RPC Migrating out of Poverty

Migrating out of Poverty is a seven-year research programme consortium (RPC) funded by the UK’s Department for International Development. It focuses on the relationship between internal and regional migration and poverty and is located in six regions across Asia, Africa and Europe. The RPC is co-ordinated by the University of Sussex.

Our main goal

The goal of the Migrating out of Poverty RPC is to maximise the poverty reducing and developmental impacts of migration and minimise the costs and risks of migration for poor people.

Although migration does not necessarily lead to such positive outcomes, the Migrating out of Poverty RPC works to produce research which sheds light on the circumstances in which migration can most effectively reduce poverty.

Peasant men sit talking, Somaliland. Credit: Stuart Freedman/Panos

Migrating out of Poverty publishes new briefing and working paper reviewing Migration in National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs)

Migrating out of Poverty’s review of the discussion of migration in National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) finds that nearly one third of NAPAs do not mention migration or related issues in their adaptation projects.

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Africa research explores the complex influence of changes in climate on migration

Governments need to take multiple factors into account if they are to plan effectively for population displacement as a result of drought, new research from the University of Sussex reveals.

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