Integrating approach: sustainable livelihoods, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
As part of an international series, Practical Action is hosting a seminar bringing together academics, practitioners and policy-makers to explore the links between Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLA) and approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation.
Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches make reference to the vulnerability vontext, principally framed as exposure to shocks, stresses and seasonality. Poor people regularly face hazards and stresses which undermine their lives and production systems, and on occasions result in widespread disaster. Climate change is causing such hazards to increase in frequency and intensity. This seminar aims to bring together different groups working on sustainable livelihoods, disasters and climate change to share approaches and experiences and to work together more closely to address these multiple challenges.
This seminar will explore how sustainable livelihoods approaches can be used and adapted to better understand issues of risk and resilience and what this means for reducing vulnerability to disasters and the effects of climate change, in a more integrated way.
In particular it will seek to address the following questions through presentations and discussion:
-What can experience with Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches teach us about strengthening resilience to disasters and climate change impacts? Presenters:Gehendra Gurung (Practical Action Nepal); Jeff Woodke (Jemed, Niger)
-Policies, institutions and processes at the community, district and national level: what are the critical requirements for supporting disaster and climate resilient livelihoods?
Presenters:Olivia Coghlan (DFID); Marcus Oxley (Global Civil Society Network for DR)
-Frameworks for integration: challenges and opportunities for bringing together disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and sustainable development
Presenters:Kath Pasteur (Practical Action); John Twigg (UCL); Tom Mitchel (IDS); Richard Ewbank (ChristianAid)