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Reducing Vulnerability to Climate ChangeWorld Vision’s
Experience Helping Children and Their
Families
9/April/2008 Douglas R. Brown
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
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
Climate Change and 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
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)
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
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
Conservation Agriculture
• Key success factors– Carbon, nutrient and water
cycling– Labour resource constraints– Management of crop
residues/mulch– Socio-cultural institutions
• 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
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
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
Climate Change Survey
• Organization-wide survey– Attitudes to climate change– Perceptions of risk– Understanding of concepts
• climate change• adaptation• Mitigation
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
THANK YOU