THREE-pronged Approach

Building enabling environment

• Community driven planning & protection: Community-based planning enables inclusive participation from all community members, including marginalized groups, women, and youths, giving them a voice in decision-making. Through consultations, community action plans are developed, which will then endorsed by local authorities and integrated into district development plans. This inclusive process fosters ownership, understanding diverse perspectives, and delivers effective and sustainable solutions to address specific community needs.
• Government capacity strengthening: Capacity injections, material, and technical assistance are tailored to specific context, while aligning with an overarching government engagement strategy for long-term sustainability at the institutional level. To further strengthen collaboration and strategic planning, existing government-led mechanisms such as the Durable Solutions Technical Working Group and Resilient Cities Initiative will be reinforced, and new mechanisms will be established based on the requests of local authorities in additional locations.
• Displacement sensitive urban strategy: Investing in urban planning is crucial as it enables us to design activities that considers the complexity within a broader scope and regional migration dynamics. Given the increasing complexity of humanitarian crises and the intensifying climate crisis, effective management of urban growth patterns is critical. By adopting comprehensive cross-sectoral approaches that combine emergency response and city development perspectives, we can support programming and implementation in cities dealing with displacement and potential return. Urban plans and strategies enable incremental implementation of sustainable projects, ensuring efficient investment allocation through a sequencing/phasing approach.

Housing and tenure security support

Forced evictions, land tenure insecurity, disputes, inadequate housing, and rights violations pose significant challenges to sustainable solutions. Forced evictions not only lead to secondary displacement, endanger the lives of IDPs, and expose them to exploitation, but also represent a significant protection concern. Limited knowledge of housing, land, and property (HLP) rights also perpetuates discrimination against women and marginalized communities. Additionally, evictions jeopardize infrastructural investments by humanitarian and development agencies. These challenges necessitate integrated efforts, leveraging resources, and utilizing progressive policy and practice knowledge. Our programming focuses on sustainable land and housing solutions by combining land tenure, housing, basic service delivery, and livelihoods investments. This approach aims to address location specific HLP issues, including tenure security, land disputes, forced evictions, inadequate housing, and related rights violations.

Urban basic services and sustainable livelihoods opportunities

Urban basic services and sustainable livelihoods encompass WASH, shelter, health provisions, and initiatives promoting income generation. Clean water, sanitation, hygiene, and education ensure basic needs of beneficiaries are met. Livelihoods interventions are layered to ensure that self-help groups, vocational training, and grants enhance skills and create income opportunities. Financial inclusion enables access to savings, credit, and insurance, fostering economic empowerment.