Remitting for Resilience (R2)
Remitting for Resilience (R2) is a project that explores how the money and resources sent home by migrants, known as remittances, can strengthen the resilience of communities facing climate-related challenges in Africa.
About this project
Remitting for Resilience: Enhancing Food Security and Climate Adaptation Through Gender-Inclusive Migrant Remittances (R2) responds to calls to enhance adaptive capacities and resilience-building strategies for communities vulnerable to the effects of climate change, particularly its impacts on food security, livelihoods and migration in Africa. For communities in marginal environments already feeling the effects of climate change, adaptation is not optional — it is an urgent necessity.
With a focus on remittances, the R2 project brings an innovative interdisciplinary and multi-country research partnership of researchers from 12 universities and community organisations across Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the UK, and Canada to work on a critical development challenge, change the global conversation on migrant remittances, and generate concrete solutions for leveraging remittances to enhance food security at a time of increasing climate disruption.
Project aims
R2 examines how remittances can support food security, climate adaptation, and gender equality in marginal environments affected by climate change. The main aims of the project are to:
- Research and analyse the actual and potential role of migrant remittances in building resilience in environments characterised by challenging ecological, climatic, and socioeconomic conditions.
- Assess how migrant remittances can impact the food security of households in these environments by providing additional income to households for food purchase, investment in climate-resilient agriculture and infrastructure, and start-up capital for micro-enterprises.
- Demonstrate to trans-sectoral stakeholders that migrant remittances in cash and kind have untapped potential for enhancing the ability of populations to mitigate climate-related risks.
