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Displaying 12 of about 12 resultsThis report summarizes the outcomes of the second Nansen Initiative Regional Consultation that took place from 2-4 December 2013 in San Jose, Costa Rica: “Disasters and Cross-Border Displacement in Central America: Emerging Needs, New Responses.”
The overall objective of the Central American Consultation was to identify specific challenges facing the C…
This report, which focuses on three regions—Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America that together represent 55 percent of the developing world’s population—finds that climate change will push tens of millions of people to migrate within their countries by 2050.
It projects that without concrete climate and development action, just over 143 mi…
This paper showcases different initiatives in the Pacific, the Caribbean and the Horn of Africa region to address climate-related human mobility. There is increasing recognition in many regions and countries across the globe that human mobility in the context of climate change (HMCCC) needs to be integrated into a variety of facets of development p…
This report presents key human mobility trends associated with climate change and disasters in Latin America, and provides an overview of the inter-American human rights and humanitarian law system applicable in that context. The report also presents recommendations for action at the research, policy and operational levels to be implemented in the regio…
The publication discusses the fragmentary empirical data from the Americas on migration-related challenges in the context of natural disasters and analyses the laws, policies and practices of States concerned. It addresses only "international migrants", a term that encompasses both voluntary and forced movements of persons.
The…
El objetivo de este informe es identificar necesidades y oportunidades para integrar cuestiones relativas a la movilidad humana en las estrategias de cambio climático en países de las Américas. El trabajo se estructura en tres componentes principales:
El primer componente se enfoca en el estudio de la situación actual de la integración de la movilida…
This fact sheet presents Nansen Initiative's perspective on disaster risk reduction (DRR). It suggests key messages to inform the drafting of the post-2015 Hyogo Framework for disaster risk reduction with regard to addressing disaster related displacement and highlights a few key recommendations for the Pacific, Central America and the Greater Horn of A…
This policy brief seeks to better understand the nexus between COVID-19, climate change/hurricane season and human mobility in the OECS region. The Eastern Caribbean region is currently faced with a dilemma: On the one hand, the region is struggling with the management of the COVID-19 pandemic which has necessitated extended State of Emergency peri…
América del Sur es una región que presenta condiciones de exposición a riesgos que generan altos niveles de vulnerabilidad ante la ocurrencia de eventos naturales, tales como los deslizamientos, las inundaciones y otras amenazas geofísicas, tales como los sismos, terremotos y erupciones volcánicas. Esta exposición y vulnerabilidad ante las amenazas de o…
This report summarizes an online four-day Training of Trainers (ToT) session in June that aimed to build capacity of border officials to address disaster displacement situations. The ToT is the 2nd phase of training which follows the first virtual delivery to border officials across the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States and the Caribbean Communit…
Este estudio se enfoca en los países miembros del Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de los Desastres Naturales en América Central (CEPREDENAC), institución especializada del Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana (SICA) conformado por Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá y República Dominicana.
El objetivo general…
This study aims to assess policies and mechanisms in Caribbean and Pacific small island developing states (SIDS) that address climate-induced migration and displacement. The migration of communities away from vulnerable regions is highly likely to be an adaptation strategy used in low-elevation SIDS, as the impacts of climate change are likely to result…