Event description:

The workshop is organized by the Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Environmental Change and Migration of the Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) of the World Bank. In collaboration with the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, the International Organization for Migration, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Platform for Disaster Displacement. The workshop included representatives from relevant ministries of Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama as well as from international organizations and civil society organizations. The workshop was facilitated by Elena Correa (former World Bank), Elizabeth Ferris (Vice Chair of the TWG) and others.