Our programme on environment, migration, and mobility focuses on understanding and addressing the complex relationship between environmental factors, human movement, and sustainable development. It involves research, capacity building, policy advocacy, and community engagement, aiming to create more resilient and adaptable communities in the face of environmental changes and migration pressures.
Here’s a more detailed breakdown of what our programme entail:
1. Understanding the Interconnections:
- Environmental Drivers of Migration: Investigating how factors like climate change, resource depletion, and natural disasters contribute to migration patterns.
- Migration and Environmental Change: Analyzing how migration affects the environment, both in origin and destination areas.
- Mobility as Adaptation: Exploring how migration can be a form of adaptation to environmental changes, and how it can be managed effectively.
2. Addressing Key Issues:
- Climate-Induced Displacement and Migration:Providing support and protection to those affected by climate change-related displacement and migration.
- Migration Governance and Policy:Developing policies that promote safe, orderly, and regular migration, taking into account environmental factors.
- Sustainable Development and Migration: Integrating migration into national and regional development strategies, ensuring that it contributes to sustainable development goals.
3. Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing:
- Training and Education: Developing training and educational materials on migration, environment, and climate change.
- Research and Data Collection: Conducting research and collecting data on migration patterns, environmental factors, and their interactions.
- Information Sharing and Networks: Facilitating the exchange of information and experiences between governments, international organizations, and other stakeholders.
4. Building Knowledge and Capacity:
- Community Dialogue: Engaging with affected communities to understand their needs and concerns.
- Participatory Planning: Involving communities in the planning and implementation of programs and projects.
- Empowerment of Marginalized Groups: Prioritizing the needs and voices of vulnerable groups, including women and youth, in the design and implementation of the programme.
- Supporting Adaptation and Resilience: we focus on helping communities build resilience to climate change and explore options for adapting in place while also supporting those who need to move.
- Promoting Dignified Mobility: we emphasize the importance of safe, orderly, and regular migration, and advocate for policies that protect the rights of migrants.
- Building Knowledge and Capacity: we use research, training, and capacity-building initiatives to empower individuals, communities, and policymakers to address climate mobility effectively.
