Empowering refugee and migrant led organisations – recommendations to grant-giving foundations
Image: A young girl walks across a makeshift bridge over stagnant flood-water in Sindh province, Pakistan. DfID / Magnus Wolfe-Murray. (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Empowering refugee and migrant led organisations – recommendations to grant-giving foundations
Image: A young girl walks across a makeshift bridge over stagnant flood-water in Sindh province, Pakistan. DfID / Magnus Wolfe-Murray. (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Action on climate-linked migration and displacement: Empowering refugee and migrant led organisations
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Which organisations receive funding, and what for, is a key driver of strong climate action. How can funders strategically and inclusively empower refugee and migrant led organisations working on climate-linked mobility? We spoke with representatives of refugee and migrant led organisations in Africa, the Middle East and Europe, discussing drivers and barriers to participating in the political and policy debates about climate-linked mobility. The result, outlined in this report, is a set of nine recommendations for strategic intervention by funders in this space. The recommendations address the specific concerns raised by refugee and migration organisations, as well as the ways in which climate change is likely to fundamentally reshape patterns of mobility. This report was commissioned by the foundation Robert Bosch Stiftung, which has invested 1.9 billion euros in charitable work since it was established in 1964.
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Our investigation explores the potential for refugee and migrant led organisations to become active participants in the political and policy debates about climate-linked mobility. To understand this, we spoke to 12 representatives from refugee and migration organisations who have started working on the issue, to understand both the motivations for, and barriers to, undertaking this work. Through these interviews we have distilled the common driving or motivating forces that pushed these organisations to begin working on climate-linked mobility, as well as the common barriers and challenges that constrained their work. Based on this analysis, combined with our experience working on climate-linked mobility, and the insights from the interviews, the report offers a series of recommendations for strategic intervention by funders in this space:
Widen the field of organisations working on climate-linked mobility Fund organisations that are at different stages of their thinking and development on climate-linked mobility Fund southern organisations to turn their work into international advocacy Create a supportive structure for organisations new to the space Support individual champions while they create internal organisational consensus Encourage northern climate and environmental organisations to collaborate, but listen to southern partners Fund a diversity of approaches, but play to existing strengths Offer long-term, flexible funding, especially to southern organisations Show leadership
These are designed to specifically engage with the concerns raised by refugee and migration organisations, and with the ways in which climate change may fundamentally reshape patterns of mobility in the coming years. They focus on how and where to direct funding to achieve key strategic impact in this arena. The recommendations also focus on how to sustain and grow established work by refugee and migration organisations, as well as nurture new entrants into the space and help them start working on climate-linked mobility. These interventions could re-shape the debate about climate-linked mobility. The interventions could also push the issue up the political agenda and make refugee and migrant voices central to the debate. This new political traction could accelerate many of the policy processes designed to address climate-linked mobility, and ultimately lead to better outcomes in terms of welfare and legal protection for the most vulnerable.
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