LEARNING LAB: Mobilizing parliaments to address climate migration

The session will be aligned with Target E of the Sendai Framework which calls for the revision or development of disaster risk reduction strategies. The dialogue will examine strategies that parliaments can support to build resilience to prevent forced climate migration, and the ways that relocation plans can be integrated into disaster risk reduction plans. Understanding that climate-related migration is expected to increase in the region due to an increase in frequency of disasters, it is essential that countries start planning how they will address the potential rise of migrants, including the internal migration of individuals to urban areas, as well as migrants from other countries.

Moreover, the session will highlight the differential circumstances (which may be impacted by the women's sense of security, education, resource availability, and other social demographics) that women and girls consider when weighing the decision of whether they will migrate, and the obstacles they face during the migration process, and upon arriving to their new location. It will also provide recommendations that should be considered to ensure relocation plans are gender responsive.