Www.youthdeved.ie/sites/youthdeved.ie/files/NYCI_Bouncing_Back.pdf. Relevance of 'Resilience'? Resilience Handbook 2.0. Theory of Resilient, Systems Thinking. Resilience in protracted crises. ActionAid Paper on Resilience. Resisting the mantra of resilience. Resilience has many meanings LONDON, 15 October 2012 (IRIN) - Ten years ago, resilience was little spoken of within the aid community; now the word is everywhere.
Donors are demanding it, NGOs are mainstreaming it, and publications are promoting it. Policy makers - from climatologists to social theorists - see in resilience a more holistic and lasting solution to the world’s problems. But academics at two of Britain’s leading development institutions, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), are taking a cooler look at the concept and challenging the notion that resilience is always the most appropriate approach to aid. IRIN: Building resilience. Resilience-renaissance. EU to focus on building resilience to disaster among world's poorest. EU commissioner for humanitarian aid Kristalina Georgieva speaks at a consultation meeting on the Sahel food crisis earlier this year.
Photograph: Etienne Ansotte/EU The EU's emergency and development arms are to work together more closely to reduce the vulnerability of the poorest households to shocks from conflict, drought and other crises, and to tackle the underlying causes of food insecurity in regions such as the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. AGIR: Resilience in the Sahel. The conference participants from over 40 countries and several humanitarian agencies following agreement on the joint declaration; AGIR Sahel 18/06/2012 - There are 18 million people facing hunger and malnutrition across 8 countries of the Sahel region of West Africa.
This figure includes 1 million children who are exposed to severe malnutrition. This food crisis will peak in the coming weeks and many risk death if they do not receive humanitarian assistance.