🧐 How does #ClimateChange impact #HumanMobility in the Horn of Africa?
Our new analysis estimates:
🔶 1.8M displaced by drought
🔶 5M living in drought-affected areas
🔶 260k migrants moving to/from drought-affected areas
🔶 75k pastoralist dropouts
👉 https://t.co/xEpxMGxcW9
A selfie with my fearless team of enumerators at Juba River Port! Thank you for your committment that makes @DTM_IOM in South Sudan at the forefront of population movemenet #IOMSouthSudan proud to be part of the team!
"Highlighting the report, we note that almost a quarter of the international migrants living in Africa are from the East and Horn of Africa. Some have moved out of choice, and others because they have no choice." @HannaTetteh#RegionOnTheMove2021
What an opportunity to discuss environmental migration data with @icpac_igad and the group of enthusiastic Member States representatives for DRR, Climate Change and Migration!
Last week, @igadsecretariat @icpac_igad and @IOMRONairobi met in Mombasa to discuss enhancing capacities in human #mobility in the context of #disasters, #climatechange and environmental degradation and explore access to quality #data and evidence on disaster #displacement risk.
Thank you @ECHO_CESAfrica@eu_echo for the new 1M€ funding to strengthen the evidence on human mobility and protection along the Eastern Corridor as part of the Migrant Response Plan under the Horn of Africa Humanitarian Implementation Plan 2022, implemented by @DTM_IOM
📢 We revamped the format of our report series on #migration along the Eastern Corridor to include updates on spillover effects of the Northern Ethiopia crisis & a specific focus on migrant children!
Find out more in the January 2022 edition ➡️https://t.co/PrJtSvO3mi
Devastated by killing of a much loved @UNmigration staff who was gunned down in a robbery attack on Friday in Nairobi. We trust the Kenyan authorities will carry out a quick & thorough investigation and bring assailants to justice. Our thoughts are with family and loved ones.
Coinciding with #MigrationWeek is IDAC's side event at 53rd session of #UNSC to dialogue with #NSO community about how to improve the #evidence needed to make informed policies and decisions so that no #child is left behind. Pls register to join https://t.co/7YJ3m7dotD !
@IOMRONairobi & @icpac_igad met today to discuss enhancing access to quality data and evidence on human mobility and its relationship to climate change. An essential step to support policy and minimise disaster displacement risk in the IGAD region 👇
https://t.co/MA0ZPtRek9.
Très honorée d’inaugurer aujourd’hui avec @A_Kamil_Mohamed et 8 ministres, l'usine de recyclage @DjiboutiIom. L’OIM continue de travailler avec le gouvernement afin de favoriser le bien-être économique, social et environnemental des migrants et des Djiboutiens! Merci à l'UE!
Very excited to have IOM data colleagues gathered in Nairobi to discuss how to support IOM’s work and collaboration with member states on improving evidence towards attaining the SDGs!
🎊 The Regional Data Hub workshop to advance the implementation of the IOM Migration Data Strategy (MDS) in the East and Horn of Africa is kicking off today! This workshop brings together staff involved in various migration data & research initiatives in the region.
📢 We are looking for an #informationmanagement / #data analyst candidate! An exciting #opportunity to support the Displacement Tracking Matrix (@DTM_IOM) in the East and Horn of Africa region, in close coordination with @IOM_Yemen.
📅30.11.2021
➡️https://t.co/kJ8hQZU65z
"The higher the proportion of immigrants the lower the willingness of those on above-avg income to support redistributive tax. They retain some sense of obligation to poorer fellow-nationals that erodes as identity gap is widened to non-nationals"
--Oxford economist Paul Collier
📽️ Part 4
🚧 From #EASO to the #EUAA - What will change?
The EUAA will mean enhanced analyses, country guidance & guidelines for Member States to use in their daily work strengthening the harmonisation of practices & creation of the world’s only multinational asylum system.
Our flagship mid-year regional report “A Region on the Move” is out! If you want to know about the latest displacement and migration trends in the East and Horn of Africa read https://t.co/C4uiRjm9Io
📢 The mid-2021 edition of 'A Region on the Move' for the East and Horn of Africa is out!
🔴 Over 1⃣3⃣ million displaced in the region (9.4M IDPs + 3.6M refugees & asylum-seekers)
🔴 Over 8⃣2⃣0⃣,0⃣0⃣0⃣ movements tracked from Jan to Jun 2021
Read more ➡️https://t.co/X14dvGctqw