How to build resilience from the ground up

This event took place on January 18 2017 at the Overseas Development Institute, London, and was also streamed online.

You can now watch this event! The recording of the event can be found here.

‘Resilience’ features heavily in the new set of global frameworks, having been incorporated into the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the Sustainable Development Goals and the World Humanitarian Summit.

Building resilience will ensure that development efforts are not undermined by extreme climate events, but understanding how to do it the right way - particularly at the local level - is a complex undertaking.

What challenges and limitations do contexts affected by climate change, disasters and conflict present to building resilience? What investments are being made in vulnerable countries to build climate resilience and how do they work?

This event explores the combination of targeted interventions that can best manage risk and reduce vulnerability in order to increase capacities.

Chair: Razia Iqbal @raziaiqbal - Special correspondent and presenter, BBC News

Speakers:

• David Howlett - Senior Policy Adviser, Global Resilience Partnership
• Helen Young - Research Director for Nutrition, Livelihoods and Conflict, Tufts University
• John Twigg @johntwigg57 - Principal Research Fellow, ODI
• Isaac Gahungu - Programme Coordinator, Concern Worldwide (via videolink)
• Melq Gomes da Silva - BRACED IRISS Consortium Coordinator, South Sudan (via videolink)