Nansen Initiative Process and Future plans
New York
The session will be streamed in Geneva (16:00 - 17:00 Geneva Time), in room S1 in the Palais des Nations.
The Nansen Initiative is a state-led, bottom-up consultative process intended to build consensus on the development of a protection agenda addressing the needs of people displaced across international borders in the context of drought, flooding and other natural hazards, including those linked to the effects of climate change. To build consensus on a potential protection agenda, the Nansen Initiative plans to undertake five Regional Consultations in the Pacific, Central America, the Greater Horn of Africa, South-East Asia, and South Asia over the course of 2013 and 2014. Workshops with civil society representatives are also planned at the regional level. The results of these Regional Consultations will be consolidated and discussed at a global inter-governmental consultation in 2015. For more information about the Nansen Initiative, including reports and background documents from the first two Regional Consultations in the Pacific and Central America, please visit: www.nanseninitiative.org
Prof. Walter Kaelin (former Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons) will provide an update on the Nansen Initiative process to date and discuss plans for the future.