ABOUT
Displacement Policy examines how responsibility for displaced populations is organised across institutions, public systems and financing arrangements — and why protection and solutions often become fragmented as people move across legal categories, territories and systems.
Its research connects displacement with public policy, institutional design, political economy and finance to explore how responsibility can be sustained more effectively over time.
RESEARCH AGENDA
The research agenda examines how responsibility for displaced populations is assigned, financed and sustained — and where institutional continuity breaks down across public systems, jurisdictions and time.
Three core concepts examine where responsibility breaks down, what institutional continuity requires and why reform is possible or constrained.
Explore the framework →Research spans public systems and social protection; public finance; development and infrastructure; climate, disasters and mobility; and legal status, territory and multilevel governance.
View the research areas →Policy briefs, working papers, Perspectives, regional governance mapping and collaborative research build a cumulative body of evidence and analysis.
See how the agenda advances →Comparative Evidence
A structured evidence base examining how responsibility for displacement is assigned across laws, institutions, public systems, safeguards, and financing arrangements.
Current regional focus: Southeast Asia.
Explore the Governance Mapping →Perspectives
Founding Executive Director, CoAction Global
Protracted displacement cannot be financed as a recurring emergency. A new model would tie long-term finance to inclusion reforms and give refugees direct capital.
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Former UN Assistant Secretary-General
Sustainable protection in displacement contexts must be anchored in national systems, local ownership, and the rule of law.
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Global Director, Violence Prevention & Response, IRC
Humanitarian protection and social work have always been more closely connected than the sector often admits.
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Policy Brief No. 4
Sovereign finance and the recurrent fiscal obligation problem.
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Policy Brief No. 3
Horizontal integration as the next frontier of adaptive social protection.
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Policy Brief No. 2
Development-induced displacement and the limits of project-based safeguards.
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