1.4 Forced migration, Joint sesion with the World Bank - Discussant Sam Gundry and audience Q&A
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 04/06/2022

Armed conflict and the escalating threat of climate change are driving forced displacement to unprecedented levels. Addressing the need to strengthen the evidence base around forced displacement, Isabel Ruiz from the University of Oxford will present findings from Burundi on how exposure to violence affects migrants’ trust, reconciliation, and community engagement; Sophie Scharlin-Pettee from Oxford’s Poverty & Human Development Initiative will share results from an innovative multidimensional poverty index examining the links between poverty, displacement status, and gender across five Sub-Saharan African countries; and Eliana Rubiano-Matulevich from the World Bank will explore evidence from Somalia revealing that for IDP households, the least poverty risk is associated with having more female earners, while more male earners is associated with the least poverty risk for non-IDP households. Sam Gundry from the International Organization for Migration will join researchers in discussing how to mobilize evidence into the development of more sustainable and durable policy responses to forced displacement.

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