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Approaches of

Resilience Building

Elora FerdousRegional Change Lear- Resilience Building

Presented at the Christian Aid

Regional Consultation on Resilience

South Asia

06-08 Feb 2013, Kathmandu, Nepal


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Whats different about resilience?

Is it just good development, or rebranding

existing work?

What does a resilience programme look like?

For Oxfam, resilience is the desired outcome,

rather than a particular type of programme.The key is to start by considering the risksthat a community faces, and work to reducethem.


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What is Resilience?

Oxfam defines resilience as the ability of women, men

and children to realize their rights and improve their

wellbeing despite shocks, stresses and uncertainty. Thus

resilience:


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Resilience ..

Addressesshocks (e.g.

disasters,

conflict, foodprice volatility)and stresses

(climatechange,

ecosystemdecline,

insecurity), anduncertainty

Is not just aboutcoping which is

often about sellingassets, nor is it

about bouncingback.

. People must beable to jump

beyond and to feelconfident in their

capacity to providesupport for their

families regardlessof shocks and

stresses

Is ultimatelyabout people,

Is not just aboutearly warning

systems, anddrought resistantseeds),

- resiliencerequires changesto the structural

causes ofvulnerability and

thus involveschallenging the

status quo.


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Resilience building is a process


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Key to Resilience building:

Analyzing Risks?Risks can be political, economic or environmental and include:

Conflict, insecurity, violence and tensions;

Volatility in food and commodity markets;

Natural disasters;

Climate Change;

Crime, corruption;

Overuse of resources, ecosystem decline and degradation.


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Risk Analysis at the Core of Programming

Risk analysis needs to:

be substantially based on community viewpoints and putcommunity voices at the centre

reflect power dynamics, vulnerability assessments, inequality,

gender and the most vulnerable groups

look at current and future risk and recognise multiple hazards,long term stresses and uncertainty

updated, to reflect increased understanding of complexities

and changing contexts as the programme evolves.


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BUILDING RESILIENCE WITH EQUALITY

Resilience must lead to with the most vulnerable, as they

have the hardest time in recovering from shocks and often areexcluded from accessing the means that can protect them

from destitution.

Secondly, it will require the meeting of basic rights.Everyone has an equal right to life, liberty and security as wellas a standard of living adequate for health and well-being,

including food, clothing, housing and medical care and

necessary social services, and the right to security in the

event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, orold age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond

control


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Thirdly, it requires challenging power imbalances whichkeep people poor, marginalised and therefore vulnerable.

More powerful groups are able to capture more government

services, control markets and exercise privileged influence

over the structure of society

Fourthly, it will entail leveraging resources to fund this.Greater resources need to be directed towards areas where

there is a greater need for them


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Social protection as a pre-requisite

for resilience..

Social protection programmes are particularly important for

building resilience they are pro-poor and pro-growth


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Empowerment and building effective

institutions

Access to resources and rights is governed by institutions.

Institutions reflect power structures within society and are not

always the most democratic, nor always provide rights and

resources according to need.


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ENSURING ASSETS AND ACCESS TORESOURCES FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE

Access to land is particularly important for both the rural and

urban poor because it can provide a means of production,

shelter, dignity, and a means for accumulation.

Natural resources are a key to resilience building for poor

people. Rural livelihoods and well-being are directly reliant onthe diversity and health of ecosystems and the services they

provide (e.g. fuel, food, etc.), and also most vulnerable to

changes in those services


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Some of the barriers of Resiliencebuilding: Development and humanitarian work is entirely separate.

They work in Silos creating confusion between ways ofworking

Aid funding streams not fit for resilience work

Resilience-building requires long-term (in the range six to tenyears) flexible funding, often capable of addressing immediate

and longer-term needs simultaneously


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Risk as Humanitarian issue..?

The central problem for risk is that it has been seen, as a

humanitarian issue, and not been brought into the

development discourse.

In order to strengthen the essential political dimension, riskand resilience need to be integrated into development policy

and practice at all levels.


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Where we start the Resilience building..

Disaster

48 hrassessment/

(Resiliencebuilding

starts here)

EFSL ends..Resilience

building starswith

developmentplanning

Long termDevelopmentprogramme


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PCVA

EMMA

HEA

GEM


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Within Oxfam

EFSL EconomicJustice

DRR

Long term

Developmentplanning

Who are majorresource providers

On Climate changeanalysis

IFPRI

IRRI

CIAT

IFPRI: PakistanNepal

IRRI: Bangladesh

CIAT: South EastAsia


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Measuring Resilience

Still developing....


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Risk management is key

National governments, donors, humanitarian anddevelopment organisations and civil society must put riskfaced by the most vulnerable at the heart of all long-termplanning and humanitarian and development work

All development and humanitarian actors donors,governments, international organisations and NGOs shouldonly fund and implement work which seeks to reduce risk, and

provide greater support and resources to build peoples

capacity to adapt.


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New ways of working

Resilience is not what we do but how we do our work

humanitarian and development actors need to develop joint

analyses and a single strategy.

Donors and governments need to find new ways of providing

long term flexible funding.

Governments need to work together to ensure that risk and

resilience are reflected in the post-2015 Millennium

Development Goals.


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Thank You

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