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In response to global and regional processes, authorities working primarily at local level in Nairobi (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda) and Freetown (Sierra Leone) collaborated with Lund University and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law to jointly examine human rights and gender equality dimensions of climate and disaster-related displacement in their cities, in a project supported by the Swedish Institute and part of its Public Sector Innovation Program.

Key insights from the publication include: 

• Exposure to flood-related displacement is concentrated in informal settlements, which themselves tend to be located in wetland areas, in close proximity to the sea, or along drainage pathways that flood when routinely blocked by solid waste;
• Social norms and context also dictate that women tend to assume more intensive responsibility for children and older persons within family and social networks, and men are often absent either engaged in migratory labour, or otherwise electing not to play a role in family life;
• Disability was another factor identified as contributing to an experience of vulnerability;
• A key insight emerging from the City Profiles is that displacement does not feature prominently in city-level planning or practice.