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Policy Dialogue onPolicy Dialogue on

ClimateClimate--InducedInduced

MigrationMigration

in Asia and the Pacificin Asia and the Pacific

IOM Approach toIOM Approach to

Climate Change andClimate Change andMigrationMigration

Md. Shahidul HAQUEMd. Shahidul HAQUE

Director Director 

International OrganizationInternational Organizationfor Migrationfor Migration

1616--17 June 201117 June 2011Bangkok Bangkok 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this paper/presentation are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Asian Development Bank(ADB), or its Board of Governors, or the governments they represent. ADB does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this paper and acceptsno responsibility for any consequence of their use. Terminology used may not necessarily be consistent with ADB official terms.

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Bangladesh

Environmental Migration - IOM Experience

Disasters, erosion and sea-level rise – 

Disaster risk reduction, emergencyresponse and capacity building

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Environmental Migration - IOM Experience

Kyrgyzstan andTurkmenistan

oc a ar ners p nMigration Management forEmergency Situations – 

with a focus on youth

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Environmental Migration - IOM Experience

Philippines

Implementing durable

solutions for the

displaced in Bicol, post

Cambodia

Investing in disaster risk reduction for vulnerablecommunities

Ma in exercise inyp oon ur an

Recovery and

community development

 Northern Provinces

Building communityresilience

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Environmental Migration - IOM Experience

Azerbaijan

Adapting to short term shocks andlong term trends: land erosion

Effective natural resourcemana ement

Kahriz (subterranean water system)rehabilitation

Since1999 nearly 150 Kahrizes

rehabilitatedImpacts on more than 10,000households in rural areas

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Environmental Migration - IOM Experience

Vietnam

Mekong Delta hotspot in

regard of climate change-

enhanced displacement

Buildin a concrete, climate-

China

 

proof bridge in Mang Thit

District

Developing partnership and

visibility

Conducting scoping missions

to gather data and

information

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Environmental Migration - IOM Experience

Sea-level rise

Mauritius

an gra uaenvironmentalchange – 

Sustainabledevelopment andclimate changeadaptation againstmigrationpressures

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IOM’s Working Definition of 

“Environmental Migrants”

“ Environmental migrants are personsor groups of persons who, for compelling 

reasons of sudden or progressive change ine env ronmen a a verse y a ec s

their lives or living conditions, are obliged to leave their habitual homes, or choose todo so, either temporarily or permanently,and who move either within their country or abroad.” 

IOM 2007 

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Managing Environmental Migration:

IOM Approach

• Minimize forced migration resulting

from environmental factors

• Ensure protection and assistance and

devise durable solutions where

displacement is inevitable

• Facilitate the role of migration as an

adaptation strategy to climate change

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5. Address long-term challenges:durable solutions,

migration,development and

adaptation1. Prevent forced

migration,

facilitate

migration asadaptationPrevent

Address

Managing the full cycle of environmental migration

4. Mitigate

impacts of forced

or mass migration

3. Manage

migration:

assistance and

protection

2. Prepare for 

displacement

and relocation

PrepareManage

Mitigate

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 Way Forward: Strategic and

Technical

1. Knowledge Management:

Migration profiles, national

assessments, “clearing house”

2. Capacities enhancement: policy,

institutional, legal, operational

3. Comprehensive migration

policies and guidelines for

adaptation actions

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 Way Forward: Resources

1. Challenges to mobilizing resources

2. Critical issue of raising funds for

“competing” migration priorities.

3. IOM funding facility

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 Way Forward: Political

Commitment

1. Political will and dialogue at national,

regional (Colombo Process)

international levels

. , ,

different stakeholders

3. Participation and empowerment of 

local actors

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Thank ou!

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