CLIMATE & MOBILITY IN SURINAME
This project is part of the Greater Caribbean Climate Mobility Initiative (GCCMI), a partnership of the Global Centre for Climate Mobility (GCCM), the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), the World Bank, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). It aims to inform strategies for enabling people-positive adaptation journeys by strengthening adaptive capacities, supporting mobility and addressing climate-forced displacement in the region.
By collecting data in frontline communities affected by climate-related events, the findings from this field research complement the results of the Greater Caribbean Climate Mobility Model, which projects climate- induced movements up until 2050. Samuel Hall engaged with the modelling efforts during the simultaneous research phases, and our Suriname country team was the number one best performer out of six countries.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Indigenous populations in the Americas are an example of a group that has faced important obstacles to their humane and orderly migration. As a consequence of long historical processes of colonization, decolonization and the creation of new independent States, many of the territories where indigenous people live are located across the bordering regions of more than one country. Given their ancestral connections with these lands, free movement is crucial for their self-identification as indigenous peoples, their self-determination, and their cultural survival as distinct peoples across the world. However, the needs of indigenous peoples have not always been carefully considered in regional and national migration frameworks, limiting their free movement through ancestral and customary territories, and threatening the sustainability of their livelihoods, their lifestyles and their family unities. In the Caribbean, for example, countries, where indigenous populations are present, have specific government bodies for their protection
PEOPLE WITH DIVERSE SOGIESC
Around the world, including the Caribbean, migrants with diverse SOGIESC are faced with diverse needs and risks, some of which are similar to those of other groups of migrants, and some of which are specific to their experiences as persons with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities or expressions, or sex characteristics. IOM, in collaboration with UNHCR, has identified the following as the most common needs that persons from these populations have throughout their migration journeys: participation and outreach, individual documentation, protection from sexual and gender-based violence, other issues of safety and security, access to justice, material assistance, shelter and sanitation, education, livelihoods, and health (IOM and UNCHR, 2021).
NEEDS ASSESSMENTS ON MIGRATION GOVERNANCE
The series of Migration Governance Needs Assessments address the challenges and opportunities for guaranteeing that migration to, from and within the region occurs through well–managed migration policies and mechanisms. These reports have been contextualized to each country’s particular situation, and provides key information to support the Government in understanding the current migration governance systems. The reports highlight specific identified needs to support informed decision-making to strengthen migration governance that will benefit both the State and migrants.
Simon Global Consultancy has worked alongside the International Organization for Migration for this series of research publications in Aruba, Belize, Curaçao, Guyana, Sint Maarten and Suriname.
