Climate Mobility Research Consultant

Position Title : **Climate Mobility Research Consultant**

Duty Station : **IOM Philippines Country Office (Manila)**

Classification: **Consultant**

Type of Appointment: **Consultancy**

Estimated Start Date: **ASAP**

Closing Date : **06 July 2026**

**Project Context and Scope**
The Philippines is among the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries, facing recurrent typhoons, floods, droughts, and other environmental hazards that increasingly threaten lives, livelihoods, and development gains. While rapid-onset disasters generate highly visible and well-documented displacement, the impacts of slow-onset climate processes, including sea-level rise, drought, coastal erosion, shifting rainfall patterns, extreme heat, and gradual ecosystem degradation, remain comparatively under-researched and insufficiently integrated into national and local policy and planning frameworks. These progressive environmental changes gradually erode livelihoods, food security, and human well-being over time, often driving incremental and less visible forms of migration and displacement that are difficult to capture through conventional disaster monitoring systems. In many cases, migration occurs before conditions reach a crisis threshold, functioning as a proactive household adaptation strategy rather than a direct response to a single catastrophic event.

IOM Philippines seeks to engage a National Consultant to undertake a scoping and evidence mapping study examining the relationship between slow-onset climate stressors and human mobility, while identifying emerging mobility patterns, evidence gaps, and implications for adaptation planning and climate mobility governance.

The study will be guided by a concise analytical framework examining how slow-onset climate stressors interact with exposure, socio-economic vulnerability, livelihood systems, and adaptation capacities to shape different human mobility outcomes over time, including migration, displacement, immobility, and planned relocation. The assessment should pay particular attention to causal pathways differentiated impacts across population groups (e.g. women and children, Indigenous Peoples, climate-sensitive livelihood groups, informal settlers, etc.) and locations, and the temporal dynamics through which progressive environmental change influences mobility decision-making.

**Organizational Department / Unit to which the Consultant is contributing**

The Consultant will work with the Climate Mobility Unit on the implementation of the INTPA Regional Project, “Building Knowledge and Capacity on the Migration and Climate Change Nexus in South-East Asia,” and will report to IOM Climate Action Officer. All deliverables will be subject to review and approval by IOM Philippines.

**Responsibilities**

*Tasks to be performed under this contract*

- Inception Report (Within 2 weeks from contract signing) - Brief inception report outlining the proposed methodology, analytical framework, stakeholder mapping, consultation approach, workplan, timeline, proposed case study sites, site selection criteria, sampling approach and validation process for the scoping and evidence mapping exercise.
- Desk Review and Evidence Mapping Repository (Within 8–10 weeks from contract signing) - Consolidated and organized repository of relevant literature, policy documents, datasets, institutional initiatives, adaptation strategies, and existing evidence related to slow-onset climate stressors and human mobility in the Philippines. The repository should include the mapping of evidence by thematic focus, geography, mobility type, affected population group, adaptation response, and populations potentially exposed to slow-onset climate risks to identify trends and patterns.
- Stakeholder Consultation Documentation and Organized Data (Within 12–16 weeks from contract signing) - Organized documentation and synthesized findings generated through stakeholder and/or community consultations, including interview summaries, consultation notes, validation feedback, observed mobility pathways, adaptation responses, timing and triggers of mobility decision-making, and identified challenges related to evidence generation, monitoring systems, and policy implementation.
- Evidence Brief/Case Study (Within 18–22 weeks from contract signing) - Concise analytical brief or case study summarizing key findings from the evidence mapping and consultation process, including key slow-onset climate mobility pathways, emerging mobility trends, adaptation responses, evidence and policy gaps, stakeholder and community insights, and recommendations for strengthening climate mobility governance, adaptation planning, and future evidence generation, with clear relevance to priority actions under the Philippine National Adaptation Plan (NAP).
- Knowledge Sharing and Validation Presentation (Within 20–24 weeks from contract signing) - Preparation and presentation of key findings and recommendations during a knowledge-sharing event