CLIMATE-INDUCED INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT AND HUMAN SECURITY: A POLICY ANALYSIS OF PAKISTAN’S 2022 FLOOD CRISIS

Abstract

The Pakistan 2022 flood caused homelessness to over eight million people  exposing the vulnerability of the disaster management systems to weaknesses and multidimensional susceptibility of the communities to the disasters. This paper critically evaluates policy response by Pakistan to the Human security Framework, including economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community, and political, and has climate justice prism.    

The analysis, with the assistance of credible sources, such as the government reports, UN and NGO analysis, and the literature reviewed by scholars, demonstrates that even short-term interventions, such as cash transfers, emergency food supplies, and temporary shelters alleviated urgent misery, but there was very little success in long-term recovery, rights protection, and creation of resilience. It involved disconnected parts, fragmented implementation and segregation of the most vulnerable individuals particularly women, children and individuals with disabilities.    

The floods of the year 2010 provide some comparative answers on whether the policy failures were recurrent. This paper presents human security as a concept that is to be analyzed in a methodical manner in the policy and concerned with the location of the boundary between limitations of human capacity and gaps in international responsibility. The policy recommendations involve the legal framework systems of displaced persons, planning of human security, resilient infrastructure concerning climate, gender-focused interventions and practical advocacy of foreseeable and accessible loss-and damage financing.