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How To Quantify And Measure Loss And Damage Associated With Displacement?

By the Loss and Damage and the Challenges of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group and the Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility
16 / 05 / 2024
Lake Natron, Tanzania - October 04, 2013: A Maasai man stands at Lake Natron in Tanzania. He looks towards the salt lake on the horizon where a herd of giraffes are running across the lake. Credit: cinoby / iStock

This document is the outcome of discussion convened jointly by the Loss And Damage and The Challenges of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group and the Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility which was followed by a consultative process with group members that built on the inputs of the panellists. 

Speakers on the technical panel included:

1. Christelle Cazabat, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre;

2. Douwe van Schie, United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security;

3. Jasper Linke, IMPACT Initiatives; and;

4. Kristina Uzelac, International Organization for Migration.

The questions address by the panel —which were subsequently used to structure this document— considered the following:

A. Methodological issues with the quantification of economic and non-economic loss and damage associated with displacement;

B. Initiatives to quantify and measure economic and non-economic losses and damages associated with displacement;

C. Key dimensions that need to be assessed when considering economic and non-economic loss and damage associated with displacement;

D. Knowledge gaps and possible ways forward; and;  

E. Options to make relevant data collection and analysis efforts more comprehensive, systematic and comparable across countries.

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