Briefing note: Human mobility in national adaptation plans

As NAPs serve as a means of identifying and addressing countries' adaptation needs and developing national strategies and programmes, the integration of human mobility into all their key steps and elements is crucial to ensure that climate-related mobility can be addressed, managed, prevented, or facilitated as part of a holistic policy framework that connects the local, national, and global level and includes data collection, implementation, localization, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting.

In conclusion, as habitability and livelihoods become more fragile and uncertain in many areas across the world, mobility increasingly becomes a central factor in decision-making processes for households, communities, municipal administrations, local authorities, and national policymakers. In the context of human mobility, this means that NAPs can unlock synergies in several ways:

• Accessing funding to better address climate-related human mobility.
• Providing a platform to connect climate change adaptation and human mobility with relevant sectoral processes, such as those on migration, disaster displacement, disaster risk reduction, health, or education.
• Mainstreaming cross-cutting considerations, such as those related to gender, age, poverty, or disability.