Resilience in USAID

Recurrent Crises at the intersection of Chronic Poverty and Exposure to Shocks and Stresses

1. Developmental focus on people/places subject to recurrent crisis – Initial focus where RC = large-scale, humanitarian emergencies

2. Shocks/stresses more explicitly recognized as perennial features (not anomalies) > concurrent investment to:– Reduce and manage risk– Build adaptive capacity– Facilitate inclusive growth

3. Joint humanitarian and development analysis, planning and implementation

Key Features (What’s Different)

JPC Joint Planning and Implementation: Sequence, Layer, Integrate

• Humanitarian assistance > a platform upon which development investments can build– Response and recovery

• Humanitarian assistance > a means of protecting resilience and development gains – Drought Cycle Management (CM)

• Resilience and development investment as a means of reducing recurrent humanitarian needs

From JPCs to CDCSs: Sequencing, Layering, Integrating Humanitarian and Development efforts

• Joint problem analysis and objective setting• Intensified, coordinated strategic planning• Mutually informed and/or integrated project designs and procurements• Partnerships (GA/AGIR/GPR) and policy engagement• Robust learning• Leadership action to address barriers to change

• Ethiopia – PSNP + earlier dryland investments + JPC investments• Kenya - JPC arid lands investments• Somalia - joint OFDA, FFP, development program (APS)• Niger – RISE in agro-pastoralist zone• Burkina Faso – RISE in agro-pastoralist zone

• Nepal – resilience embedded in CDCS + FFP complement to FTF• Yemen – resilience embedded in CDCS• Uganda – resilience as a framework for investment in Karamoja• Mali – resilience embedded in CDCS (in development)• S. Sudan – resilience concept informing transition strategy

• Broader Relevance of Resilience as an Analytic, Programmatic and Organizing Concept – FFP/OFDA, FTF ……..

Resilience: Where and How?

Funding for Focused Resilience Efforts: Illustrative example from the Sahel

sustain development investment, reduce humanitarian burden

Illustrative example of co-funded resilience programs (REGIS-ER/AG) overtime

Coordinating Cross-Bureau Resilience Efforts across USAID

Resilience Leadership Team

+Resilience Secretariat

+Technical Working

Group

GH

DCHA

PPL

BRME3

BFS

OST

Annexes

Recurrent Crisis• Historically high levels of USAID humanitarian assistance (DCHA $’s 2005 to present)

Vulnerability• High rates (& depth) of poverty and chronic vulnerability (frequency of IPC level 2+)• Persistently high acute malnutrition (GAM)• Persistent, large humanitarian caseloads• Conflict/fragility risk • Exposure to hazards, including natural hazards

Enabling Environment• Political will and institutional performance • Effective and responsive leadership at the local, national, and regional levels• Adaptations and innovations already under way (e.g. FMNR • Minimum level of security exists to achieve resilience objectives

Comparative Advantage• Existing USAID humanitarian and development programs (on which to build)• Programs, presence, and capabilities of other U.S. Government agencies

Criteria (or Conditions) for Prioritizing Resilience and New Investments

JPC Results Framework: Objective 1New and existing investments for Burkina Faso and Niger

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OFDA & USAID K co-funded water program

APHIA + (DA-health)

Sequencing, Layering and Integrating in Kenya’s Arid Lands

WFP/FFP FFA (HA)

OFDA ARC (HA) REGAL-IR

(DA - FTF)

REGAL-AG Livestock (DA - FTF)