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Knowledge Platform on People on the Move in a Changing Climate
July 2017
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Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC) Updates
© 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
 
Top 5 Misconceptions about Environmental Migration (Azerbaijani)

Also available in 
English | French | Spanish
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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:
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.
 

Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC) Publication
A Toolbox: Planning Relocations to Protect People from Disasters and Environmental Change
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.
 
Implementation of the Migration, Environment and Climate Change-related Commitments of the 2030 Agenda
 
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.
 
Drought induced Migration in the South of Madagascar
 
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. 

Videos on Migration, Environment and Climate Change
IOM Development Fund – Madagascar
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.
Climate change and Migration in South America
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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