May 15, in Side Event "Global Partnership for Resilience" Presented by The Rockefeller Foundation.

1. The role of ICT4D innovation in
“Building Resilience”
Nairobi, Kenya, March 2014

2. What is Resilience?
• the capacity of HH’s, communities, countries,
and systems to mitigate, adapt to and recover
from shocks and stresses in ways that reduces
vulnerability and facilitates inclusive growth.
• The ability to recover or ‘bounce back’ after a
catastrophic event, without significant
external support.

3. What are the shocks and stressors?
Extreme climatic events
Global market volatility
Population doubling every 20 years
Services/ infrastructure cannot meet demand
Health problems
Limited education
Financial inequity accelerates social divisions
Natural resource limitations i.e., no land
No jobs leading to Conflict
Poverty traps

4. Why is Resilience important?
• Recurring crises in Africa and Asia have cost
donors and Governments billions of dollars.
• Despite short-term humanitarian success,
current interventions have not substantially
improved capacity to withstand future shocks /
stresses. More people need help
• As a result, the concepts of resilience and risk
management have emerged as frameworks to
improve the capacity of vulnerable communities
to withstand future shocks and stresses.

5. Lack of resilience diverts resources
from development…
0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0%
Averagelow dryland
Nigeria
South Africa
Zambia
Tanzania
Gambia
Lesotho
Swaziland
Kenya
Angola
Ethiopia
Zimbabwe
Botswana
Namibia
Senegal
CapeVerde
Burkina Faso
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Eritrea
Chad
Sudan
Somalia
Medium
Mostly
dryland
Average developing countries
Average Sub-Saharan Africa
Share of humanitarian aid in total ODA (2000-2010)
Number of Persons
in Need of
Humanitarian
Assistance
in…. Mauritania, Senegal, Mali,
Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad
by Year

6. Real challenges of we need to address…
 25 % of Africa’s population
lives in dry lands which suffer
recurrent shocks.
 Real concern that rising costs
of emergency case load will
drain development funding.
 Choice: Should we focus on
emergency or Should we
rethink how investments are
made in emergency and
development operations?
Source: (CGIAR) - Zomer et al. (2007) and Zomer et al. (2008) based on WorldClim

7. What’s different about Resilience?
• Seeking to Integrate Emergency and Development
• Supports market based methods for growth / stability
• More emphasis on Governance and systems thinking
• Requires greater Voice and Agency local actors
• Scaled solutions and “connectedness” between scales
• Purposeful attention to conflict resolution
• Expanding DRR to Program wide “Risk management”
• More local responsibility and accountability

8. Unexpected trends….
•from free to fees

9. How can technology and new financial models
help us to co-invest in smarter solutions?
• Solutions that support scaled engagement
• Systems help us monitor and learn what works
• Maps and helps coordinate investments
• Improves feedback loops with target clients
• Offers mass affordable information access
• Supports better feedback to Governance systems
• Enables co-investment and ownership
• Provide options for better “value for money”

10. How does Technology help build
More Resilient Programming?
• Ability to Push, Pull and Share information now
• Multiple ways to promote productivity gains
• New forms of service delivery
• Helps to blends public and private capital
• Map and Measure actions - accountability
• Monitor changes and supports actionable data
• Helps people plan and react more effectively.

11. Unexpected Trends….
•From Mass
communication to
•Mass Customisation

12. Innovation Examples from this week
• Finding new jobs – Jobs Souktel, iMerit
• Mapping –ESRI, Poi mapper
• Monitoring and Evaluation – Kimetrica, e-valuate, T-works
• Weather alerts – Grameen, e-extension
• Market information – Esoko, IFDC
• Knowledge sharing – Iformbuilder, Frontlines, DW
• Education – Bridge Academies
• Learning by Video – Digital Green
• Financial services – MPESA,
• Analytics – Zoho, Salesforce reports
• Medical support – Dimagi, Datadyne,
• e-extension – Min of Ag, GSMA

13. Working at Scale across Scale levels
1M
100,000
10,000
1,000
Health
NRM
Livelihoods
Value chains
EarlyWarning/
DRR/ CCA
Connectedness
Community
Districts
Households
National

14. SPA
Highly
vulnerable
Vulnerable
but Viable
RECOVER
BUILD
GROW
Resilient and
empowered
IncreasingHHresilience
Increasingmarketperformance
Consistent
market sales
Infrequent
market sales
Occasional
market sales
REBOUND
Pathway to
Prosperity
ASSETS
SKILLS
SERVICES
RESILIENCE
Market Pull
Market Push

15. The community
shock
1.
Disaster
Risk Reduction
Building Resilient Pathways to Prosperity
3.
2.
Consistent
market sales
Highly
vulnerable
Vulnerable
but Viable
Blended
Capital
funding
Private
capitalResilient and
empowered
IncreasingHHresilience
Increasingmarketperformance
Infrequent
market sales
Occasional
market sales
Transition
Grant Funding
Emergency
Grant Funds
Emergency
Funds
Resilience
Programming
$$$$$$$$

16. •Achieving scaled
solutions through
innovation, risk
management and
blended financing

17. Conclusions
• Globally, societies are embracing technology as a way of
working smarter, civil society needs to do the same.
• Innovation offers a diversity of tools and combinations
to deal with more complex and scaled challenges.
• Blending different financial models supports new ways
of programing service delivery (grants and investments)
• Better information enables us to reduce risks for
investments and “insure” against future shocks
• Can help us achieve more resilient solutions that offer
investors /communities choice and “value for money”

18. THANK YOU!
Resilience through innovation
Lets make it Happen!

19. Resilience and Risk
• We live in a multi-risk environment.
• Global and Local risks are changing rapidly.
• The scale of the challenges are escalating
• The dynamics of recurrent shocks and persistent
stressors make for a complex situation
• Current humanitarian and development approaches
are not able to address these evolving contexts.