Resilience in action technical brief: Climate & ecosystem-inclusive disaster risk reduction
The Resilience in Action Series aims to bring development practitioners one step closer to bridging the gap between theory and practice for integrating a resilience lens in programming, answering questions such as: how does a resilience lens change the design of interventions in key sectors? How do we shift design and implementation of interventions to promote resilience-building within programs?
This brief examines the requirements for integrating a resilience approach to Climate and Ecosystems-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (CEDRR). A framework, three CEDRR case studies, and example good practices are presented to inform and shift how practitioners design and adaptively manage development and humanitarian programs and policies. The brief concludes that this approach to promoting climate and environmental sensitivity, risk reduction, and resilience capacity-building works best when applied equally to operations, staffing, and partnerships as a foundation for an enabling environment. Adopting this approach supports adaptive program design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation amidst shocks and stresses impacting communities. Ultimately, the authors illustrate how a focus on resilience can promote “win-win nexus strategies,” address risk, and support healthy eco-systems and sustainable livelihoods.