May 15, Side Event "Sharing Donor Best Practices to Institutionalize Resilience". Presented by USAID.

1. Resilience in
USAID

2. 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)

3. 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

4. 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

5. • 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?

6. Funding for Focused Resilience Efforts:
Illustrative example from the Sahel

7. sustain development investment,
reduce humanitarian burden
Illustrative example of co-funded resilience
programs (REGIS-ER/AG) overtime

8. Coordinating Cross-Bureau
Resilience Efforts across USAID
Resilience
Leadership Team
+
Resilience
Secretariat
+
Technical Working
Group
GH
DCHA
PPL
BRME3
BFS
OST

9. Annexes

10. 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

11. JPC Results Framework: Objective 1
New and existing investments for Burkina Faso and Niger
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12. OFDA & USAID K
co-funded water program
APHIA + (DA-health)
Sequencing, Layering and Integrating in Kenya’s Arid Lands
WFP/FFP FFA
(HA)
OFDAARC
(HA) REGAL-IR
(DA - FTF)
REGAL-AG Livestock
(DA - FTF)