Climate Induced Forced Displacement (CIFD) : Challenges and Way Forward Nansen Initiative Regional Consultation Khulna, Bangladesh Tanvir Mahmud Advocacy Coordinator April 3, 2015

Oxfam in Bangladesh Oxfam’s involvement in Bangladesh began in 1970 assisting the then cyclone victims and supporting the people of Bangladesh during the Liberation War in For our work in 1971 Oxfam was one of only three organizations honored as a Friend of the Bangladesh Liberation War in 2012.

Oxfam’s Vision Oxfam’s vision is a just world without poverty: a world in which people can influence decisions that affect their lives, enjoy their rights, and assume their responsibilities as full citizens of a world in which all human beings are valued and treated equally. We work with a wide range of partners including Government, CSOs/ NGOs, medias, universities, private sector. Thrust Areas of Oxfam: Economic and Climate Resilience Active citizenship and good governance: eengaging more directly with youth and the middle-classes Urbanizations and Inequality use of ICTs in our work The challenges of Oxfam and others’ in Bangladesh is for the issue of CIFD is a matter of the youth and the middle class….. Not just policy maker

Oxfam’s Key Program Specific to Climate Change in Bangladesh Resilience through Economic Empowerment, Climate Change Adaptation, Leadership and Learning (REECALL) Program; Strengthening the role of NSA in Climate Change policy formulation in South Asia and enhancing capacities to influence global climate negotiations; Research on Climate Induced Displacement Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihood ( CSRL) Influencing at National, Regional ( SAARC) and International level ( CoP, UNFCCC);

Climate Justice & Oxfam Changing weather patterns are impacting upon food production, poverty, food security, placement and social stability. Climate change and variability exacerbates existing inequalities, with the poor and marginalised disproportionally impacted by shocks and stresses. There is urgent need for the poor to expand and diversify their livelihood options and make them more resilient to climate and economic change. Photo: Shibly

Climate Justice & Oxfam (Contd..) Mamtaz' story: The fight for climate justice in the Bay of Bengal (video) fight-climate-justice-bay-bengal

Climate Induced Forced Displacement (CIFD) About 40,000 ± 10,000 people have been forced and subsequently displaced on an average year by these climate induced phenomena from their own land (Ahmed and Neelormi, 2008). About 27 million people on an average have been displaced per year due to implications of climate change. More than 80% have been observed in South Asian countries (IDMC,2014). Climate Induced Forced Displacement (CIFD) is quite a different phenomena than conventional displacement/migration. Therefore, persons under CIFD cannot be comparable to the experiences of ‘opportunistic migrants’.

Managing the climate induced displacement: Is it an Issue of any single Country? It is observed that, the international process to deal with climate induced forced displacement has been rather slow to pick up the issue. Since most of such forced displacements are occurring in resource constrained countries, it is often beyond their capacity to deal with the issue without adequate international support and policy instrument. So Collective Effort is essential ……Just Now! Photo: Shibly

Way Forward At national Level: a. Include Climate induced displaced in the BCCSAP and national planning process: The GoB is about to start the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) and Seventh Five Year Development Planning (SFYP) processes, we strongly recommend that the issue regarding climate change induced forced displacement to be integrated in NAP and SFYP; b. Develop Internal Displacement Policy (IDP); Bangladesh: Best Practices First developing countries to develop a National Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP). Adopted the Disaster Management Act (DMA) in 2012, which introduced new accountability frameworks, institutionalised a DRR approach and established the Ministry of Disaster Management. GoB has also created a Climate Change Fund using its own resources and set up a Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Climate Change (Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF)Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF)

Way Forward….. At international level: a. Climate induced displaced should be included in all global discourses as separate agenda: This is being observed that the agenda on climate induced displaced is not included in many important global development discourses like, Post 2015 SDG, RIO+20 etc, despite being discussed at COPs under 14(f) of Cancun Agreement. b. International policies will have to be reviewed and updated: We demand all international policies to be brought under a global review process so that the rights of the climate induced forced displaced population may be upheld.

Way Forward…… From UNFCCC and UN process : a.Climate displaced issue as separate agenda in COP negotiation process: The climate induced forced displacement is a not a local crisis, rather IPCC recognizes it as a global and human rights crisis. Bangladesh govt. may take the lead developing a text for submission to CoP process. a.Develop new international protocol under UN process: The Cancun Adaptation framework is also leveraging us and demanding to develop a new international protocol through UN process.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

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