Resilience concept of FAO Experiences of FAOSY in resilience building

Content FAO main goals, Resilience concept Achievements in resilience building Conclusions, lessons learned and recommendations

FAO Goals Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition Make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable Reduce rural poverty Enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems Increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises

The concept of resilience makes sense only when applied to a system A system is a group of interacting components, operating together for a common purpose, capable of reacting as a whole to external stimuli: it is affected directly by its own outputs and has a specified boundary based on the inclusion of all significant feedback. Source: Spedding (1988) Examples of systems

Resilience concept (FAO definition) Resilience is the ability to prevent disasters and crises, and to anticipate, absorb, accommodate or recover from them in a timely, efficient and sustainable manner.

Examples of systems in food security analysis

Factors that make households resilient: Income and access to food assets such as land and livestock Social safety nets such as food assistance and social security Access to basic services such as water, health care, electricity, etc. Households' adaptive capacity which is linked to education and diversity of income sources The stability of all these factors over time

Increasing the resilience of agricultural livelihoods to threats and crises FAO believes that countries, communities and individuals, together with development and humanitarian actors, can build livelihoods that are resilient to disasters and crises. Increasing the resilience of agricultural livelihoods is a powerful lever to reach the Sustainable Development Goal pledge “to leave no one behind”.

The resilience concept is related in different ways to the concepts of stability, sustainability and vulnerability. The resilience of a household is also strictly related to its livelihood strategies. Vulnerability Stability Resilience Sustainability Livelihoods

Resilience measurement at FAO RIMA (Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis) is an innovative quantitative approach that  estimates resilience to food insecurity RIMA-II answers questions such as: Who is most in need? Where should investment focus? Which dimensions of resilience need to be supported? To what extent have interventions increased or decreased target populations’ resilience?

FAO- EU Partnership on resilience building Experiences of FAOSY in resilience building Strengthening the resilience of crisis-affected people and their host communities for food and nutrition security in Syria FAO- EU Partnership on resilience building

Project locations

Alternative resources of energy Water management Achievements to date Establishment of 7 technical working groups for planning, programming and implementation purposes: Crop production: Livestock production Alternative resources of energy Water management Nutrition sensitive agriculture Rural employment and income generating activities Risk governance and institutional capacity building

Achievements to date Improving children’s and communities knowledge of nutritional values of food and the importance to include safe and nutrition food to their diet to run a healthy and productive life through the establishment of schools gardens in 5 governorates

Achievements to date Establishment of 30 biogas units in 5 governorates- a model of self sufficient farming system: environmentally friendly and economic source of energy for production and consumption 12 June 2017 STRENGTHENING THE RESILIENCE OF CRISIS-AFFECTED PEOPLE AND THEIR HOST COMMUNITIES FOR FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY IN SYRIA

Achievements to date Rehabilitation of irrigation canals in Homs and Hama- productive assets for production

Achievements to date The medicinal plant project in Al-kadmus, Tartous- alternative source of income for women headed household.

Achievements to date The beekeeping project in 5 governorates

Achievements to date Drought early warning system and food security information management capacity of national counterparts strengthened

Achievements to date A Resilience Programming Network for good practices established: Through Workshops with key stakeholders and communities: focusing on performance assessment, gathering of good practices and recommendations for future actions Through organizing regular meetings for the TWGs Through, launching a resilience bulletin on regular basis

Conclusions Resilience building is possible only through partnerships – one organization cannot cover the full spectrum Resilience building as a shift of paradigm from purely humanitarian interventions and medium term sustainable actions Technical Working Groups as consultative mechanism among relevant stakeholders for resilience building

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