War, disasters, and climate shocks are uprooting more people than ever. 

Most remain in their own countries or seek refuge in neighbouring states already under pressure. Forced displacement ends when both displaced people, host and return communities can restore their lives and shape what comes next. 

By investing in both, UNDP helps lay the foundations for lasting peace, social cohesion, and recovery.

Putting development at the heart of displacement response

UNDP works with governments, local communities and UN partners like UNHCR and IOM to make support smarter, faster, and more inclusive. That means easing pressure on schools and clinics, creating jobs that foster inclusion, rebuilding infrastructure, supporting women-led businesses, and expanding access to justice and social protection.

It also means supporting national and local governments to ensure that solutions to forced displacement are including in wider national and local development plans and supporting a whole of financing approach that bridges humanitarian funding with domestic, international, public and private resources.

As one of the UN’s Solutions Champion on Internal Displacement, UNDP helps governments lead, communities shape, and people rebuild. UNDP and UNHCR work together through their Global Collaboration Framework and the Humanitarian Development-Peace Nexus Pledge, promoting integrated, nationally owned solutions.