At COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 the Global Mayors Action Agenda on Climate and Migration was launched. Our programme ‘Human Rights and Gender Equality in Climate and Disaster Displacement’, carried out with financial support from the Swedish Institute, is designed to contribute directly to this. It will be done by strengthening the capacity of municipal authorities in multiple cities in Africa (Free Town, Kampala and Nairobi) when it comes to how they address climate-related displacement into and within their municipalities.
Recently, we arranged a large kick-off event for the programme participants (public sector professionals working on local and county government issues in Sierra Leone, Uganda and Kenya, with a mandate to develop policies on for example housing, migration and crisis preparedness).
An introduction was held by Prof. Mo Hamza and Dr Matthew Scott to human mobility in the context of disasters and climate change.
Furthermore, the participants got to work together to start developing action plans for how they will build profiles of displacement issues from the perspective of local authorities. The profiles will be developed over the course of seven modules and will be presented at a final event in one of the three participating countries in August 2023.
A selection of photos from the event:
Teaching and coordinating staff
The programme is a collaboration between the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) (affiliated with the Law Faculty at Lund University). It is delivered with the support of Lund University Commissioned Education (LUCE), the department at the university focusing on professional development and capacity building programmes.