Institutionalising resilience: the World Vision story
This reports shares World Vision's experience of embedding disaster risk reduction and, more recently, resilience-building into its development and humanitarian practice to safeguard livelihoods as well as lives. It presents the three main 'visions' of resilience as: (i) the integration of climate change adaptation/disaster risk reduction into development programming; (ii) integration of relief and development sectors; and (iii) integration of a range of shocks and stresses (natural and human-made) into development programming.
It reviews World Vision’s experience of institutionalising resilience by examining three spheres of change: programming context, organizational context, and external policy and market context. Key findings are summarised across these spheres in order to deepen World Vision’s institutionalising of resilience and share recommendations with policy-makers, senior management and national directors of non-government organizations (NGOs), which are also embarking on a similar journey.