At the Regional Security Summit held in Abudja in 2015, climate change was highlighed as one of the root causes for the Boko Haram insurgency that is devastating the Lake Chad Basin and has displaced over 2 million people since its start in 2014.
There is a general knowledge gap in terms of recent data linking migration and climate change in the Region, and a simultaneous increase in interest in such data.
In line with the recommendations of the joint IOM, UNEP, OCHA, UNU-EHS, CILSS study of 2011 to conduct field assessments in identified hotspots using a livelihood approach, IOM proposes a 2 fold research project examining the livelihoods affected by climate change in the Lake Chad Region, the type of impact climate change is having on these livelihoods, and a profiling exercise of those people whose chosen coping mechanism is migration.