Session 3.2

Displaced communities—including refugees—are often exceptionally exposed to climate change, as are their host communities, making their inclusion in climate action, such as national adaptation planning and strategies, essential for the safety and well-being of host communities and refugees alike. Yet inclusion cannot be meaningful without sustained engagement and capacity-building over time. Drawing on several years of work with Uganda’s refugee communities, government, UN agencies, and funders, this session shares insights and best practices on refugee inclusion in Uganda's National Adaptation Plan (NAP), for other countries to do the same. By including refugees and host communities in climate adaptation planning, government and local communities can prepare for current and future climate hazards, promote strategies that mutually benefit refugees and host communities, and attract and allocate funding and other resources to where they are most needed. These strategies and resources must then be implemented at the local level in hosting communities, as well as shared to the other countries via multilateral spaces, such as the UNFCCC's Santiago Network and Task Force on Displacement, and the NAP Global Network.