OBJECTIVE 2 - MINIMIZE ADVERSE DRIVERS
Minimize the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their country of origin
The concept of “drivers of migration” is dynamic, reflecting a complex interaction of personal, social, structural, environmental, and circumstantial factors.
Drivers influence the decision to migrate, whether the migration is internal or international, regular or irregular, temporary or permanent. Drivers usually operate along a spectrum between voluntary and involuntary movement.
However, adverse drivers refer to those shaped by negative impacts, including responding to sudden shocks, adapting to slow onset pressures, or coping with chronic hardships, such as those associated with underdevelopment, poverty, food insecurity, poor governance, disasters, climate change, environmental degradation, cultural factors, inequalities, persecution, human rights violations, armed conflicts, or violence.
This is why this objective has a diversity of responses including investing in sustainable development at the local and national levels in all regions. It also emphasizes climate resilience strategies and natural disaster preparedness.
Economic, social, and environmental development will help people lead peaceful, productive and sustainable lives and to fulfil their personal aspirations, while ensuring that desperation and deteriorating environments do not compel them to seek a livelihood elsewhere through irregular migration.
Which SDG targets are connected to this objetive?
ALL 17 SDGs are connected to this GCM objective
How is each target measured concretely?
Indicators demonstrate the ways we can measure our advancement towards the SDGs with real data. Click HERE to see the indicators for this GCM objective.