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Environmental Migration Portal Newsletter
Knowledge Platform on People on the Move in a Changing Climate
July 2017
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Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC) Updates
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| © IOM 2017
National Consultation on Migration, Environment and Climate Change
for the Global Compact for Migration in Azerbaijan
and Launch of IOM's MECC Training Manual
Baku, 16 June 2017
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) organized in collaboration
with the Government of Azerbaijan a national consultation entitled “Emerging
theme: Migration, Environment and Climate Change”, as a contribution to the
development of the Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration. The
Global Compact for Migration will be the first intergovernmental agreement on
international migration and the preparatory process to the negotiations
examines issues related to climate and environmental migration, notably through
the recent organization of a thematic session dedicated to “Addressing drivers
of migration, including adverse effects of climate change, natural disasters”
on 22 and 23 May 2017 in New York.
In order to ensure that the Global Compact for Migration adequately addresses
issues of environmental migration, it is critical that concerned states provide
national inputs to the development of the Compact; highlighting the challenges
they face to manage environmental migration but also their vision on how
opportunities can be seized in a context where the adverse impacts of climate
change represent one of the global challenges of our times. In that respect,
the Baku national consultation was a milestone event to support the Government
of Azerbaijan in the development of specific inputs on environmental migration
that can feed into the Global Compact for Migration’s regional and global
consultations.
The consultation also represented the opportunity to complement the project
implemented by IOM on environmental migration in 2015-2017, including the May
2016 capacity building workshop on migration, environment and climate change
held in Baku.
At the onset of the consultation, IOM launched the Azerbaijani and Russian
version of its Migration, Environment and Climate Change Training Manual,
providing an essential tool to support relevant governmental entities in their
understanding and management of environmental migration.
Participants representing various ministries concerned with environmental
migration, including the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology and the
State Migration Services, developed a number of recommendations that will be
reviewed by the Government. Key recommendations included the need to develop,
finance and implement more joint projects on environmental migration, bringing
together intergovernmental agencies such as IOM and all the relevant entities
within the Government of Azerbaijan. Recommendations also underlined the
necessity to encourage the inclusion of migration issues in national climate
change and environmental plans and policies and vice-versa, the integration of
climate change and environmental concerns in migration policies, plans and
programmes. The issue of creating strong synergies between the development of
the Global Compact for Migration and the implementation of the
migration-related dimensions of the Paris Climate Agreement was also raised.
For more information, visit IOM Azerbaijan's website
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| Top 5 Misconceptions about Environmental Migration (Azerbaijani)
Also available in
English | French | Spanish |
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| © UNDP Bangladesh/GMB Akash
5th Meeting of the Steering Group
of the Platform on Disaster Displacement
Geneva, 20 July 2017
The Platform on Disaster Displacement held on 20 July 2017 its 5th Meeting of
the Steering Group, to which IOM, the UN Migration Agency, is a Standing
Invitee.
This meeting served as a celebration of PDD’s one year anniversary and offered
an opportunity for both IOM and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to report back on
their commitment to implement the recommendations of the Nansen Initiative
Protection Agenda and to support the work of the state-led Platform on Disaster
Displacement (PDD). IOM’s contributions are in line with the four priorities of
the 2016-2019 PDD Workplan, focusing on i) addressing data and knowledge gaps;
ii) enhancing the use of effective practices for protection and reducing risks;
iii) advancing policy coherence; and iv) promoting policy and normative
development.
Major activities include:
- Setting up the PDD Data and Knowledge Working Group.
- Launching the Guide to Effective Practices for RCM Member Countries:
protection for persons moving across borders in the context of disasters as
well as A Toolbox: Planning Relocations to Protect People from Disasters and
Environmental Change.
- Holding the first Bi-national Workshop on developing Standard Operating
Procedures (SOPs) in case of cross-border displacement between Costa Rica and
Panama and planning their application in the upcoming simulation in August 2017.
- Addressing the 107th IOM Council through a High-Level Panel on
Opportunities for policy development to address climate migration and
cross-border disaster displacement.
- Contributing to the process of developing the Global Compact for Migration
(GCM), and preparing thematic meetings of Regional Consultative Processes on
Migration (RCPs) in Central and North America and in the IGAD-region.
The meeting was also an opportunity for Steering Group Members to interact with
the newly appointed Envoy of the Chair, Prof. Walter Kaelin. As the former
Adviser to the PDD Chair and the former Envoy of the Nansen Initiative, Prof.
Kaelin is fully engaged in the Platform’s work. He sees two priorities for PDD:
i) to engage regional stakeholders for addressing all four priorities of the
PDD; and ii) to continue furthering the topic of disaster displacement in the
process of developing the Global Compact for Migration.
The Members of the Steering Group also took stock of their engagement in past
policy processes and planned upcoming key moments for 2017. Of notable mention
is the outcome of the Cancun Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, where
disaster displacement featured prominently and is acknowledged in the Chair’s
Summary and the Cancun High-Level Communiqué, as a result of a
multi-stakeholder engagement in which IOM also took part. Disaster displacement
is also mentioned in this year’s ECOSOC HAS annual resolution, the Human Rights
Council annual resolution on Human Rights and Climate Change, the GCM
Co-facilitators Summary of the Second Informal Thematic Session, the UNFCCC WIM
Task Force on Displacement Workplan as well as in the Dhaka 9th GFMD Chair’s
Summary. PDD will contribute to the 23rd UN Climate Change Conference (COP23)
in Bonn, Germany this November, and to the preparatory meetings for the
forthcoming Global Compacts for Migration and on Refugees.
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Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC) Publication
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| A Toolbox: Planning Relocations to Protect People from Disasters and
Environmental Change |
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| This Toolbox is intended to complement the Guidance for Protecting People
from Disasters and Environmental Change through Planned Relocations, which was
developed by UNHCR, the Brookings Institution and Georgetown University through
a series of meetings between 2011 and 2015. These meetings brought together
representatives of States, international organizations and experts from a wide
range of disciplines and experiences.
This Toolbox, developed by Georgetown University, UNHCR, and IOM in close
cooperation with the World Bank and UN University, seeks to provide concrete
suggestions for States and other actors who are contemplating or planning to
relocate people in order to protect them from disasters and environmental
change.
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| Implementation of the Migration, Environment and Climate Change-related
Commitments of the 2030 Agenda |
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| in IOM, 2017. Migration in the 2030 Agenda.
In September 2015, the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda was adopted, and for
the first time, migration was included in mainstream global development policy.
With the objective of communicating how IOM identifies migration in the 2030
Agenda to stakeholders and the wider public, and to shed light on the complex
challenges and opportunities that accompany the migration-related targets, this
IOM publication aims to showcase how different areas of migration are addressed
in the Sustainable Development Goals.
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| Drought induced Migration in the South of Madagascar |
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| The greater south of Madagascar, known as the "Grand Sud (Great South)", is
characterized by alternating periods of rain and drought. This situation was
exacerbated by the effects of El Niño in 2015 and led to a major food crisis
and played a crucial role in initiating migration in the region.
There is an apparent correlation between the latest episode of severe drought
and a significant migratory flow – beyond the well-documented phenomena of
traditional mobility from the region since the 1970s. In fact, most people do
not move voluntarily, but are forced to migrate because there is no other
choice, migration being characterized therefrom rather as a survival strategy
than an adaptation strategy, leading to potential negative impacts for the
migrants themselves, for communities of origin, and for communities of
destination.
In order to obtain more accurate information on migration trends in the Grand
Sud, IOM carried out a rapid qualitative assessment in December 2016, in order
to determine: how does the drought affect migration in the Grand Sud; whether
there been an increase in out-migration during the current humanitarian crisis
(since 2013); and what are the key sectors of intervention that affect
migration in the Grand Sud, and in turn, how does migration affect these
sectors.
The report is also available in French. |
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Videos on Migration, Environment and Climate Change
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| IOM Development Fund in Madagascar
Since 2015, the IOM Development Fund (IDF) has been supporting the Government
of Madagascar through the funding of projects in counter-trafficking, labour
migration, and migration, environment and climate change. In June, IOM’s Media
and Communication Division and IOM Madagascar developed a video to showcase the
success of IDF projects in Madagascar. |
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| Migration, Environment and Climate Change in South America
IOM works closely with governments in South America to reduce migrants'
vulnerability, address forced migration, and respond to natural disasters. |
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Media Highlights
- A Look At 'Climate Migration' From Sub-Saharan Africa To The Gulf Coast
(WNPR)
- Will Africa’s Great Green Wall discourage migration to Europe? (The
Guardian)
- Planning needed for climate-induced migration (Radio New Zealand)
- 'The island is being eaten': how climate change is threatening the Torres
Strait (The Guardian)
- Climate Change-Poverty-Migration: The New, Inhuman ‘Bermuda Triangle’ (IPS)
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Research Database Updates
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| Running in Quicksand: Environmental Change, Migration, and the Policy
Imperatives |
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| A Region at Risk: The Human Dimensions of Climate Change in Asia and the
Pacific
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Small-island communities in the Philippines prefer local measures to relocation
in response to sea-level rise
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Upcoming Events
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| Oxford Symposium on Population, Migration, and the Environment
3 August 2017 | Oxford, UK
RCM Capacity Building Workshop on Displacement in the Context of Disasters and
Climate Change
8-9 August 2017 | San José, Costa Rica
IOM Southern Africa Internal Capacity Building Workshop on Migration,
Environment and Climate Change
22-23 August 2017 | Pretoria, South Africa
Environmental Migration: The State of the Research in West Africa
6 September 2017 | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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IOM Vacancy
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| IOM Viet Nam, Hanoi, Consultant - Training Material Developer
Deadline: 3 August 2017 |
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