Global environmental change and
migration: knowledge base and policy
International Workshop
Integrating Migration into Development: Diaspora as a Development Enabler
2-3 October 2014
MOST Programme
(i)
(ii)
MOST I (1994-2003)
- Development and use of social science knowledge for
better understanding and management of social
transformations
Most II (2004 to present)
- Efficient interfaces between social science research and
policy
(iii)
- Culture of evidence-based social policy-making
Decision by the IGC MOST (10th session, March 2011) to
focus on:
- Social Inclusion
- Social Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Areas of need
GEC and Migration
(i) Social science knowledge base: availability,
accessibility, quality
(ii) Knowledge uptake: data literacy and usage in policy
and planning processes
(iii) Social science - policy dialogue: interdisciplinary,
sustainable, relevant
Knowledge base and agenda
setting - global level
(i) World Social Science Report 2013 - Changing
Global Environments
- Co-published by ISSC, OECD and UNESCO
- Develops a social science framing of the issue
- Showcases contributions of social sciences
- Explores the social science-policy linkages
- Influences research programming
- Mobilizes social science community to develop
an integrated and transformative science
(ii) Migration and Climate Change
- Reviews the existing body of empirical evidence
- Articulates a social science prospective on the
issue of migration and climate change
Knowledge base and dialogue –Africa
(i)
Climate change, environmental degradation, and
migration in Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire
- Cooperation between and amongst social science
communities and policy practitioners
- Knowledge base on climate change and migration
- Data usage in policy and planning processes
(ii) Climate change mitigation and adaptation in Burkina Faso and Ghana
- Interdisciplinary knowledge production
- Bridging existing networks of experts
- Data users-data producers dialogue
- Media literacy and coverage of the issue
(iii) Climate Change and Migration in Africa
- Data collection through 9 demographic surveillance sites in
Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Knowledge base and dialogue – Asia
• Migration and Global Environmental Change in India
- Stock taking of existing research
- Production of knowledge to fill the identified
gaps
- Mainstreaming foresight and anticipatory
analysis
- Interaction between policy makers and
researchers
• Environmental migration in the Aral Sea region
(Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan)
- Review of social science knowledge base
- Empirical data collection in the Aral Sea region
- Advocacy and agenda-setting
- Media literacy and media coverage
Thank you for your attention.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Social and Human Sciences Sector
Management of Social Transformation (MOST)
www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/most-programme