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Christian Aid

07th April 2010

STRENGTHENING CLIMATE

RESILIENCE (SCR)

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a new initiative…..

To enhance the ability of government andcivil society in developing countries to reducedisaster losses by strengthening theresilience of vulnerable communities tocurrent and future climate variability

A consortium led by IDS UK in partnershipwith Christian Aid and Plan supported byDFID

Christian Aid is coordinating the work in EastAfrica and South Asia

Plan is Coordinating the work in East Asia

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project duration :

Initially for 2 years (Nov 2009-Oct2011) withpossible extension up to 3 more years

project locations:

South Asia- India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka

East Asia- Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines

East Africa- Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan

civil society anchors: In SA

India – SEEDS, Bangladesh- BCAS, Practical Action, Nepal and Practical Action Sri Lanka

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rationale…..Current approach to disaster risk reduction by policy makers and practitioner is based on

■ Addressing vulnerability,

■ Managing Risks

■ Enhancing preparedness

■ Emergency response mechanisms

Climate change has altered the frequency and magnitude of hazard events and has changed underlying vulnerabilities

These changes pose a challenge in front of DRM community to integrate added dimensions of climate change impact in DRR work

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SCR… key purpose

SCR seeks to develop a climate smart approach to managing disasters to protect the communities from the impacts of climate change- a climate smart approach to disaster risk management – based on –

■ Addressing unsafe condition

■ Promoting adaptive capacity

■ Tackling poverty and its drivers

Create a evidence base of climate smart development and disaster risk management approach

To demonstrate policy makers and practitioners that integrated approach will achieve big impact

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building an evidence base….

Develop evidence of climate and disasterresilience at national and regional level indeveloping countries.

Analyze and communicate policy implications;based on this evidence

Act as a catalyst for country level dialogue andadvocacy around gaps that can protect and buildcommunity resilience to disaster and climate risk

Identify opportunities for learning and communicationacross different communities of practice

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processes till October 2011Stakeholder Mapping

Actor- governance Mapping

Gathering an evidence-base

Consultation at different levels- national, regional, global…

Conduct field research- India, Cambodia and Sudan

Defining climate and disaster resilience approach

Field testing of the Climate Smart Approach

Advocacy for linkages between groups of actors within the climatechange adaptation (CCA), disaster risk management (DRM) anddevelopment community more broadly.

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key outcomes by Oct 2011….

A climate and disaster resilience approach is developed based on existing literature, expert knowledge and selected case studies.

Approach is tested, reviewed and used to build an evidence-base of how to achieve climate and disaster resilience in policy and practice

Advocacy for improved coordination between different communities of practice, particularly DRR, adaptation, livelihoods and social protection

(Year-3,4,5 will be used for developing climate smart programming and policies)

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where we are now…

Stakeholder Mapping: Completed, updated

Governance Mapping: to be completed by

April

National Consultations- happening

Regional Workshop : Tentatively on 24-26th

May 2010 at New Dehi

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linkages with similar initiative…

SCR will proactively link with other initiatives through its regional and global partners

A natural link on aspects of research and advocacy work with ACCRA (Africa climate change resilience alliance)

ACCRA is a sister consortium led by Oxfam and ODI with SCF, CARE, WV supported by DFID

ACCRA geographical focus is in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique

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THANK YOU!!!

Climate Smart DRM…Proactively Manage Risks

Considers underlying drivers of vulnerability like social, political, economic and climate change related root causes

Adopt a more flexible and reflexive (longer term) perspective, recognizing changes in the risks and uncertainties, associated with climate change extremes,

Takes action based on improved information of changing climate extremes (from both scientific and traditional sources)

Recognizes that subtle change in climate related means can significantly increase people’s vulnerability and create more severe impact even if hazard impacts are no worse than those experienced before

Integrates knowledge of changing climate extremes into multi hazards/multi risk assessment, appreciating changing extremes can impact other hazards

Builds capacity of target groups to manage changing risks and uncertainties

Deliver interventions that do not contribute to problem of climate change