Migration as adaptation? A comparative analysis of policy frameworks on the environment and development in MECLEP countries

This paper aims to discuss possible adaptation policies and current climate change and development policy structures on human mobility. It presents available national policy channels for positive adaptation, as well as the ways in which proactively managed migration can be incorporated within these existing frameworks.

The brief is supported by key findings from the six assessment reports of the Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy (MECLEP) project, funded by the European Union with the financial assistance of IOM’s Development Fund and implemented by IOM in partnership with six universities. The overall aim of this project is to provide evidence for environmental migration and build a case for migration as an adaptation strategy to environmental change.

Environment Migration Portal, Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series, Issue 5, Vol. 1, November 2015. This document is part of the "Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series" of the International Organization for Migration.