🧵 Since 2016, we've been researching mobility, migration and displacement in the Horn of Africa. But what are our key findings on livelihoods and mobility in the Horn of Africa?

For policymakers + practitioners, we recommend: ✅ An approach that views mobility as adaptation to a problem, instead of a problem itself ✅ Policy and programming that considers cyclical processes of displacement, mobility and return

🧵 The REF project has spent the last seven years exploring mobility, migration and displacement in the Horn of Africa. But what are our key findings on conflict and mobility in the Horn of Africa? ⬇️

For policymakers + practitioners, we recommend: ✅ Ensure that the conditions exist for voluntary, safe, dignified, informed return and sustainable re-integration. ✅ Support a pace of returns that returnees – and the communities they might return to – can both support.

🧵 Over the past seven years, we've researched mobility, migration and displacement in the Horn of Africa. But what are our key findings on climate and mobility in the Horn of Africa?

For policymakers + practitioners, we recommend: ✅ An approach that views mobility as adaptation to a problem, instead of a problem itself ✅ Climate policy informed by social and physical sciences ✅ Policies that consider the lifestyle of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities