Bridging the Governance Gap: Protecting the Education Rights of ... - ReliefWeb
Bridging the Governance Gap: Protecting the Education Rights of Climate Displaced Persons in South and Southeast Asia, Policy Brief No. 40, 2023 - World | ReliefWeb
Ying-Syuan (Elaine) Huang, Philip Vaughter, and Jonghwi Park
Highlights
South Asia is particularly vulnerable to natural disasters, with millions of displacements recorded every year. Yet issues of climateinduced displacement and migration remain underrepresented in policy discourse, advocacy, and research. As a result, students in disaster-prone areas are often kept out of school during and after disasters.
Recommendations:
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Protect the rights of climate displaced persons through an intersectoral and integrated approach to education, disaster management, and climate change adaptation policies.
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Support research and policy development, including by scaling up existing safe-school initiatives to enhance local adaptive capacity.
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Prioritise marginalised learners and educational support that meets the physical and psychological needs of climate displaced persons, such as basic study materials, counseling support, and multilingual learning toolkits.
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