PATHWAYS: Complex Pathways of Climate Mobility for Children and Youth in Ethiopia

PATHWAYS focuses on how children and youth cope with climate stressors in Ethiopia, where extreme climate events and slow onset changes continuously aggravate existing socio-economic conditions.

Through collaborative research, we explore how young people perceive their own vulnerability, available protection mechanisms, and resulting mobility outcomes. This will advance scholarly understanding and help policymakers address adaptation and social protection frameworks related to climate change in the future.

The project is funded by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) and Denmark’s Consultative Research Committee for Development Research (FFU), and it runs from June 1st, 2023, to May 31st, 2027.

Learn more at https://www.diis.dk/en/projects/pathways-complex-pathways-of-climate-mobility-children-and-youth-in-ethiopia

PATHWAYS is a multidisciplinary endeavour conducted jointly by researchers based at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Addis Ababa University (AAU), and the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA). Additional expertise is drawn in from Lund University, Sweden and Tufts University, USA, as well as from Save the Children. Ninna Nyberg Sørensen (DIIS) and Tekalign Ayalew Mengiste (AAU) jointly coordinate the project.