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Resilient Development Learning Package

17/10/2019

3 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This document outlines the approach and activities that comprise Oxfam’s Resilient Development Learning Package. This package has been designed to enable Oxfam Resilience Advisors to deliver experiential and embodied learning events on resilient development for Oxfam Country Office staff and partners globally. Oxfam Australia, supported by Oxfam’s Resilience Knowledge Hub, developed this Learning Package to […]

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Research report

Learning from Hindsight: Synthesis report on Oxfam resilience research

30/08/2017

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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What can we learn about resilience by examining completed resilience, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation projects? Oxfam conducted three such case studies in Bolivia, Colombia, and Fiji, looking at the conditions required for successful resilient development as well as issues around timing and duration. This synthesis report presents a summary of the three […]

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‘Disaster is Nature Telling Us how to Live Resiliently’: Indigenous disaster risk reduction, organizing, and spirituality in Tierradentro, Colombia

30/08/2017

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Seeking to gain knowledge about resilience, this case study considered a 2007-09 Red Cross preparedness project funded by the Disaster Preparedness European Community Humanitarian Office (DIPECHO). The project was implemented around the Nevado del Huila volcano in Colombia, in a largely rural area with a predominantly indigenous population. The findings and analysis point to the importance of listening to […]

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Addressing Water Shortages: A catalyst for more resilient development in Fiji

30/08/2017

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study draws on fieldwork in two communities in Fiji that participated in the 2002-05 Capacity Building to Enable the Development of Adaptation Measures in Pacific Island Countries (CBDAMPIC) project, one of the first adaptation projects in the Pacific that attempted to work at this community scale to build resilience to the longer-term impacts […]

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Building Resilience through Iterative Processes: Mainstreaming ancestral knowledge, social movements, and the making of sustainable programming in Bolivia

30/08/2017

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This case study takes a retrospective look at the 2010-11 Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG-ECHO) Small-Scale Disaster Project in La Paz and the context within which it took place. Our research found that absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities can be fostered by iterative development processes. It also demonstrated that disaster […]

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Resilient Development Learning Package

Learning from Hindsight: Synthesis report on Oxfam resilience research

‘Disaster is Nature Telling Us how to Live Resiliently’: Indigenous disaster risk reduction, organizing, and spirituality in Tierradentro, Colombia

Addressing Water Shortages: A catalyst for more resilient development in Fiji

Building Resilience through Iterative Processes: Mainstreaming ancestral knowledge, social movements, and the making of sustainable programming in Bolivia