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The present desk review aims to inform policymakers and decision makers as well as practitioners from the local to the global level about the interplay between migration, displacement, planned relocation and disasters, climate change and environmental degradation in West Africa and the policy framework to address it. As such, the paper provides firstly an overview of human mobility in West Africa in the context of disasters, the adverse effects of climate change and environmental degradation. It then presents policy horizons, including relevant global, regional and sub-regional policies. Finally, the paper concludes with recommendations to address human mobility in the context of disasters, climate change and environmental degradation in West Africa.

This desk review is part of the IOM project “Implementing global policies on environmental migration and disaster displacement in West Africa.” IOM is implementing the project together with the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and with the generous support of the Government of the French Republic.