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DDVE Seminar Presentation 2009-7
Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change: World Vision's Experience Helping Children
and their Families
Douglas BrownWorld Vision
A presentation made on April 23, 2009 at the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings Civil Society
Policy Forum in Washington, DC
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Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change
World Vision’s Experience Helping Children and Their
Families
9/April/2008 Douglas R. Brown
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Outline
• Who we are and what we do• Climate, livelihoods and vulnerability• Practical examples
– COVACA– FMNR– Conservation Agriculture
• Global perspectives on climate, change and resilience– Coastal areas– Agriculture and food security– Perceptions of risk and attitudes to climate change
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Who we are and what we do• World Vision is:
– “a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice”
• Focus on human and social transformation– Area Development Programs (ADP)– long-term perspective
• Improved well-being for children and their families• A three-pronged strategy
– development programming– humanitarian response– advocacy
• Serve all regardless of religion, race, gender or ethnicity• An international partnership• Assist approximately 100 million people in nearly 100 countries with a
global budget of almost $3.6 billion
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Climate Changeand Human Well-Being• Combating climate change is
central to all humanitarian action– Climate change is not only
an environmental problem as there are:• Social aspects• Economic aspects
– Climate change is fundamentally a development problem
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Sustainable Livelihoods Framework
Livelihood building blocks:• social• human• natural• physical• financial
Livelihood strategy A:• activity 1• activity 2• activity 3
Livelihood strategy B:• activity 1• activity 2• activity 3
Actual livelihood outcomes:• malnutrition• illness• vulnerable• unsustainable
Desired livelihood outcomes:• child well-being• health• resilient• sustainable
Vulnerability and context of household decision-making:• environmental, economic, social context• policies, institutions and procedures (PIPs)
Vulnerability = f(exposure, adaptive capacity)
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COVACACommunity-Owned Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment
• A key component of DRR and Adaptation efforts throughout World Vision
• COVACA in Haiti consisted of:
– A realistic assessment of vulnerabilities and capacities leading to better decision making
– Identify activities that communities can implement within their own resources to protect themselves from selected key threats
– Empower the community to take responsibility for their own protection and implementation the identified activities
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FMNRFarmer-Managed Natural Regeneration
• Key success factors:– Initial incentive
– Genuine active community participation
– Socio-cultural norms
– Institutional change
– Widespread adoption
• Adapting it to other contexts:– West Africa – Senegal, Mali, Niger, Chad
– Ethiopia
– CDM project
– Community see benefit already
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Conservation Agriculture
• Key success factors– Carbon, nutrient and water cycling– Labour resource constraints– Management of crop
residues/mulch– Socio-cultural institutions
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• The future of our planet lies in our hands
• Proactive adaptation –prepare for disasters and change before they occur– reducing
vulnerability and risk– increasing resilience – promoting
preparedness
Asia-Pacific Region Report
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/publications/v.php?id=8131
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Global Food Security InitiativePriority Interventions for Adaptation, Resilience and Food Security
Short-term(Crisis/Emergency)
Mid-term(Transition and Development)
Long-term(Restoration and Development)
General Targeted Food/Cash Assistance
Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF)
Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM)
Food or Cash for Work or Assets (FFW/CFW/FFA/CFA)
Support for Agricultural Inputs
Essential Nutrition Package (ENP)
Food for Education (FFE)
Core Health and Nutrition Package
Diversification of Farming Systems
Soil and Water Conservation/Management
Post-harvest Handling, Storage and Marketing
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Global Agricultural Strategy• To promote ecologically-sound, socially and economically
viable and just small-holder agriculture and NRM practices that contribute to the well-being of children
– Promote more productive and sustainable agricultural systems
– Protect and/or restore healthy agro-ecosystems
– Support viable markets and smallholder agricultural enterprises
– Build smallholder household resilience and capacity to manage risk in the face of shocks
– Engage in advocacy supportive of smallholder agricultural development
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Climate Change Survey
• Organization-wide survey– Attitudes to climate change
– Perceptions of risk
– Understanding of concepts• climate change
• adaptation
• Mitigation
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Choose Hope• Climate science:
– Projections of what might happen if– Predictions of what will happen
• We have a choice– Denial says “nothing needs to be done”– Despair says “nothing can be done”– Between these, there is hope – with hope we:
• Look for solutions• Act as stewards• Choose justice• Protect and nurture our children and their future
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