GFMD Platform for Partnerships (PfP) - People on the Move in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change: Addressing their Assistance and Protection Needs in the Global Compact for Migration
7 December 10h40-11h00, Toubkal Room, Palmeraie Conference Center, Marrakesh, Morcco
Organizers: PDD, IOM, UNHCR, Bangladesh
PDD promotes and supports the implementation of existing effective practices and policy instruments to reduce the hazards (e.g. through climate change mitigation) and to strengthen a community’s resilience with comprehensive climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development in order to help people stay. Planned relocation and enhanced regular migration pathways are a way to help people move safely out of harm’s way in high-risk situations and when displacement is difficult to avert or prevent. Finally, PDD promotes ways to address the protection needs of people who are displaced, across international borders.
This joint presentation will bring together States, international organizations and other stakeholders to discuss how to enhance action and scale up commitment and partnership with regard to addressing displacement and other forms of human mobility in the context of disasters, environmental degradation and the adverse effects of climate change, in ways which are consistent with international legal frameworks and standards. In particular, it will focus on disaster and climate change related commitments and policy instruments listed under objectives 2, 5 and 23 of the GCM, and make proposals on how to support their implementation.
All GFMD 2018 Summit delegates are invited to attend the Platform for Partnerships (PFP) Session, to be held on 7 December 2018, 10h00-12h30, at the Toubkal Room, Palmeraie Conference Center, Marrakesh. The PFP session will provide government and non-state partners (international organizations, civil society and the private sector) with an opportunity to exchange relevant migration and development policies and practices. Comprised of presentations with an interactive Q&A, the PfP session will also offer a space for policymakers to initiate and foster new programs and partnerships, and draw from the policy recommendations of the different presenters working in the field of migration and development.
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While in Marrakesh visit the art installation: New Futures and Possibilities: Art and Disaster Displacement during Migration Week by Displacement: Uncertain Journeys and the Platform on Disaster Displacement
