IOM/OECS Press Conference

Media Invitation

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Organisation for Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) invites you to our regional press conference on Human Mobility and Climate Change Data in the Eastern Caribbean.

The conference forms part of activities under the project Regional Dialogue to Address Human Mobility and Climate Change Adaptation funded by the Federal Republic of Germany. 

Over the past months activities have engaged stakeholders from Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines. This conference is an opportunity to discuss the project achievements to date as we move towards hosting a high-level regional conference later this year.  

Conference proceedings will be recorded and shared with all participating media. 

 

Press Conference Details

WHEN: Friday, 26 March 2021

TIME: 9:30 am  (AST)

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

 

To the Editor,

With support from the Federal Republic of Germany, IOM Dominica in collaboration with the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), publicly launched a 15-month project to address human mobility and climate change adaptation in the Eastern Caribbean in September 2020.   The Opening Ceremony was carried live and the recording is available here (start time 3:43).  

The main aim of the project is to enhance the governance of human mobility related to environmental change in the Eastern Caribbean through improved evidence and regional cooperation.  To achieve this objective, IOM Dominica has been working directly with the OECS, and other local and regional stakeholders to build a regional dialogue series in the Eastern Caribbean States that will enhance governments’ capacities to collect, analyse and utilise data on human mobility caused by climate change.  Six independent member states of the OECS have been engaged directly in this venture, namely: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.   

We are currently approaching a milestone in the project, the completion of six National Consultations on Human Mobility & Climate Change Data, which have brought together key government stakeholders in each of the six participating member states, to review the unique national contexts regarding data on human mobility due to environmental factors and climate change; heighten participants’ awareness of the reasons for prioritizing such data; increase their knowledge of national data regarding human mobility, climate change and security, and the sectors involved; contribute to the development of national guidelines on data governance and management and estimate the resources and capacities needed for effective data collection and management

 

2020-09-10 (NC.0043) IOM_OECS Regional Mobility Project Infosheet v3.pdf

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Maxine Alleyne-Espirit

Communications Assistant, International Organization for Migration (Dominica)

OECS Communications Unit

Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

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The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is an International Organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance among independent and non-independent countries in the Eastern Caribbean. The OECS came into being on June 18th 1981, when seven Eastern Caribbean countries signed a treaty agreeing to cooperate with each other while promoting unity and solidarity among its Members. The Treaty became known as the Treaty of Basseterre, so named in honour of the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis where it was signed. The OECS today, currently has eleven members, spread across the Eastern Caribbean comprising Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Martinique and Guadeloupe. 

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