Ms. Wolde’s migration research under the NEWAVE project is located at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. It is cross-disciplinary and uses qualitative and quantitative data to identify the role of extreme hydrological events on human migration with the aim to understand possible future migration patterns in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and the broader East and Eastern Africa region.
Ethiopia became a partner country to the B-EPICC project in 2022. In the migration portfolio, the project seeks to identify how climate change interacts with several factors including land and forest cover, as well as agriculture, and further with migration and conflict potential. Ms. Wolde has contributed to the migration day at the B-EPICC workshop in Addis Ababa in May and is a co-author of the major risk report on climate-conflict-migration linkages which is currently being developed.
During her stay, Ms. Wolde intends to exchange with qualitative and quantitative migration researchers at PIK and share her expertise on climate impacts in East Africa across the institute. She has, inter alia, been invited to present her research in PIK’s working group on Adaptation in Agricultural Systems. Ms. Wolde’s main goal is to improve her skills and knowledge of models used at PIK. Her recent publication investigates the causal links between environmental change and underlying non-environmental change drivers of migration and internal displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa.
If you are interested to get in touch with Ms. Wolde, feel free to contact her at sinafekeshgirma.wolde@polimi.it
