This side event seeks to showcase how the evolving regional initiatives have contributed at minimizing the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their country of origin, while also facilitating safe, orderly and regular migration, in the context of disasters, climate change and environmental degradation in the IGAD region. As mobility patterns are reshaped in the context of climate change, shared experiences and mutual interests of States can incentivize decisive action at policy level. Such emerging initiatives must be complemented by existing fields of regional collaboration.