Regional Programme on Climate Change, Conflict, Displacement and Irregular Migration in Sahel: Preparation support The overall goal of the new initiative is to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to avoid, minimize or address the effects of climate change in fragile situations, including as a driver or threat multiplier of fragility, conflict, displacement and irregular migration. The programme will add a long-term climate change perspective to current and immediate challenges of conflict, displacement and migration, whether related to droughts, floods or lack of viable livelihoods. The programme will, inter alia, seek to support preventive and local solutions to problems reinforced by climate change in areas with particularly affected local populations, including refugees and internally displaced along with vulnerable local communities.