Migration
Risk-Managed Decision-Making of People Engaged in Nomadic Migration, Displacement, Resettlement, &/or Return
Overview of the RLRMC Approach
Most research on aspects of integrated community-based prospective risk managed development assumes sedentary populations. As such populations are primarily fixed in one location, their livelihood strategies, basic social services strategies, and risk management strategies can be based on investment in natural, physical, human, and social capital in that location. But some populations or subgroups of populations migrate to different locations permanently or temporarily. Whether displaced by climate, conflict, or outbreak related risks or events; resettled in relocation programs inspired by mitigation of such risks or other development priorities; returned after having been previously displaced or resettled; or engaged in occasional relatively nomadic practices of migrating regularly as a strategy, such migration changes the spatial and temporal aspects of risk for some stakeholders and thereby affects investment and strategy decision-making. Risk identification, analysis, and assessment methodologies need to incorporate how realized and projected migration will affect prospective risks so that such changes can be incorporated into risk-managed development decision-making.
Selected Related Consultancies and Training
- IDP Return Needs & Risk Assessment Consultant for iMMAP Iraq through iMMAP France, the Regional Food Security Analysis Network, & FAO Iraq
- Contributor to the International Consultation Workshop on Reducing Relocation Risks as a preliminary event toward UN Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador
- Social Science Lead Consultant for the Detailed Island Risk Assessment of the Maldives post-tsunami resettlement program through UNDP, UNEP, and the Government of the Maldives
- Economic Advisor and Research Consultant in Bosnia-Herzegovina for World Vision on integrated job creation, sustainability measures, and civil society and rural cooperative development for post-conflict sustainable return of displaced people, including assessment of processes affecting choices regarding whether to return or assimilate
- Significant work toward understanding migration decisions in the ASALs of East Africa as the Team Leader for the UNICEF East & Southern Africa Regional Office Consultancy Review of Adaptive Basic Social Service Provision to Reduce Disaster Risk of Vulnerable Populations Especially Children in Selected Horn of Africa Countries and as the Team Leader for an IFRC Regional Representation in East Africa Community Resilience Consultancy
Selected Related Publications
- “Rural Livelihood Processes Affecting Post-Conflict Sustainable Return: A Framework with Application in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, Proceedings of University of Hawai`i at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture Symposium, April 3, 2004.
Selected Related Presentations
- “Reducing Relocation Risks” Summary Presentation at Evento de Consulto International Reduciendo los Riesgos de Reubicacion (International Consultation Workshop on Reducing Relocation Risks as a preliminary event for UN Habitat III), Quito, Ecuador, 14-15 October, 2016.
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