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Environmental Migration Portal Newsletter - Special Edition: MECLEP
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Environmental Migration Portal Newsletter
Special Edition
Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy (MECLEP)
June 2017
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| After more than three years of implementation (January 2014 – March 2017),
the European-Union funded "Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence
for Policy“ (MECLEP) project ended in March 2017. The project was implemented
by IOM in a consortium of six universities: |
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Université de Versailles
Saint Quentin, France
Bielefield University, Germany
Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies
(CEDEM), University of Liège, Belgium |
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Research Center on Citizenship, Migration, and the City (CIMIC), Erasmus
University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencas Sociales (FLACSO), Costa Rica
Institute for the Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations
University, Germany |
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| The project also received financial assistance from IOM Development Fund
(IDF) and IOM. The project explored how migration, including displacement and
planned relocation, can benefit adaptation strategies to environmental and
climate change, by comparing data collected in six pilot countries: the
Dominican Republic, Haiti, Kenya, the Republic of Mauritius, Papua New Guinea
and Viet Nam.
Major findings of the research study conducted in the framework of the MECLEP
project are:
- Migration often has a positive impact on adaptation as it allows
households affected by environmental and climate change to diversify income, to
improve their employment, health and education opportunities and to increase
their preparedness for future hazards;
- Displacement due to natural hazards poses more challenges to adaptation,
often linked to an increasing vulnerability of those displaced;
- Planned relocation can both represent a successful adaptation strategy and
expose the affected population to new vulnerabilities.
Many policy implications emerged from the research study. In particular:
- The necessity of integrating migration into urban planning to reduce
challenges for both migrant households and the communities of destination;
- The need of paying particular attention to gender issues and to the needs
of vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and trapped populations that cannot
move.
In general, the MECLEP project highlighted the importance for countries
affected by environmental and climate change to produce a solid evidence base
on the migration-climate change nexus, to formulate adequate and comprehensive
policy responses. For instance, the findings of the survey conducted in the
Republic of Mauritius include a recommendation to establish a regular data
collection system on migration to inform local authorities regarding potential
internal migration into urban areas. Remarkably, the Republic of Mauritius is
now working on a high level policy document on migration and climate change.
Linking collecting the evidence base with policy through tailored training
workshops proved to be very valuable to support countries in mainstreaming
mobility in climate change adaptation plans and vice versa.
Below is a summary of all the outputs produced in the context of the MECLEP
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Research
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| Final Comparative Report |
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| National Country-Level Assessments |
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| Assessing the Evidence: Migration, Environment and Climate Change in Papua
New Guinea |
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| Assessing the Evidence: Opportunities and Challenges of Migration in
Building Resilience Against Climate Change in the Republic of Mauritius |
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| Assessing the Evidence: Migration, Environment and Climate Change in Kenya
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| Diagnóstico de Informaciones para Políticas Públicas: Migración,
Medioambiente y Cambio Climático en la República Dominicana |
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| Assessing the Evidence: Migration, Environment and Climate Change in Viet Nam
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| Defis, Enjeux et Politiques: Migrations, Environnement et Changements
Climatiques en Haiti |
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| Survey Reports |
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Working paper
How can migration support adaptation?
Different options to test the migration-adaptation nexus
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Data Briefing
Data on Environmental Migration:
How Much do we Know? |
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| Infographics on the Migration-Environment Nexus |
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Regional Maps
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| MECLEP Video
Environmental Change, Natural Disasters and Human Mobility in Haiti |
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Migration, Environment and Climate Change Glossary in Three Languages
English
French
Spanish |
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Capacity Building
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| Capacity Building Training Manual in Five Languages
English, French, Spanish
Russian and Azerbaijani
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Five Policymaker Capacity Building Workshops |
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Six Researcher Capacity Building Workshops |
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Dialogue and Knowledge Sharing
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Environmental Migration Portal
and twenty monthly portal newsletters released |
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| Twenty Policy Briefs |
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Launch Events of the MECLEP Final Report
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| Briefing in Geneva on
“Evidence for policy on environmental migration:
Results from the global MECLEP project and IOM’s wider work”
Location: IOM Headquarters, 17, route des Morillons, CH-Geneva 19 (1st floor)
Time: 12 June 2017 | 2:00 to 3:30pm
During the briefing, the key results and main findings of the research as well
as the policy implications that emerged in the context of the project will be
presented and complemented by how the programme feeds into IOM’s broader work
on the topic, including in fora such as the Global Compact on Migration and UN
climate change negotiations.
Speakers:
- William Lacy Swing, Director General, IOM
- Jill Helke, Director, International Cooperation and Partnerships
Department, IOM
- Susanne Melde, Global MECLEP Project Coordinator, IOM’s Global Migration
Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), Berlin
- Dina Ionesco, Head, Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC)
Division, IOM
To RSVP, please contact Ms. Sieun Lee (silee@xxxxxxx).
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| Launch in Brussels
“Making mobility work for adaptation to environmental changes:
Results from the MECLEP global research”
will be jointly launched by the European Union
and IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre
Location: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Rue Montoyer 40
B-1000 Brussels, 6th floor
Time: 16 June 2017 l 12:00 – 1:30pm
Speakers:
- Frank Laczko, Director of IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre
(GMDAC);
- Susanne Melde, Global project coordinator, IOM GMDAC;
- François Gemenne, Director of Hugo Observatory, University of Liège;
Executive Director “Politics of the Earth”, Sciences Po, Paris.
To RSVP, please contact Laura Boucsein (lboucsein@xxxxxxx) |
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| All publications are available on the Environmental Migration Portal
For more information on MECLEP, please contact Susanne Melde, +49 30 278 778 19
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