Strengthening Adaptation through Migration Department of Labor & Employment Action Framework

Cynthia R. Cruz Executive Director, Institute for Labor Studies

Outcome

Reduced harms from climate-induced migration as it concerns incomes and livelihoods

Key Points
Climate Risk Presumed Individual Migration Response Bias Some Institutional Responses Reactionary Aid Reconstruction Resource Mobilization Supports DOLE Action Response Catastrophic risks Derive from events of Can be permanent enormous consequence but of very low probability Experienced risks Derive from events that happen repeatedly and May be permanent provide a meaningful kind Can be temporary of pattern recognition

Anticipatory Disaster Preparedness Risk Reduction Insurance Settlement Planning Substitutionary Capacity Building Research Green Initiative Jobs Adjustment Measures Program Overseas Employment Support

Slow-acting risks Derive from events that are a result of May be permanent unsustainable production Can be temporary practice and consumption Can be nil use

Catastrophic risks
Mt. Volcano Eruption, 1814 Mt Pinatubo Eruption, 1991

Experienced risks
Typhoon Reming, 2006 Typhoon Ondoy, 2009

Slow-acting risks
Tuna fishing ban, 2009 Log ban, Feb 2011

DOLE Action Framework

Catastrophic Risk To support relief efforts Experienced Risk Slow-Acting Risk To provide early employment To reinforce recovery supports mobility centric supports To establish contingency & quick response planning supports Adjustment Measures Program (1) Overseas Employment Facilitation Services (2) Green Jobs Initiative (3)

Resource Mobilization Support

Adjustment Measures Program (1) Emergency Employment Restoration of Livelihood

Enhancement of Livelihood

Overseas Employment (OE)Services (2)

OE Facilitation Worker Assistance & Govt. Placement Licensing & Worker Protection Services Adjudication Services

Regional Program Implementation

POLO

Verification Fees Program

Repatriation

Reintegration

Welfare Program

Replacement Care

Migrant Friendliness Framework

Green Jobs Initiative (3)

Capacity Building Dialogue Mechanisms Demonstration Projects Green Jobs Agenda

Research

Green Jobs Analytics

Operational challenges
Catastrophic Uncertainty surrounding the probability of disasters Risks Climate science imprecise & extraordinarily complex Short-term nature of budget & political cycles Experienced Risks Attachment factors Culture of katatagang loob Relocation issues Political jurisdiction Slow-acting Risks The mind is not green Virgin territory Conceptual deficit Readiness

Key message
In designing solutions it is important to respect the shape and the size of the risk.

Climate cognizant

Climate resilient

Climate smart