Paper details
| Paper authors | Sheryn See; Aaron Opdyke; Susan Banki |
| In panel on | Alternative humanitarian approaches to the intersection between climate change and displacement |
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Abstract
While it is common for displaced communities fleeing conflict to be the recipients of significant humanitarian aid, we don’t yet see similar protection granted to those who flee climate change impacts. There is a growing need to focus attention on how climate change is compounding and complicating forced migration, and subsequently how these complex displacement crises influence humanitarian responses. Our research aims to explore how humanitarian organisations are responding to the increasing complexity of displacement situations in the context of climate change, focusing on the design and implementation of shelter as a humanitarian response.
Drawing upon interviews with staff from selected humanitarian organisations working in the Philippines, we seek to (1) gather information on how decision-makers in the forced migration space define various forms of displacement; and (2) identify the climate-related triggers that influence whether organisations respond or do not respond to displacement crises. This will guide the selection of several case sites to examine how each of these dimensions play out in humanitarian shelter responses. In helping organisations understand how shelter responses might differ for displacement contexts that were labelled differently, our study seeks to advance the Humanitarian-Development-Climate Change Nexus thinking and approach in the context of displacement crises.
