Forced Displacement and the Humanitarian-Development Nexus: A Roundtable Anthology

Summary

Working Paper, June 2021 Following calls for a “New Way of Working” to achieve Agenda 2030 and commitments made at the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, policymakers have increasingly looked to the “nexus approach” to address protracted forced displacement crises. This approach can be defined as an aim to strengthen collaboration, coherence, and complementarity across humanitarian, development, and peace actions by focusing on collective outcomes and sustainable solutions. The 2018 Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), for example, emphasises the importance of nexusoriented refugee responses to ease pressures on host countries and enhance refugee self-reliance, particularly in cases of protracted displacement.