the new Solutions Advisers Facility there are a number of both UN and durable solutions platform staff that support solutions work in country either through secondments or direct arrangements with RCOs (notably supported by France, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) and through agency capacities offered by UN Agencies and durable solutions platforms for coordinated action.
Community of Practice - Solutions Adviser Facility
A Community of Practice (CoP) is envisaged to support primarily the work of Solutions Advisers regardless of deployment modalities with a second priority the wider network of UN and regional durable solutions platform staff supporting coordinated solutions work in both priority countries of the OSA and more broadly. The primary objective of the CoP is to create a vibrant and resourceful platform to exchange experiences, insights and best practices in providing solutions to internal displacement in 2024 and 2025 aligned to the current timeframe of secured funding for the Facility.
The CoP seeks to contribute to wider learning, exchange and knowledge management on solutions to internal displacement. However, it is based on interagency coordination and currently only on in-kind resources from all partners. Therefore, a three-tiered prioritized approach is currently envisaged, as depicted above.