Mission

Our Mission: The Solutions Alliance aims to improve the lives of displaced persons – and the communities that host them – by responding more collaboratively to displacement and contributing to durable solutions.

The Solutions Alliance promotes and enables the transition for displaced persons away from dependency towards increased resilience, self-reliance, and development through the following:

  • Supporting innovative solutions through concrete projects and programmes in displacement situations;
  • Helping to shape the global policy agenda, including the post-2015 development agenda and the New Deal process, to recognise displacement as a development challenge as well as a humanitarian and protection issue, and to work with governments in affected countries toward the inclusion of displacement issues as a cross-cutting theme in national and local development plans; and
  • Ensuring that our diverse and growing group of partners form a vibrant network that collectively maximises the impact of their individual efforts based on the Alliance's principles and objectives.

Approach
Working hand in hand with affected countries, the Solutions Alliance aims to move beyond treating forced displacement simply as a humanitarian issue and towards more holistic approaches. Partners of the Alliance work with affected countries to promote appropriate political and legal frameworks for pursuing lasting solutions for displaced people, using an evidence-based and partnership approach. This includes seeking to mainstream the response to displacement within the wider framework of local and national development plans, programs and budgets in affected countries.

The Alliance also seeks to drive a greater degree of coherence in efforts to foster a development-oriented approach to displacement. The Alliance forms a cooperative platform of actors committed to including displacement as a key part of the international development agenda, helping to inform and guide the approach of bilateral and multilateral actors in providing development support to affected governments. Committed to tangible and measurable achievements, the Alliance will endeavour to share and scale up practices that have led to lasting solutions in other displaced population operations.

Guiding Principles
The Solutions Alliance is guided by the following seven partnership and programming principles:

  • Foster openness, country ownership and accountability
  • Engage key stakeholders
  • Adopt a purpose driven, flexible and partnership-oriented approach
  • Be strategic about expected outcomes, success and sustainability
  • Be context specific and evidence based
  • Be data driven and results oriented
  • Be prepared to engage long term

Key documents

2016 Solutions Alliance Vision Mission & Principles (Wed, 02/10/2016) [pdf]
During the 2016 Solutions Alliance Roundtable, a revised Vision, Mission, and Guiding Principles were approved.