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How can investments support and harness the economic potential of forcibly displaced people? The refugee-lens investing movement offers a means to connect investors with businesses that support improvements in the lives of refugees.

Multilateral development banks can play an instrumental role in solutions to displacement linked with disasters, through investments in mitigation, climate adaptation and infrastructure to build communities’ long-term resilience.

People displaced due to climate impacts are owed financial reparations, but there is no one party responsible. An insurance model, whereby primary and ancillary contributors to climate change pay in to a fund, offers a way forward.

The Fund for responding to Loss and Damage presents an opportunity to increase the climate finance streams that support work on human mobility. Concerted efforts are needed to ensure that climate migrants are involved in decision-making.

Conversations on forced displacement in many cases still centre on the climate versus conflict dichotomy, but multiple factors often combine as triggers, requiring a more analytical approach to financing forced displacement response.

Examining how Brazil finances its response to Venezuelan displacement offers critical insights into the effectiveness of these mechanisms. It also raises important questions about migration, aid and human rights protection policies.

The lack of transparency in where and how humanitarian WASH funding is spent on Syrian refugees in Jordan impacts the potential to plan a more sustainable, cost-efficient response and raises questions for the sector.

The humanitarian sector is facing an unprecedented funding gap, and organisations are making hard choices in prioritising which populations to reach. This article outlines four principles for effective humanitarian boundary-setting.

Evidence from Colombia shows that results-based financing is an underused tool for forced displacement response; it can be used to overcome challenges around policy implementation and maximise programme impact and cost efficiency.

International sanctions placed on a conflict-affected State limit the ability of aid agencies to support civilians. In Syria, sanctions have had a profound impact on funding for humanitarian aid for forcibly displaced people.