Human Security Workshop – Dr Clarence Henry OECS
Promoting a Human Security Approach to Disaster Displacement and Environmental Migration Policies Integrating the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in the Eastern Caribbean
Duration: November 2021– April 2023
Budget: US$456,092 (UNTFHS: $303,292; Pooled Resources: 152,800)
Implementing Agencies: IOM(lead), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Small Island Developing States (SIDS), including the Eastern Caribbean SIDS, are frequently exposed to climate related threats and are especially prone to natural disasters that are up to six times more damaging when compared to developed countries. These recurrent threats, along with other shocks faced by the SIDS, disproportionately impact their development and their attainment of the SDGs, with COVID-19 further amplifying their inability to attain the SDGs.
The key objectives of the programme are to: (i) improve policy coherence at the national level in the Eastern Caribbean SIDS on the intersection between natural disasters and environmental displacement, and in the current COVID-19 environment; and (ii) develop and adopt a human security and COVID-19 sensitive regional framework to address cross-border climate-related migration in the Eastern Caribbean.
KEY MATERIALS
Programme Summary
Assessment Tool to Facilitate the Integration of HSA into Environmental Migration and Disaster Displacement Policies and Mechanisms
Best Practices in the Eastern Caribbean on the Protection of Persons Crossing Borders
Cross-border Evacuation Protocol
Infosheet