The document discusses resilience building through disaster risk reduction efforts by Swiss NGOs. It presents case studies from Caritas in Bangladesh, Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation in Afghanistan, and SRC in Honduras on how these organizations contribute to learning and transformation. The session aims to explore how stakeholders can support learning and transformation to strengthen resilience in communities in the context of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction work.

1. Strengthening Resilience in the
context of learning and transformation
Examples from member organisations
of the Swiss NGO DRR Platform
with contribution
from
IDRC Parallel Session, 28.08.2012

2. Vision of the Swiss NGO DRR Platform
• Network of professionals dedicated to better prepare
women and men, communities and governments to all
aspects of DRR and ACC.
• Its main goal is to better adapt to climatic trends and
shocks, to more effectively mitigate risk and enhance
prevention of risks in their work by capturing the diversity
of knowledge of Swiss NGOs and their partners.

3. Session
Objective
• Discuss how Swiss NGOs contribute to resilience building
through DRR
 Focus on learning and transformation
Programme
• Case studies: Caritas in Bangladesh, Helvetas Swiss
Întercooperation in Afghanistan, SRC in Honduras
• Conceptual input: key findings on learning and transformation
in relation to the case studies
• Discussion: how can stakeholders contribute to learning and
transformation?

4. Resilience
• Increasingly important, shaping the development agenda
• Binding force linking DRR, ACC and development
Definition (SREX 2012)
• The ability of a system and its component parts
• to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, or recover from the effects
of a hazardous event in a timeley and efficient manner,
• including through ensuring the preservation, restoration, or
improvement of its essential basic structures and functions