United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

Why in News?

• Recently, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report “Turning the tide on internal displacement: A development approach to solutions”, for the first time ever, more than 100 million people were forcibly displaced in 2022, most of them within their own countries.

Highlights

• At the end of 2021, there were over 59 million people forcibly displaced within their own countries due to conflict, violence, disasters and climate change.
• Before the war in Ukraine, 6.5 million people are estimated to have been internally displaced.
• By 2050, climate change may force more than an estimated 216 million people to move within their own countries.
• Disaster-related internal displacement is even more widespread, with new displacements recorded in over 130 countries and territories in 2021.
• Around 30% of professional lives became unemployed and 24% were not able to earn money the same way as before. 48% of the internally displaced households earned less money than before displacement.
• The Internally displaced persons struggle to cover their basic needs, find decent work or have a stable source of income. Female and youth-headed households are more impacted.
• Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa and parts of the Americas are the mostly affected regions from forced displacement.
• The direct Impact of internal displacement globally is estimated at over USD 21.5 billion in 2021 in the form of the financial cost of providing every internally displaced person with housing, education, health and security, and accounts.
• Lack of Proper and Commonly Accepted Statistics about displacement has led to a lack of policies for displaced people
• Longer-term development action is needed to reverse record levels of internal displacement, with millions more people predicted to be uprooted by climate change.
• Humanitarian aid alone cannot overcome record levels of internal displacement globally. There is a need to devise new ways to address the consequences of internal displacement through a development approach.