- Project title: Enhancing resilience and empowerment in communities at risk of climate-induced migration
- Project duration: April 2024 – December 2025 (21 months)
- Resource partners: FAO Flexible Voluntary Contribution resource partners
- Countries: Nepal, Uganda
- Total budget: USD 800 000
Rural populations are exceptionally vulnerable to the effects of climate change, as their livelihoods depend on agriculture and natural resources. In Uganda, climate change could result in up to 12 million internal migrants by 2050, while Nepal's fragile ecosystem and reliance on rainfed agriculture could force about 1.3 million people to migrate due to climate disasters alone. In this context, remittances and diaspora can play a key role to reduce climate vulnerability and enhance resilience and adaptive capacity.
Leveraging funding from the Flexible Voluntary Contribution mechanism, FAO seeks to enhance climate resilience and adaptive capacity in rural areas of Nepal and Uganda, targeting communities at high risk of climate-induced migration.
Why FAO
FAO addresses the rural dimensions of migration and its implications for rural populations and agrifood systems through its unique technical expertise in food security, climate change adaptation, agribusiness, diaspora engagement, and food value chain development.
Interventions
The project operates through an innovative approach that intersects migration, food security and climate change, leveraging diaspora contributions for climate action and FAO’s technical expertise in rural livelihoods and climate adaptation. The main objectives are to:
- Improve access to information. It prioritizes enhancing access to information, especially for women and youth, to make safe migration choices and informed climate adaptation decisions.
- Strengthen adaptive capacities. The project provides training to women and youth to improve their capacities on climate-adaptive agricultural practices and facilitates their access to inputs or technologies to adopt those practices.
- Mobilize diaspora for climate adaptation. The project taps into the potential of diaspora to invest in green and sustainable agribusiness and contribute to climate adaptation. By mobilizing diaspora networks for climate action and establishing diaspora–youth matching systems, the programme fosters business collaborations and mentorship, showcasing diaspora's role in driving innovation, including through the transfer of knowledge and skills.
- Support policymaking processes. The project focuses on building the capacities of governments and stakeholders to incorporate human mobility into national and local adaptation planning to benefit rural communities.
Videos
Nepal: Reintegrating returning migrants for a better tomorrow
27/03/2023
In Nepal, FAO is working with local governments to enhance their capacity to support returning migrants, as well as women and youth who remained in their rural areas of origin.
Related publications
Managing climate mobility
21/07/2023
The effects of climate change are threatening the viability of rural livelihoods and increasing pressures to migrate. Managing climate mobility is one of the priorities of FAO’s work on rural migration. It aims to help people build climate-resilient livelihoods and thereby reduce the pressure to migrate; and help migrants and diaspora contribute to inclusive climate action. The leaflet is part of a brochure that presents FAO’s work on rural migration, along with each priority for action. The leaflet includes a description of what FAO does, with whom and why, presenting tangible results and stories from the field.