Migration and displacement have reached unprecedented levels. One in seven people on the planet is on the move. More than 258 million people live outside their country of origin. Many are economic (voluntary) migrants hoping to enhance their livelihoods and send money back home. However, there are over 70 million people, almost 1 per cent of humankind, who are forcibly displaced, including over 25 million refugees, approximately 3 million asylum seekers and 41 million internally displaced persons (IDPs). The majority of those displaced are women and girls.
  Eighty-four per cent of refugees are hosted in developing countries, many in areas already characterized by sub-optimal economic productivity and endemic poverty. As refugee flows surge and becomes protracted, the infrastructure and services of host countries are challenged to absorb the newcomers. As a result, people who are forcibly displaced face extreme conditions -lacking jobs, income and access to health care and social services beyond emergency humanitarian assistance.
   This report, "Promoting Development Approaches to Migration and Displacement: UNDP's Four  Specific Focus Areas", provides a snapshot of UNDP’s key areas of work as they relate to migration and displacement. It explores four specific focus areas that UNDP works on to promote development approaches to migration and displacement in supporting countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These focus areas are:Â
- Addressing the root causes of displacement and mitigating the negative drivers of migration and factors compelling people to leave their homes;
- Supporting governments to integrate migration and displacement issues in national and local development plans, including during the localization of SDGs, and strengthening positive impacts of migrants/diaspora;
- Supporting refugees, migrants, IDPs and host communities to cope, recover and sustain development gains in crisis and post-crisis situations (‘resilience-based development’) and;Â
- Supporting national and local authorities achieve sustainable community based re/integration.Â
   The report also describes how UNDP partners with key government departments, other agencies such as IOM, UNHCR, ILO, World Bank, civil society organizations, and the private sector in providing policy and programme support to countries on migration and displacement.
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