West Africa: a testing ground for regional solutions

Abstract

West Africa has a very mobile population and high vulnerability to natural hazards. It also, however, has a number of regional cooperation agreements and may therefore be a useful testing ground for addressing cross-border disaster displacement.

Keywords

• refugee
• IDP
• stateless
• internal displacement
• forced migration
• migration
• disasters
• climate change
• relocation
• adaptation
• West Africa
• regional cooperation
• cross-border disaster displacement