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SWEDISH MISSION COUNCIL RESILIENCE WORKSHOP

    Tuesday 13th March; Lessons Learnt

Resilience capacities are cultural.  They are difficult to define and even more difficult to measure. There is need to think outside the box when coming up with results frameworks

Absorb  ⇒        adapt ⇒             Transform

What capitals can support resilience? And how are they interconnected with each other?

The capitals are;

1.      Human
2.      Natural
3.      Social
4.      Physical
5.      Financial
6.      Institution

MEMBER ORGANISATION GROUP REFLECTION- IAS 

Ketema; IAS Country Director- Ethiopia
IAS is unique in its approach to resilience- in terms of drilling and the Tharaka irrigation project

Bernard; IAS Project coordinator- Tharaka, Kenya
Staff exchange visits in similar thematic areas project locations should be organised in order to increase knowledge 


 Resilience Cafe; Cross-Cutting Issues

Humanitarian act; Notes
  •          There is a clear difference between relief/humanitarian and development
  •         There is a need for creating platforms to facilitate easy transition from humanitarian in to development
  •         There is  need for a liaison between humanitarian and development
  •       There is  need for mitigation measures in the transition from relief into development
  •         Need for education for communities with regard to transition from relief into development
  •          Need to understand overlap between relief and development
  •          Use of faith-based organization as a body of evidence
  •        There is a need of   change in the mindset among donors – keeping an open-mind


Gender; Notes
  •          Gender is reactive rather than proactive
  •          Power reflects gender equality rather than numbers


      Environment and climate change; Notes
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  •          Hold the institutions in place accountable (lobbying and advocacy)
  •          Teach younger generations  proper environmental practices



Religion; Notes

  •           Religious leaders should be held accountable for their actions
  •      Power by religious leaders is a good tool to   be used by organizations to impact the               community 
  •      Extremists and religion- There should be a value- based approach running concurrently with rights-   based approach 


     Wednesday  14th March ; Lessons Learnt 
  • Embracing complexity is a major factor for resilience
  • Complexity demands different ways of working

Complexity;
  •         Is unpredictable
  •         Is non-linear
  •              Requires  self-organization


Dealing with complexity requires;
  1.         Sensitive listening to early signs of changes
  2.          Listening to different perspectives
  3.          Action research approaches and getting real-time data

Adaptive management- This is the concept of designing projects as a component of learning

 Adaptive management requires;

  •   An adaptive system
  •   An adaptive mind-set
  •   Embracing sense-making



 ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; IAS NOTES

  •        Improve internal communication with donors on changes accompanied by proper justifications
  •         Include adaptive management in organizational assessment


Monitoring for Resilience
Monitoring is the systemic collection, analysis and use of information from projects for 3 purposes namely;
  1.           Learning
  2.           Accounting- both internally and externally
  3.           Decision-making
  
Characteristics of a resilient community are based on the following;
  1.       Governance
  2.       Risk assessment
  3.           Knowledge and education
  4.           Risk management
  5.       Disaster management




   Thursday 15th March; Lessons Learnt


 Advocacy for DRR and improved resilience

Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction targets;
  •         Reduce mortality
  •       Reduce number of affected people
  •       Reduce economic loss
  •      Reduce damage to critical infrastructure
  •      Increase national and local DRR strategies
  •          Enhance international cooperation
  •      Increase availability and access, early warning and risk information



IAS DRR Advocacy; strengthening stakeholder’s knowledge in resilience by using Kenya and Ethiopia

Vision; A resilient society

Increasing resilience knowledge and advocate DRR among different stakeholders in order to bring about behavioral change reinforcing the implementation of policies

Actors; communities i.e. Tharaka and Borena, local government, other stakeholders (civil societies, NGOs, UN agencies)

Behavioral changes/ strategies;
  •          Research
  •         Awareness
  •          Exposure


Next steps 
  1.       Inception meeting
  2.       Finalization of Terms of Reference for the consultant/ researcher
  3.           Identification of researcher
  4.           Segregation of duties

     FRIDAY 16th March; Lessons Learnt

Moving to Action- Reflection and planning

The main value of resilience lies in its integrative nature, which facilitates greater collaboration between traditionally disparate groups and communities of practice

A community of practice is a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly

Organizational change is all about starting conversations and creating environments and tools that stimulate conversation


IAS Organizational Plans for Resilience
WHO
WHAT
WHEN
Resilience Research
Head office focal point/PM Ethiopia/ PM Kenya
1.      Finalize ToR
2.      Recruit researcher/consultant
3.      Draft report
4.      Final report
23rd March
15th April

15th July
15th August
Advocacy/ Awareness
Head office focal point/PM Ethiopia/PM Kenya
Influence key actors
1.      Communities
2.      Local government
3.      Other stakeholders (CBOs, NGOs, UN agencies)
Continual process
Capacity Development/adaptive Management (CCIs)
Head Office focal point/PM Ethiopia/PM Kenya
Training and workshops
September 2018 onwards
New connections
Head office focal point/PM Ethiopia/ PM Kenya
GNDR,  UNISDR, IGAD etc.
ASAP
Exposure
Head office focal point/PM Ethiopia/PM Kenya
Exchange visits between Borena and Tharaka
July and September

Cross cutting issues; priorities- Environment and climate change, gender, human-rights, Peace and conflict
AGORA Reflections
From Agora reflections, IAS has learnt a lesson to use blogging as monitoring and evaluation measure for effective communication and has created a blog; https://ias-resilience.blogspot.co.ke/ to showcase the IAS Resilience Research process

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