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- Permanent Link:
- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI13022789/00001
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- Summary:
- This handbook is a step-by-step guide to understanding changing disaster risks and how to translate this understanding into a set of possible actions. It provides examples of Practical Action’s framework on resilience, called the V2R framework, and its application in Nepal. People face a range of shocks and stresses which are deepening vulnerability. Marginalized people are especially exposed to changing hazards and risks, and thus face increasing vulnerability. So, promoting resilience in practice is an emerging development goal, but how to operationalize the concept of resilience is a challenge for many organizations. The V2R handbook begins with a background of why it is needed, provides a short overview of the V2R framework, and discusses a step-by-step process for holistic program design based on experiences from Nepal. The V2R framework offers an approach on how to build resilience in a variety of contexts through numerous entry points such as strengthening livelihoods, disaster preparedness, adaptive capacity, and addressing governance issues. The step by step process of operationalizing the V2R framework offers a methodology for gathering, analyzing, and linking information across the different components (livelihoods, hazards, governance and uncertainty) together for holistic program design. Each of the seven steps provides context as to why the step is important, guiding questions for key issues, a workbook as an example of how to collect the information needed, and a signpost of potential tools to help uncover the answers in a participatory way. The handbook has divided the tools in terms of their use for information gathering around: space, time, relationships, and other variables. The seven steps include: community profiling; livelihood analysis; hazard analysis; analysis of policies and institutions, uncovering climate information from historical records and community perceptions; adapting to current trends and shifting patterns; and information synthesis. The handbook concludes that confidence in identifying appropriate adaptation interventions increases by using updated participatory tools to gather information on community perceptions of climate change, and meteorological data on changing hazards and its impacts on livelihoods. It further suggests that adaptation interventions should be based on community strengths and incorporate existing governance institutions to promote resilience. ( English )
- Subject:
- Disaster Risk Reduction ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- Ibrahim, M., Ward, N. (2012). From vulnerability to resilience: a handbook for programming design based on field experience in Nepal. Practical Action
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