The Hyogo Framework, Disaster Risk Reduction and Mobility

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Crisis Migration Project May 2014

The Hyogo Framework, Disaster Risk Reduction and Mobility IOM in Coordination with UNISDR 1. Introduction The importance of considering the linkages between migration and Disaster Risk Reduction There is compelling evidence that disasters have an impact on migration and human mobility.1 At least in its most extreme form, the link between natural disasters and displacement is widely acknowledged in the media and among organizations and academics working on humanitarian, development, or migration issues.2 However, there are only a limited number of publications or policy documents and tools (Foresight, 2011, 137) dedicated to the linkages between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and migration (including migration crisis) and limited analysis of how the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005-2015), the principal international DRR instrument, can contribute to addressing mobility issues related to some of the crisis situations discussed in the Institute for the Study of International Migration’s (ISIM) Crisis Migration Project Description.

Furthermore, even when acknowledged, the linkages between disasters and migration tend to be reduced to the humanitarian side of the phenomenon and in particular to the most visible displacement scenarios,3 related to dramatic events (see Table 1). But, as recently signaled in a Tufts University publication on humanitarian issues, “taken together, migration, urbanization, globalization, and state action related to climate change are changing the planet in unprecedented ways” (Walker 2012, 25).

Working Paper Table of of Contents Contents Table 1. Introduction

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2. Part I: DRR and the Hygo Framwork for Action

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3. Part II: Linking Migration and Mobility to DRR: general approach

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4. Part III: Practical Cases of DRR along the Migration Crisis Management Cycle

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5. Part IV: Lessons Learned and Concluding Remarks

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6. References

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Table 1: Summary of global estimates for new displacement, 2008-2012 (millions) Year Total

2008 36.1

2009 16.7

2010 42.3

2011 16.4

2012 32.4

Total 143.9

Source: IDMC, 2013, 11.

Against this background, recent research has highlighted that the nexus between disasters and mobility is much broader in range (types of linkages) and in scope (types of population and number of people concerned/affected). For instance, efforts have been made to look at the issue of mobility in the context of the impact of climate change. In these

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