Accountability and reporting

In 2023, IDMC celebrates its 25th anniversary, so with this annual report for 2022, we look back not only at the productive past year, but also on the progress IDMC has made and the impact it has had since its establishment in 1998. It has been a rewarding opportunity to reflect on our accomplishments, take stock of what we’ve learned and find new ways to apply these lessons to our work now and into the future.

When I wrote my director’s message for last year's report, I ended by saying 2021 would be a year of opportunities. Looking back, I must acknowledge the pandemic made the first year of implementing IDMC’s 2030 strategy more challenging than expected, but we are also thankful for the opportunities 2021 brought. Collectively, we have made many small steps in the right direction during the year, and I truly believe that, working together, we can advance solutions for the world’s internally displaced people (IDPs) in the years ahead. Below I outline three main reasons we remain hopeful.

2020 was an unprecedented and turbulent year for people and the planet. Here at IDMC, as with people across the world, Covid-19 changed the way we work, disrupted our daily lives and confronted us with challenges unimaginable at the beginning of the year. Some things, however, continued unabated. In 2020, civil wars, political and ethnic violence and record-breaking storms continued to uproot millions of people around the globe.