The world's leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement

• Displacement is one of the most significant forms of loss and damage, but it is underreported and overlooked in loss and damage assessments.

• It is necessary to account for displacement and its impacts in comprehensive loss and damage assessments to create better policies and responses for displaced people and to unlock adequate resources from climate finance.

• Action and support to avert, minimise and address loss and damage must be informed by data on displacement. Existing tools and methodologies are available to support countries in their efforts.  

• At COP29, displacement must be a priority in decisions related to efforts to avert, minimise and address loss and damage.

Seven years into the conflict in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’s northernmost province, internally displaced people, host communities and those who have returned home continue to struggle due to limited access to healthcare, livelihoods, and education.

Multilateral development banks and governments have clear options for preventing, addressing and resolving displacement linked with disasters and climate change

GENEVA and MANILA – Multilateral development banks (MDBs) have unique opportunities to use development finance to reduce the risk, impact and costs of disaster displacement, even as climate change intensifies weather events that trigger it, according to a new report published today by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

In the first half of this year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) experienced 2,741,000 internal displacements due to conflict and violence, the highest figure recorded for a six-month period since IDMC started its monitoring of the country in 2009. A new analysis of our data reveals that the conflict involving the March 23 non-state armed group caused more than 2 million, 73 per cent, of those displacements.

The trends that led to record levels of internally displaced people (IDPs) at the end of 2023 continued into the first half of 2024, in some cases, already setting new records. In this update, we highlight ten of the most notable situations from the first six months of the year.