Stakeholders at a meeting organised by the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adaption Land Use (WASCAL) are deliberating on the effective implementation of a migration governance framework for Ghana.
The migration governance framework would hopefully be upscaled to other African countries to help integrate migration and climate changes into issues MIGRAWARE project close-out brought together participants from academia, scientists, policy makers and the media to discuss the way forward after the project officially ends in December 2024.
The MIGRAWARE project aims at using scientific -technological framework to assess rural-urban and cross border migration across West Africa and suggest governance policies that could help manage migration needs, improve local livelihoods and sustain human-environmental interactions.
The project focused on environmentally influenced migration.
Prof. Benjamin Kofi Nyarko from the University of Cape Coast, giving the project overview urged district assemblies to set up environmental desk to inform citizens on environmental and climate influenced migration within the district.
Dr Safi Sanfo, Scientific Coordinator at WASCAL who represented the Executive Director of WASCAL, said migration was not just about movement but about people.
She said the MIGRAWARE project had helped to improve cross-border knowledge with regards to environmentally influenced migration.
Dr Justice Nan Inkoom from the Martin Luther University (MLU) Germany said the MIGRAWARE project explored literature based analysis of the relations between socio-economic and environmental factors of migration.
“MIGRAWARE proposed and tested a migration governance framework with focus on individual migrants and how national policies shaped their decision, mostly informed by socio-economic and environmental factors.”
