Djibouti faces a range of climate-related challenges that impact its population. In Djibouti City alone, the minimum temperature recorded has risen by close to 1.3°C in 30 years, with projections indicating an increase of average temperatures between 0.6°C and 2.4°C by 2050. Due to interactions between climate change and existing social challenges and high poverty levels, rural communities in the country face a lack of water availability, loss of livelihoods and food insecurity incurred by recurrent drought. The resulting vulnerabilities have forced the rural population to increasingly settle on the outskirts of larger urban centers. The project’s objective is, therefore, to contribute to enhancing the Government of Djibouti’s responsiveness to socio-economic and mobility related challenges caused by environmental degradation. It aims to do this by supporting the key actors in areas hosting transit migration to implement evidence based actions on the socio-economic impacts of environmental degradation on vulnerable groups (Outcome1). Key outputs include holistic research on the impact of climate induced mobility through a gender-sensitive lens with recommendations for concrete actions (Output 1.1 ) together with conducting capacity-development and awareness raising activities on environmental protection for migrants and host communities (Output 1.2). In addition, the project seeks to ensure that environmental degradation induced challenges are mitigated in communities with transiting migrants, by focusing on sustainable waste management (Outcome 2). It will do this by establishing a plastic waste management center creating synergies with the existing plastic recycling unit IOM operationalized in 2022 (Output 2.1).