Resilient Livelihoods –
The Development of Christian Aid’s Approach
South Asia PPA Partners Workshop 2013
Presented at the Christian Aid – Regional Consultation on Resilience – South Asia
06-08 Feb 2013, Kathmandu, Nepal
Climate change has increasingly exposed the
flaws in our development approach…
The Problem
Despite 50 years of aid and development, we
are still not effectively anticipating, mitigating
and responding to short-term disasters in a
way that enhances long-term development
We are not implementing long-term
development in a flexible way that mitigates
and responds to short-term risk
And we are missing the inter-relationships
between risk that undermine the sustainability
of our work e.g. health and climate
We need to break down the silos we work
in…
The Background
Past experience, evaluations, partner
research and feedback (e.g. South Asia CC
Workshop 2008)
The THIA process (climate change for the 1st
time), now into P4C
Significant programmes – esp. BDRC, AIF,
SCR
Guidance – adaptation toolkits 1-4, good
practice guidelines, earlier frameworks (e.g.
climate change 2008)
But also…
Linking our conceptual models and tools
(SLA+RCM+PAR) + (PVCA+HAP+PPAM)
Climate change (adaptation learning and
practice)
Resilience thinking from academic partners
(IDS, HFP, Elinor Ostrom & WSSD 2002)
Science-based approaches, esp. those that
focus on anticipation/forecasting risk…
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Highly
unpredictable
(short lead
times)
Sporadic,
irregular,
singular
Relatively
Predictable
(long lead
times)
Frequent,
incremental
Earthquakes
Drought
Volcanic
eruptions
Disease
outbreaks
Sea-level rise
Cyclones
Market
failure
Conflict
Ecosystem service
collapse
Theft of
assets
Gender-based
violence
Temperature
rise
The Process
First draft (and feedback from colleagues)
Second draft (June 2012, to PPA workshop)
Programme consultations (e.g. The
Philippines)
Third draft (Sept 2012, to senior management)
Circulated to all programme managers for final
feedback (Oct 2012)
Two products – a short briefing (public) and a
technical paper (programmes, the sector)
But what do you think
resilience means?