Approximately 75% of the world’s refugees and displaced people live in the most climate-vulnerable countries, enduring drought, flooding, and extreme temperatures. Yet to date, there has been far too little discussion of how the international humanitarian and development community can better take climate risks into account when designing and implementing self-reliance programming.
In 2024, the Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative (RSRI) conducted a pilot research project led by Dr. Evan Easton-Calabria to explore how self-reliance programming can better account for climate risks and hazards, such as understanding how an extreme weather event like a flood impacts refugee self-reliance in a given context.
The findings from this pilot research indicate that valuable and actionable work remains to be done. How can we better consider climate risks when designing and implementing self-reliance programming?
