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1 Request for Proposals Synthesizing Evidence to Understand if Remittances Reach the Poorest; Its Impact on Resilience of the Poorest; and Lessons Learned in the Context of Climate Change 1. Background The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. It has set two main goals for the world to achieve by 2030: (i) End extreme poverty by decreasing the percentage of people living on less than $1.90 a day to no more than 3%; and (ii) Promote shared prosperity by fostering the income growth of the bottom 40% for every country. It recognizes that climate change represents a significant obstacle to the sustained eradication of poverty. On the other hand, increased migration has enormous implications for growth and poverty alleviation. Specifically, remittances generally reduce the level and severity of poverty and contribute to economic development and growth. Understanding the links between climate change, remittances and poverty in the context of development is of interest. Climate change poses one of the greatest threats to human communities, ecosystems, and development goals. Vulnerability to climate risks, is often highest in the world s poorest communities. The potential loss of ecosystem services threatens the livelihoods of many marginal populations, and a lack of resources in poorer communities exacerbates sensitivity and severely limits adaptive capacity. As such, remittances could provide a safety net through consumption smoothing to migrant households as a coping mechanism during climate induced events and disasters. It can also build resilience through ex-ante preparedness and ex-post recovery. The World Bank officially recorded remittances to developing countries amounted to $430 billion in 2015, and is projected to rise to about 4 percent per year, reaching $459 billion in 2016 and rising to $479 billion in Global remittance flows, including those to high-income countries, amounted to $581.6 billion in 2015, and is expected to accelerate by 4.1 percent, reaching an estimated $610 billion in 2016 and rising to $636 billion in 2017 (World Bank 2016). Additionally, remittances sent home by migrants to developing countries are equivalent to more than three times the size of official development assistance. Yet, in the context of environmental change, the flow of economic and social remittances, directly or indirectly, to the poorest has not been fully documented. In this context, a study will be undertaken to better understand the extent to which the poorest are beneficiaries of remittances and its contribution to resilience in the context of climate change. The study will synthesize existing evidence with an objective to understand how internal and international remittances - both economic and social - affect the resilience of poor people in the context of climate change. It will also draw on good practices and provide recommendations on how benefits of remittances can be maximized and negative impacts mitigated, which will be informed through a deeper dive at institutional frameworks and policies within which remittances take place. This work will be critical in the placement of remittances within the larger 1
2 policy and planning frameworks in the changing face of climate change and the larger development context. 2. Research Objective The effects of climate change, both slow onset (e.g. drought) and extremes (e.g. floods, tropical storms) already lead people to leave their communities and will contribute to more mobility in the future, either as anticipatory migration, as displacement, or relocation (Black et al. 2011; Foresight 2011; IPCC 2011). In this context, both internal and international remittances, in the form of economic and social transfers may increase in importance. Economic remittance are more tangible resources and easy to measure, often direct financial transfers through banks and other institutions. Besides, economic remittances can also be in the form of material goods when diaspora send goods to help people with lost clothing, furniture, mattresses, etc., and often during an aftermath of a natural disaster. Meanwhile social remittances are intangible assets and are classified into four categories- norms, practices, identity and social capital (Levitt 2011), usually transferred as ideas, knowledge and information from the migrants to the country of origin for ex-ante preparedness or ex-post response to an event. Therefore, linking both economic and social dimension is important to fully understand the impact of remittances. Increase in the importance of remittances can in part be attributed to the expected surges in mobility that render more connections between sending and receiving areas. On the other hand, as the Foresight report (2011) highlighted, climate change will lead to entrapment (involuntary) or immobility (voluntary) of millions of people unable or unwilling to move despite being at risk, for which remittances may be an important means of building resilience. Simultaneously, the impact of climate change and weather shocks can reduce options for migration, for example in small island countries, therefore reducing income support through remittances. In addition, it can also break channels of inflow of remittances along with other assistance, therefore significantly increasing the risk of and vulnerability of the trapped population (Foresight 2011). Research and data on remittances has increased considerably, for instance through the World Bank, and their potential has been acknowledged in the Sustainable Development Goals. There is a general consensus on the impact of remittances on poverty reduction (Adams 2011; Imai et al 2012; Ratha 2013; Sidique et. al 2014). A literature review covering 50 empirical studies on the developing world that are based on household survey data reported international remittances generally have a positive impact on poverty (Adams 2011). A cross-country study of 71 developing countries found a 10% increase in per capita official international remittances will lead to a 3.5% decline in the share of people living in poverty (Adams 2005). Another study on 10 Latin American and Caribbean countries found one percentage point increase in the remittances to GDP ratio is estimated to lead to reductions in poverty that vary between 0.08 percent for poorer countries to 1.12 percent for richer countries, with an average estimated reduction of 0.37 percent (Acosta, 2007). Country level studies on Ethiopia (Beyene 2014), Ghana (Adams 2013) and Nepal (Acharya 2012; World Bank 2006) also support the positive correlation between 2
3 remittance and poverty reduction. However, the existing literature is less conclusive on the impact of remittance on inequality (Ratha 2013; Acharya 2012; Anyanwu 2011). Some empirical research found that remittance do reduce income disparities (Zhu & Luo 2010), while others found an increase in inequality (Acharya 2012; Adams et. al 1991 and 2008), or no change (Beyene 2014), or an inverse U-shaped pattern (Docquier 2006). However, literature specifically on impact of remittance on poverty and inequality in context of acute and slow onset environmental change is inadequate to make judgments as to the benefits or costs for poor people. The objective of this study is to: First, synthesize existing evidence to understand to what extent economic and social remittances, on both international and internal levels, reach the poorest among the entrapped population; Second, distill and comment how these remittances affect the resilience of the poor, including those who move as well as those who are voluntarily immobile or entrapped. Third, distill good practices, lessons and give recommendations on how benefits of remittances can be maximized and negative impacts mitigated in the context of the poorest and entrapped. 3. Research Context Climate change already affects livelihoods across the globe and will increasingly do so (IPCC 2014). Facing significantly changing circumstances, some affected people will succeed in adapting either locally or through migration, while others will become entrapped (involuntarily) or remain immobile (voluntarily) in at-risk areas (Black et al. 2011; Foresight 2011). According to the IPCC (2014), adaptation denotes the the adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities. The adaptive capacity of affected populations depends on the availability of assets, resources, policies and organizational capacity (Smit and Wandel 2006). Migration is widely used as disaster risk reduction, risk management and adaptation strategies as well as a mechanism for coping with and recovering from acute and slow onset hazards strategies (IPCC 2014) When circumstances permit and when managed carefully, it bears the potential to effectively reduce risks, amongst other things through income diversification and remittances (ibid.). In the discussion of climate change, migration thus has increasingly come to be considered a viable adaptation option for certain settings (McLeman and Hunter 2010; McLeman and Smit 2006), not least because of remittances (IPCC 2014). The World Bank defines global poverty as people living on $1.90 or less a day, amounting to approximately 9.6 percent or 700 million of the world s population in with the highest share of the poor in Sub-Saharan Africa. There is a declining trend in global poverty, with 200 million fewer people living in extreme poverty than in 2012 (World Bank 2015/16). The profile of the global poor shows they are predominantly rural, young, poorly educated, mostly employed in the agricultural sector, and living in larger households with more children. 3
4 Although a substantial share of about 75 percent of the global remittances flow to developing countries, there are contradictory evidences if remittances are in fact reaching the poorest population living below $1.90 per day, directly or indirectly. On one hand, studies find that remittances benefit the non-poor more than the poor (Shock Wave 2016), and may affect nonrecipient households adversely (Nilsson 2005). These findings are further supported by the fact that most poor or vulnerable households lack the initial capital needed to migrate, hence they face higher barriers to migrate than the non-poor (World Bank, 2011; Stark et al., 1988). Additionally, higher spending and higher demand of goods and services can also increase the prices in local domestic market- indirectly and negatively affecting the poor non-recipient households, which was the case in Cape Verde (Gubert et. al 2010). On the other hand, there are also positive evidences of spillover and multiplier effects of remittances on the poorest nonrecipient households- more so indirectly. Increased demand and consumption of recipient households can have a multiplier effect by increasing local and domestic labor demand, services and goods, and hence increasing the income of non-recipient households (Adelman et al., 1988; Durand et al., 1996a; Taylor et al., 1996) Increased migration can lead to an increase in remittance transfers, and subsequently increasing household s resilience, especially following extreme events (Ratha 2009; Attzs, 2008). There is an increasing evidence base that remittances received by households, have been an instrumental coping mechanism through consumption smoothing-effect and as an insurance, particularly following extreme events, and even slow onsets (like drought and flood) (Combes and Ebeke 2011; Gubert 2007; Yang and Choi 2006; World Bank 2006 ; Haliday 2006; Quartey and Blankson 2004). Yang and Choi (2006) show for the Philippines that remittances help to compensate for nearly 65 percent of the loss in income due to rainfall shocks. In Yemen, remittances had stronger impact on poverty and malnutrition in districts with unfavorable climate, while the impact of remittances on school enrollment is found to be stronger in areas with better climate. The results suggesting that remittances are used more in meeting basic needs first in districts with least favorable climate (Wodon et. al 2014). Remittances have also contributed to ex-ante preparedness of households for rapid-onset disasters in Ghana and Burkina Faso, with higher percent of remittance receiving households having a concrete house and electricity versus comparable to households that do not receive remittances (Ratha 2009). In Nepal, remittance receiving households in Jhapa and Kathmandu allocated 22 percent and 18 percent of remittance income received in last 12 months for construction practices, and the intent to build a new home for non-remittance receiving households was significantly lower by 17 percent compared to remittance receiving households (NRRC 2014). Therefore, existing evidence does support that remittances contribute to both ex-post recovery and ex-ante preparedness and hence, reducing risks and enhancing household s resilience more broadly. Therefore, there is existing evidence that remittances can directly or indirectly enhance resilience of the poor in many ways. First, remittances build resilience of poor recipient households directly, contributing to both ex-ante preparedness and ex-post recovery. Recipient households invest on concrete houses and electricity to better prepare themselves against extreme events. Remittances contribute towards ex-post recovery mainly through consumption smoothing effect and as an additional support income during climate induced events, primarily 4
5 in meeting basic needs like food, clothing etc. It also acts as an insurance or additional support income, especially if the household s livelihood is dependent on an ecosystem that is affected by climate change (flood, drought). Non-recipient households tend to benefit indirectly through a trickle-down effect due to economic behavior of recipient households. Investments, demand for goods, and services can generate local income and labor demand for the poorest non-recipient households (e.g. building of housing; development of enterprises). Therefore, there is some evidence of both spillover and income multiplier effect of remittances on non-recipient households. Migrant networks can play an important role in fostering adaptive capacities for both those moving and staying. People moving away from their communities tend to stay connected with their communities when possible, either on a personal level or through collectively organized channels. Their networks can be financial, socio-cultural (ideas, norms) and/or political nature (Adger, Kelly and Nguyen 2012); effective networks tend to adapt to external and internal changes. Unsurprisingly, diaspora engagement is often welcomed by both receiving and sending areas (Schüttler 2008). Remittances are seen as a signal of continuing attachment and potential disposition to return; as complements to official development financing; and as a source of foreign exchange and input into development efforts. Remittances tend to be of individual nature, while a small portion is also sent as pooled funds through hometown associations (e.g. collective donations, investments and savings). A recent literature review found that remittances from both displaced persons and migrants tend to be sent for altruistic, self-interest and insurance reasons (Vargas-Silva 2016). Social networks usually exert considerable pressure on those moving or displaced to send money (except where the diaspora opposes the home-country political regime). Therefore, as Warner (2010b) shows, people on the move perceive networks as beneficial on the one hand (information, livelihoods or entitlements), and costly on the other hand (due to obligations to help others, sanctions against detrimental behavior). Participation and commitment to networks are a function of cost-benefit-calculus and norms surrounding these interactions. Since diaspora remittances are not individual transfers, they can impact the well-being of the society as a whole, including the poorest quintiles. There is a growing interest by governments in attracting diaspora remittances to finance developmental projects. Instruments such as diaspora bonds- issued by a state or a private corporation have been used to raise funds from diaspora. These bonds have been used in Israel and India to finance public goods including infrastructure, schools, housing and hospitals, which benefit the society including the poorest population (Kektar and Ratha 2007). Additionally, specialized funds to finance developmental projects has been created in Ghana (Alvarez-Tinajera, 2009). Diaspora remittances have been documented in providing relief to impacted communities after an extreme event. In Haiti, after the storm in 2004, collective remittances were channeled through relief agencies and local churches for all victims. Similarly, in Sri Lanka after the tsunami, diaspora sent remittances immediately to tsunami victims, and in Sudan diaspora send home remittances for the poor in their community (HPG 2007). 5
6 In the context of climate change, remittances have a potential to support disaster risk reduction and local adaptation (Le De, Gaillard and Friesen 2013; Le De, Gaillard and Friesen 2015). On the one hand, the IPCC (2014) summarizes that remittances flows can help to successfully reduce risks associated with climate change. De Haas (2010) shows that remittances have the proven capacity to protect people from income shocks and lifecycle risks. They may also enable significant increases in income and improvements in living conditions. Financial remittances contribute to the disposable income of households, can help to prepare for disasters, better cope with emergencies, and recover more easily (Tacoli 2011). Banerjee et. al (forthcoming), for instance, examined the role of financial remittances on the adaptive capacity of households in flood-affected rural communities of Upper Assam in India. They find that remittances do not address all adaptation needs but they can make a useful contribution towards enabling households to cope with the impacts of environmental change. First, remittances are used to procure essential commodities and access basic amenities that are useful during a shock. Second, the longer remittances are received, the more is invested in longer-term structural changes. Oftentimes, remittances tend to be more stable than other private capital flows during crises (Kapur 2004). With that in mind, there have been proposals to either extend existing temporary working mechanisms or create new ones that would allow migrants from countries afflicted by disasters to remain in their host countries, at least temporarily, so they can send urgently needed remittances back to their home countries. Clemens (2012), for instance, argued that the benefits of remittances flows from extended admissions of seasonal workers from Haiti could easily dwarf any international aid given to the country after the 2010 earthquake. Ultimately, remittances can also be a determinant of the ability to move. Especially international remittances with large impacts due to wage differentials stimulate rural-rural and rural-urban migration (Barrios, Bertinelli and Strobl 2006; Tacoli 2011). Zickgraf et al. (2016) find that remittances on the West African coast help to support those staying at home and in some cases enable them to relocate to safer areas. Remittances are more than just financial flows. Development projects steered by diaspora networks can be efficient instruments when receiving adequate support from other stakeholders, and social networks can remit social capital (Levitt 1998), technology, and knowledge that helps communities to innovate and adopt to changes, as Scheffran, Marmer and Sow (2012) show for Northwest Africa. Warner (2010b) argues that learning networks amongst people can greatly enhance resilience towards environmental challenges. That said, remittances can also have negative consequences. Besides the direct impact of remittances in building household s resilience through consumption smoothing, as an insurance, and ex-ante preparedness and ex-post recovery during extreme events, there is also research that shows there is a trickle-down effect on non-remittance receiving households. Remittances provide migrant s household with investment capital by creating demand for goods and labor offered by others in the source community, hence creating income multiplier (Taylor 2000). On the other hand, there are also negative consequences of remittances especially on non-migrant poor households. First, poor households with low capacity and poor entitlement to livelihood are already vulnerable in pre-disaster contexts. Poor non-migrant households with no additional 6
7 source of income will lack the ability to cope and recover from disaster and extreme events, leaving them worse off than they were before the event (Gaillard and Friesen 2015). Some studies find remittances actually increase inequality during the occurrence of disaster and extreme events. While Adger, Kelly and Ninh (2012) found for instance that remittances in Vietnam raised resilience of receiving households, they were also growing inequality towards non-receiving households. Lack of remittances also reinforces pre-disaster vulnerability, a study conducted in Samoa after cyclone Evan (Gaillard and Friesen 2015) and in Sri Lanka after the tsunami (Deshingkar 2006), found that the poorest and most excluded groups before the events became even worse off afterwards, quoting it as a remittance gap. Additionally, there can be negative feedback loops and migration can deplete wealth, skills, workforce and labor force participation in communities of origin. There is a growing amount of literature on the relative socio-economic impacts of remittances, considering both first- and second-order impacts of remittances on poverty and inequality. Against this background, this study will synthesize existing evidence to understand (i) to what extent economic and social remittances, on both international and internal levels reach the poorest and; (ii) how these remittances affect the resilience of the poor, including those who move as well as those who are voluntarily immobile or entrapped The third question seek to distill good practices and give recommendations on how benefits of remittances can be maximized and negative impacts mitigated in the context of the poorest and the entrapped. This relates to the policy and institutional frameworks within which resilience take place. While there are signs that remittances can have positive and negative effects, it is clear that the impact of all networks is shaped by policy and institutional frameworks that encourage and facilitate, disregard, or hinder their interactions. For instance, policies shaping the costs of transfers, market organization and formalization can make a large difference for the effects that remittances can have on both receiving and sending sides. Le De, Gaillard and Friesen (2015) show for the case of Samoa that several institutional frameworks can help to ensure that remittance flows can take place; how remittances can be integrated into post-disaster assessments and recovery programs; and how to build on migrants to improve assistance. Proposals include institutions that foster communication channels, financial literacy training, facilitation of identification, fee regulations, and others. Vargas-Silva s (2016) recent literature review shows that institutional frameworks enabling communication facilities early on can help to foster flows of remittances. Similarly, de Haas (2010; 2012) shows that facilitating remittance flows through institutional frameworks that foster cheaper, faster, more stable and secure channels can be part of the solution. The real impact of remittances is, however, a function of the larger institutional environment of receiving areas, and thus, the policies for optimizing remittance impacts are general development policies aimed at restoring political trust, creating a stable investment climate and offering social protection to people (de Haas 2010:26). Schüttler (2008) identifies several other entry points for government and non-government stakeholders to improve frameworks for collective remittances; similarly, Scheffran, Marmer and Sow (2012) 7
8 discern opportunities and institutional mechanisms to tap the potential of remittances using several case studies from the Western Sahel. The study will synthesize the available evidence on good practices to improve the impact of remittances for poor people in the context of climate change. It will give recommendations on how risks can be mitigated and benefits amplified. 4. Key deliverables Pursuant to the objective above and the scientific production of the study overall, the consultant will provide: (i) Initial outline of no more than 3-4 pages, single spaced, with a brief summary of the paper to be produced based on key considerations, an outline of the paper s contents, and a short bibliography of key literature; (ii) Draft report with executive summary, based on synthesizing existing evidence, and policy recommendation; (iii) Final report. 5. Required qualifications The consultant should possess the following qualifications: a) A graduate degree in economics, international development, or relevant field; b) At least 10 years of relevant experience in fields relating to poverty, remittances and development, including research methods. c) A good understanding of links between remittances, development and climate change drivers and impacts. d) Demonstrated success in producing academically rigorous and/or peer-reviewed publications in the relevant field; e) Experience of working with international or national policy-making institutions in the relevant field; f) Excellent report writing and communications skills in English. 8
9 5. Timeline and remuneration Deliverable Unit Initial outline Week 1.5 Draft report Week 5-6 Final report Week 8 8 weeks The financial proposal should include the number of days and daily rates. producing this paper is anticipated to be between 30 and 35 working days. 6. Proposal s Format The effort for Proposals for the paper should be no more than 3-4 pages single spaced. They should provide a brief summary of the paper to be produced under the consultancy, an outline of the paper s contents and a short bibliography. The proposal should include 1) concise summary of the paper to be produced, 2) initial outline of the paper s content, 3) methodology, 4) budget (including number of working days), 5) short bibliography, and 6) team composition indicating principal researcher. Proposed analyses should be based on already collected empirical data. Proposals should also include CVs of the principal author(s) 7. Reporting arrangements Proposals and papers shall be submitted to Hanspeter Wyss, Focal Point at KNOMAD Secretariat for the Thematic Working Group Environmental Change and Migration, Senior Program Officer, DECMR (hwyss1@worldbank.org); and Kanta Kumari Rigaud, Lead Environmental Specialist, Climate Policy Team (kkumari@worldbank.org) 8. Copyright and attribution All intellectual property rights in or relating to any works produced during the course of your appointment shall belong to the Bank. All materials produced or acquired under terms of this contract - written, graphic, film, magnetic tape, or otherwise - shall remain the property of the World Bank unless such rights are explicitly relinquished by the World Bank, in writing. The World Bank furthermore retains the exclusive right to publish or disseminate in all languages reports arising from such materials. The rights and duties provided for in this paragraph shall continue, notwithstanding the termination of employment and agreed Terms of Reference. 9
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