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DESCRIPTION:The Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair and the 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Centre for\nI
 nternational Sustainable Development Law are pleased to invite you\nto a B
 rown Bag Lunch Seminar with Rathana peou van den\nHeuvel.\nABSTRACT\nThe t
 opic of climate-induced displacement appeared quite\nrecently in the inter
 national scientific research as in the media.\nAlthough very new\, it is u
 sually pointed as very urgent.\nIf the projections of the UN come true\, t
 he city of Dhaka in\nBangladesh will be the fourth largest megacity in the
  world by\n2025. It would even be the fastest growing city\, with one of t
 he\nhighest slum prevalence. Therefore\, many reports highlight the\nrisks
  of such a rapid growth and the vulnerability of the slum\ndwellers\, in t
 he international press as well as in the local press.\nIn the space of a f
 ew years\, Dhaka has become the symbol of the\nurban growth linked to clim
 ate change and other risks.\nAt another level several predictions have bee
 n made with regards\nto the number of people displaced for climatic reason
 s. In 1995\,\nNorman Myers argued that sea-level rise together with increa
 se of\ninland floods (from melting Himalayan glaciers) would result in 15
 \nmillion of environmentally displaced for Bangladesh. The latter\nwould r
 eview his estimate in 2001 this time stating that the number\nof people at
  risk in Bangladesh by 2050 could amount to 26\nmillions. However\, as hig
 hlighted in the recent report\nAssessing the Evidence: Environment\, Clima
 te Change and\nMigration in Bangladesh by IOM\; 'Some existing-\nand widel
 y cited - figures vary by as much as a factor of 40(...)\nand in reality n
 one of them have a sound basis in empirical\ndata'.\nThe Government of Ban
 gladesh has been gradually\, over the last\ndecade\, active in developing 
 the capacities of the country toward\nClimate Change. However\, climate in
 duced migrants are not yet\nviewed as part of a specific category with par
 ticular needs in\nregards to the local/national legal frameworks.\nLack of
  empirical data\, evidence based policy recommendations\nimpact the way cl
 imate induced migration is addressed currently in\nBangladesh. However the
  main challenge while reflecting on this\nissue lies on the low understand
 ing of the dynamic between\nenvironment and social - economical factors an
 d on what could be\nthe climate induced migration patterns in a context of
  high\nexposure to disaster\, environmental degradation and poverty\n(offi
 cially 50 million people still live in poverty).  Based\non literature rev
 iew\, one empirical research completed and two-\nongoing research projects
 \, the proposed presentation aims at:\n\nPresenting a Categorization of Cl
 imate Induced Migrant in\nBangladesh\nReplacing the Internal Migration in 
 Bangladesh within the\nphenomenon of international labor migration\nFramin
 g remittance mechanisms as an Climate Change Adaptation\nStrategy\nAnalyzi
 ng Interventions and how Climate Induced Migrant are\nincluded into povert
 y alleviation programs\nEvaluating the impacts of Micro- Finance Instituti
 ons on the\nresilience and capacity of Adaptation of the Climate Induced\n
 Migrant\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nDr. Rathana peou van den Heuvel is an Associ
 ate Professor at the\nUniversity of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) and a m
 ember of the\nULAB Academic Council.  She is also the Deputy Director of t
 he\nInstitute for Sustainable Development (ISD) where she leads\nresearch 
 programmes on different issues related to human\ntrafficking and sex worke
 rs in Bangladesh\, issues related to\nclimate induced migration\, impacts 
 of active learning\, and\ncharacteristics of social business.  She is also
  currently an\nIndependent Assessment Panel (IAP) member for SHIREE (funde
 d by\nDFID)\, responsible for screening and assessing applications by NGOs
 \nto fund and for recommending successful proposals.\nPrior to joining ULA
 B-ISD in 2009\, Rathana worked as an\ninternational consultant and humanit
 arian workers in Sudan\, Kenya\,\nPakistan and Bangladesh.  She spent over
  two years in Darfur\nas an education\, and evaluation manager building pr
 ogramme\nframework of activities and matrix of impact monitoring.\nShe has
  worked with and consulted for agencies such as DFID\,\nUSAID\, ECHO\, DIP
 ECHO\, AFD\, EU and different INGOs and NGOs. She\nalso ran different trai
 ning programmes related to report and\ndocumentation skills and strategic 
 position papers.\nShe holds a PhD in Political Science majoring in Philoso
 phy and\na minor in Arabic and a Masters degree in Political Science. Dr.
 \nRathana's research interests lies in the '4 inviolate principles':\nfood
  security\, water security\, energy security and social 'health'\nsecurity
 . These principles are dynamic in different context from\nemergency situat
 ion to development.\n \n
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LOCATION:Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Climate-induced Migration\, Sustainable Livelihoods and Poverty Red
 uction Intervention and Policy in Bangladesh
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