By using this knowledge to inform advocacy, RACPA's goal is to promote more responsive policies that enhance the climate resilience of these vulnerable communities.
Trapped by Choice or Circumstance?
Held by Home Ties
Family ties are the primary reason why people continue to live and stay in their communities.
Livelihoods and Gender
Livelihood is another key reason for people to stay amid climate risk and vulnerability, but its importance differs for men and women.
Education and Mobility
The communities invest in the education of the young, possibly seeing it as a resilience-building measure, including in terms of mobility.
Small Island, Shrinking Options
Small islands like Nocnocan offer residents fewer options to diversify their livelihood and sources of income than coastal communities, making leaving more attractive.
Gaps in Climate and Mobility Policy
Government-led disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation (DRR CCA) efforts in the two countries are at varying levels of advancement, and there is room to better address the climate change-human (im)mobility nexus in both.
