Assessing the Current and Future Dynamics of Environmental Migration for Enhanced Policy Making: Kyrgyzstan

The project proposes an interdisciplinary research to be designed and carried out in collaboration with academic and governmental institutions and aiming to:

• Identify the present and future destination areas of environmental migration, the number of environmental migrants expected and the receiving capacity.
• Identify the present and future areas of origin of environmental migration and propose disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures to prevent forced movements.
• Establish the socio-economic and demographic profiles of environmental migrants and understand how migration is used as an adaptation strategy (and how this differs for different groups).
• Evaluate the capacity of local, regional and national government bodies to deal with environmental migration, including its preparedness and efforts made in terms of DRR.
• Make available the research findings to inform policy making and generate policy-oriented recommendations for the management of environmental and climate related migration in origin and destination areas, including concrete measures for preparedness and DRR.
• Promote future research and expertise – including capacity building measures – on the theme of environment, climate change and migration