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Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific - An integrated approach to address climate change and disaster risk management

Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific - An integrated approach to address climate change and disaster risk management

Disaster
Policy
2016
Year of publication
2016
Specific thematic area
Disaster preparedness, management and/or response
Sector of governance
Disaster
Type of human mobility
Displacement, Migration, Relocation
Characteristics of human mobility
Labour
Type of environmental driver
Disaster- related events, Generic references to climate climate change
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Both
Regional instruments Member countries
Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Niue, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Pitcairn Islands, Wallis, Futuna, Samoa, American Samoa, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Nauru, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, United States of America (USA), France, Chile, Brunei, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Northfolk Island, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Timor Leste, Tokelau
Sub-region
Multiple
Region
Multiple
Macro-region
Multiple
Author/issuing body
Pacific Community (SPC)
Relevant GCM objective
    GCM Objective 2 - Minimize adverse drivers
Child marker
B
Gender marker
B
Human rights marker
A

“Both rapid- and slow-onset events can result in displacement of affected people and communities, as a result of land degradation and loss, and of serious declines in water and food security, health and educational opportunities”.

Ps. 9, 22, 23

“k) Anticipate and prepare forfuture displacement by integrating human mobility issues within disaster preparedness, response and recovery program and actions; “l) Support increasing the protection of individuals and communities most vulnerable to climate change and post- disaster displacement and migration through targeted national and regional policies and regional labor migration schemes; (...) “p) Integrate human mobility aspects, where appropriate, including strengthening the capacity of governments and administrations to protect individuals and communities that are vulnerable to climate change and disaster displacement and migration, through targeted national policies and actions, including relocation and labor migration policies”.

Ps. 9, 22, 23

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).