- Loss and Damage Research Observatory
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Overview
OKUP is a grassroots migrant workers organization in Bangladesh established in 2004 by returnee migrant workers and their families. We hold the issues of migrant workers and communities at the heart of our organization and follow a survivor-led community approach in our interventions. We work to create agency, empowerment and enhance capacities of migrant workers, families and communities to claim rights by holding duty bearers accountable. We gather data and evidence to bring our voices and perspectives into the policy discourse. Our interventions address the challenges and vulnerabilities of migrant workers in the context of migration and climate change.
"Integrating ‘Rights-based Solutions’ for sustainable adaptation and resilience, based on the fundamental human rights principle of “Right to Stay, Right to Move” into policies and programs at all levels - local, national, and international aims to minimize and address loss and damage resulting from the interconnected challenges of climate change and human mobility."
2024-09-09 Social disruption (migration and displacement)
The climate-induced disasters in Bangladesh have become more frequent and intens...Read more
Category: Social disruption (migration and displacement)
Region: Asia
Country: Bangladesh
Village: Southeast Coastal district in the Sundarbans
Description: The climate-induced disasters in Bangladesh have become more frequent and intense in the last 15 years. The southwest coastal districts in the Sundarbans regions are much more prone to climate-induced disasters. The people in the region encounter multiple disasters every year and become victims of a partial or complete loss and damage to their assets, livelihoods, and wellbeing. The piecemeal adaptation approaches often fail and trap people in debt. In such a context when there is hardly any option to cope and survive, many people migrate to a new place within the country or abroad to find employment to support their families. The unethical and unfair recruitment practices and a lack of protection push those people into further exploitation, trafficked, and forced labour conditions at home or abroad and increase their vulnerabilities. The research aims to create evidence on the impacts of frequent and intensified disasters in the form of economic and non-economic loss and damage, its link to forced and unsafe migration, and the increased vulnerability and violations of fundamental rights of climate-induced migrants and their communities. The findings will contribute to shaping policy discourse on the importance of ‘rights-based approach: rights to stay, right to move’ to minimize and address loss and damage caused by climate change and mobility and build sustainable adaptation and resilience. The research intends to employ a mixed-method approach to collect quantitative data and capture the lived experiences of the affected people.
July 2024 Green and Low-Carbon Economy
The objective of the study was to explore how finance to cover the cost of loss and damage from climate change can See More
July 2024 Green and Low-Carbon Economy
The objective of the study was to explore how finance to cover the cost of loss and damage from climate change can See More
July 2024 Green and Low-Carbon Economy
The objective of the study was to explore how finance to cover the cost of loss and damage from climate change can See More
July 2024 Green and Low-Carbon Economy
The objective of the study was to explore how finance to cover the cost of loss and damage from climate change can See More
July 2024 Green and Low-Carbon Economy
The objective of the study was to explore how finance to cover the cost of loss and damage from climate change can See More
July 2024 Green and Low-Carbon Economy
The objective of the study was to explore how finance to cover the cost of loss and damage from climate change can See More
July 2024 Green and Low-Carbon Economy
The objective of the study was to explore how finance to cover the cost of loss and damage from climate change can See More
July 2024 Green and Low-Carbon Economy
The objective of the study was to explore how finance to cover the cost of loss and damage from climate change can See More
July 2024 Green and Low-Carbon Economy
The objective of the study was to explore how finance to cover the cost of loss and damage from climate change can See More
July 2024 Green and Low-Carbon Economy
The objective of the study was to explore how finance to cover the cost of loss and damage from climate change can See More
July 2024 Green and Low-Carbon Economy
The objective of the study was to explore how finance to cover the cost of loss and damage from climate change can See More
July 2024 Green and Low-Carbon Economy
The objective of the study was to explore how finance to cover the cost of loss and damage from climate change can See More
NGO Affairs Bureau |
2008-04-24
2018-01-01 - Present
Steering Group Member
2022-04-01 - Present
2007-09-01 - Present
2012-07-07 - Present
2016-01-07 - Present
2017-01-08 - Present
2016-03-04 - Present
2018-01-01
OKUP follows a ‘Human Rights-Based Approach’ to address challenges caused by climate-induced migration. We work to enhance transformative capacity and skills, particularly of youths and women for sustainable adaptation and resilience, uphold human rights and justice for the survivors of unsafe migration, trafficking and forced labour, and carry out evidence-based advocacy.
2004-01-01
We work to promote informed migration by choice, safeguard rights and justice of survivor migrants, uphold health and welling, and sustainable social and economic reintegration of the vulnerable returnee migrants. We also work to build self-sustaining migrant communities by enhancing agency, unity and empowerment.
2023-11-29 Shakirul Islam
The lived experiences and testimonies of both internal and international returnee migrant workers and their families demonstrates that migration was never a first choice for the people in the Sundarbans region.
2023-01-04 Rights Lab, University of Nottingham
The Sundarbans region of Bangladesh and India face several climatic risk factors, and for communities in the area they can be compounded by social, economic, and political struggles. Primary data on the ‘human trafficking-environmental degradation-climate change nexus’ for decision-making has been lacking with an emphasis on the use of proxy data. Being able to fill gaps with evidence from the communities being directly affected by such issues is important to be able to develop support mechanisms that are situation-specific, useful, and easy to access, and which reduce the vulnerabilities of communities and thus their risk of exploitation.
2023-09-01 Secours Catholique Caritas France (SCCF)
Secours Catholique - Caritas France partnered with Caritas Senegal, Equipo de Reflexión, Investigación y Comunicación (ERIC) and Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Pro- gram (OKUP) to study the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation on the daily lives and mobility of people living in affected areas in Bangladesh, Honduras and Senegal. By cross-analysing these three cases, this report aims to make policy recommendations based on the real experiences of people who have suffered from the effects of climate change and environmental degradation.
2021-09-01 Nicole Clot, Esther Marthaler, Shakirul Islam
To better understand migration patterns and their impacts on local people’s livelihoods, Helvetas and the Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Program (OKUP) teamed up to conduct action research in two disaster-prone districts, Khulna and Bagerhat, in the southwest coastal belt of Bangladesh. Consisting of a primary survey in 2018 of 480 households followed by a secondary survey in 2020, this research is supplemented by five in-depth case studies that provide insights into the resulting individual struggles of women and men.
Photo Credit: - OKUP
Photo Credit: - OKUP
Photo Credit: - OKUP