Ministry of Water and Environment, Ministry of Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, and IOM Pledge Initiative on Migration, Environment and Climate Change Nexus

To accelerate Uganda’s fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Ministry of Water and Environment, the Ministry of Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Uganda pledge to strengthen their partnership to:



(i) Conduct joint analysis, accurate and disaggregated data collection and research and information sharing on the migration, environment, and climate change nexus to better map, understand, predict and address migration movements that may result from the adverse effects of climate change, environmental degradation, and sudden-onset and slow-onset natural disasters.

(ii) Reflect and integrate the significance of environmental degradation, disaster and climate change factors on human mobility in Uganda’s legal and policy framework and practice.

(iii) Strengthen efforts to address human mobility challenges and disasters associated with environmental factors and climate change.

(iv) Integrate population displacement considerations resulting from environment and climate change into disaster preparedness, response and resilience strategies.



This pledge initiative rests on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations; The Global Compact Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration; The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); and The Kyoto Protocol; The Paris Agreement; The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030; The African Charter on Human and People's Rights; The Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, 1995; and The National Climate Change Act, 2021.