Community-based resilience-building: A UNDP guidance note
Over the past several decades, UNDP and many other organizations have implemented many community-based initiatives to reduce people’s vulnerability to a range of shocks and hazards. Experiences and reviews of lessons learned, however, have pointed to mixed results regarding the impact and long-term sustainability of this support. This calls for revisiting UNDP’s current approaches, which are still rooted in conventional and siloed risk management practices. Coupled with the growing understanding of systemic risk, there is a need for a shift in the underlying paradigm towards comprehensive community-based resilience-building.
This Guidance Note complements UNDP’s Crisis Offer with a comprehensive approach to community-based resilience-building that spans disaster risk management, climate adaptation, health risk management, conflict prevention, peace building, and ecosystem management. The Guidance offers generic principles and entry points for UNDP programme design and implementation, while outlining key considerations, supported by case studies, tools and references.