Iris Krebber of DFID__ Building resilience in ARD

Global Donor Platform, 26 April 2012

Building Resilience in ARD: DFID’s Approach


Why resilience?• Lack of progress on MDG 1 c (hunger and undernutrition)• Stickiness of the problem undermines progress in human

and economic development• Population growth• Emerging middle classes, changing consumption patterns• Need to increase food production, with limited resources

and in an era of climate change • Increasing numbers and impacts of shocks and crises,

with the poorest disproportionately affected• …. an even greater challenge in an era of economic

volatility and scarce financial resources


The reality in vulnerable areas is often still this:


But we want this:

Ensure survival, strengthen food security and livelihoods and continue on the trajectory out of poverty

Poverty

Food security

Survival


DFID working definition Disaster Resilience is the ability of countries,

communities and households to manage change, by maintaining or transforming living standards in the face of shocks or stresses - such as earthquakes, drought or violent conflict - without compromising their long-term prospects.

More broadly, resilience enables people, households, communities and countries to manage change by maintaining or transforming their living standards in the face of shocks and stresses, while continuing to develop and without compromising their long-term prospects.


Where have we come from?Our thinking builds on•Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Policy, 2006•Humanitarian Emergency Response Review (HERR)•UK Response to the HERR, both 2011•Wider learning from the preparedness, LRRD (linking relief, rehabilitation and development), sustainability and other agendas – Resilience builds on but goes beyond these frameworks.


Where are we going? UK Commitments• Address resilience in all country programmes by 2015:

Priority countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal and Bangladesh2nd tier: Pakistan, Niger, Chad, South Sudan, Zimbabwe and BurmaTwo regions: Sahel and Carribean

• International leadership to embed disaster resilience in key institutions and governments

• Coherent links between humanitarian and development work, in particular in fragile and conflict situations

→ Results so far? This is an emerging theme – many relevant discussions underway or starting now


The women in this photo are now trained how to feed, house and prevent disease among their ducks. Small changes, like rearing ducks instead of chickens to cope with flooding, help families to maintain a livelihood during the monsoon season.


Elements of the DFID Resilience Framework


Resilience at different levels, with various dimensions

International

National

Local

Individual/ householdSocial

Politics and institutions

Hum

an E

ducation, Health, skills

Physical Infrastructure

Natural

Natural resources

FinancialInvestm

ent stability, Finance and Banking


So what’s new in this? How is it different from good (sustainable) development programming?

• The resilience approach acknowledges continuous change, sometimes as stresses and shocks, and builds capacities to manage them

• Cuts across all sector programmes• Links humanitarian and development programming

– as a lens, not a cross cutting issue!• It helps clarify priorities and define trade-offs…• … thus enabling informed decision makingWhat kind of resilience do we want, for whom, and against what?


A paradigm shift → Increased impact at better value for money


Way forwardLeadership in delivering the concept internationally• Political Champions for Resilience,

including UK Secretary of State for Development Andrew Mitchell

• To include: traditional and non-traditional donors, recipient countries, key multilaterals

• To focus work on ‘hotspot’ countries, not HQs• To build on existing work and processes, add

value and push for reform


Working at the DFID centre and with country offices• What does it mean for our

structures and processes?• What does it mean to

‘embed’ disaster resilience?

• What would be a minimum level?

• Mainstream across the office or vertical programme or both?

• Tools? Partners?• Community impacts good,

but how to go to scale?

THANK YOU

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Iris Krebber of DFID__ Building resilience in ARD