This series seeks to shed light on the interconnected issues of climate change and migration, and contribute to a growing body of policy work to enable civil society and governments to navigate these challenges and prevent a human crisis across the continent: The World Bank has estimated that climate change could cause more than 86 million people to migrate within Africa by 2050 alone.
To kick off the series, we engaged with experts from around the continent working on climate change and migration on a daily basis. Activists, policy makers, academics and consultants spoke to us about the issues closest to their hearts. We then invited African scholars and researchers to participate in a policy briefing research competition focused on climate change and migration in Africa to propose new ways in which civil society, national, regional or international actors could respond to and collaborate on these interconnected challenges. Over 80 submissions were received, before being narrowed down to nine final papers. All series outputs are available below, and were published in June 2020.
