Enhancing Resilience

Key Concepts

WHY THINGS
BOUNCE
BACK?

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 Learning objectives

Participants should understand:

• Why resilience agenda is given so
much importance in Africa
• Resilience assessment framework
• Resilience in programming

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Resilience

Why Resilience Agenda in

Ethiopia?

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Why Resilience Agenda in Ethiopia?

• Continuous cycles of crisis, multi-risk

environment
• Climate change
• Concerns that the humanitarian
interventions save lives but not
livelihoods
• Huge requirements of funds in the
humanitarian response
• Growing number of disasters
• Increasing vulnerability of
communities

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Resilience Agenda and Intergovernmental
Authority on Development (IGAD)

13.4 million people affected by

draught

Summit in Nairobi, September

2011

IGAD mandated to coordinate the

regional initiative “Ending
Draught Emergencies” or
“Drought disaster Resilience and
Sustainability Initiative ”

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Resilient Vs Vulnerable

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DEFENITION OF RESILIENCE

The ability of children, women, families,

communities and systems to anticipate, adapt
to, manage and recover from the negative
effects of shocks and stresses (e.g. natural
disasters, epidemics, socio-economic instability,
conflict) in a manner that reduces vulnerability,
protects livelihoods, accelerates and
sustains recovery and supports economic
and social development while preserving
cultural integrity.
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 Definitions of Resilience

Definition of Resilience by EHCT

The ability of countries, communities and households to

anticipate, adapt to, and/or recover from the effects of
potentially hazardous occurrences (natural disasters,
economic stability, conflict) in a manner that protects
livelihoods, accelerates and sustains recovery, and
supports economic and social development.

April 2013

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Resilience Assessment Framework
TANGO 2012. Adapted from DFID Disaster Resilience Framework (2011), TANGO Livelihoods Framework (2007),
DFID Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (1999) and CARE Household Livelihood Security Framework (2002).

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FAO Resilience Framework

Taken from “Measuring the Resilience ”, A concept note on resilience tools 10

Resilience Programming Framework

Resilience Outcomes

Improved Development Improved Capacity to manage Risks

Improved Adoptive Capacity
indicators

Government and Enabling Conditions for Achieving Scale

Household and Household and

Community Adoptive Community Disaster
Capacity Risk Management

Joint Problem Analysis

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Multi-Sectoral Resilience Assessment
 Key Programming Strategies

• Risk Informed Programming

• Integrated, synergetic programmatic approaches and

partnerships

• Applying a long term focus and time horizon for

results

• Acknowledging the complexity of chronic

vulnerability and risk

• Putting vulnerable households and communities first

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Synergy and Partnership Building

Examples of synergies:
• Nutrition (including nutrition education) integrated
into food security and productivity interventions
• “One health model” applied in arid and semi-arid
lands by aligning livestock and human health
services (joint vaccinations, ect)
• WASH interventions for sustainable human, animal
agricultural use
• PSNP

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 EHCT Endorsed Resilience Position Paper

1. A Multifaceted Problem
2. Cross Sector Resilience Building
3. Suggested Key Programming Strategies
4. Conclusion - Six Suggested Action
Points for EHCT

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Challenges in Moving the Resilience Agenda
Forward

Government policy mangers, donors and implementing agencies

have limited understand of how best to priorities investment in
resilience building

Intuitional frameworks for implementing resilience oriented

prgrammes need to be clarified in order to develop integrated,
multi-sectoral programs

Linking humanitarian and development approaches

Funding mechanisms (linking short and long term funds)

Ecosystem health – Climate Change

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THANKS

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