POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
These recommendations are addressed to players with direct influence on policies and programs related to resilience. Civil society and media should monitor and evaluate the use of the resilience lens in the actions of these key players and collect evidence on outcomes.
Recommendations for the International Development, Humanitarian, and Donor Communities Resilience is not a panacea. Its definition and application will involve choices. While most such choices should work for the poor- est and most vulnerable, some may not. The international develop- ment and donor communities need to be clear about definitions, try to find a consensus with others, and spell out why a resilience approach will allow them to advance their respective development and humanitarian goals. Once they have agreed upon a joint vision for resilient policy and programming in a specific context, donors should align with it.
1. A resilience lens shines a bright light on the missed opportunities and the sometimes counterproductive separation of the worlds of development and humanitarian assistance. The institutional, finan- cial, and conceptual walls separating the worlds of development and humanitarian assistance within donor and UN agencies need to be broken down to achieve greater synergies in strategies and imple- mentation plans.
2. Broader policy coherence for development is also a key requirement for efforts to strengthen resilience. Policies that undermine resil- ience must be revised. To foster resilience to undernutrition, poli- cies should be designed with the intention of improving nutrition outcomes and realizing the right to adequate food.
3. To support a pro-poor resilience approach, create multiannual, flex- ible mechanisms and funding that facilitate multisectoral approach- es to tackling chronic food and nutrition crises and addressing the structural causes of food and nutrition insecurity at the regional and country level.
4. Communicate to key stakeholders and to the wider public the poten- tial cost-effectiveness of building resilience and improving food and nutrition security, particularly in fragile contexts.
5. Support a coordinated approach to monitoring resilience-building measures in different contexts and building an evidence base on the impact and effectiveness of such measures. As part of this effort, indicators of resilience need to capture adequate information at appropriate times and frequencies.
2013 Global Hunger Index | Chapter 05 | Policy Recommendations
> Invest in real time, high-frequency data collection at different lev- els (individual, household, community, environment) and among different socioeconomic and ethnic groups.
> Establish sentinel sites in the countries that are most shock- prone, poor, and dependent on humanitarian assistance, where data on nutrition, food security, and coping behaviors could be collected every one to three months.
6. Review the effectiveness of early warning systems in order to iden- tify and address the key institutional, especially political, obstacles to early action. Put in place policy responses to the lessons learned from such a review or reviews.
7. Donors should direct more development funding to disaster risk reduc- tion and resilience-building interventions, including better-targeted productive safety nets, with either clear percentage targets or other funding weighting criteria applied.1
costs in fragile and conflict-affected states need to be factored in. 1
This recommendation is also promoted by the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post- 2015 Development Agenda in their report A New Global Partnership (United Nations 2013b).
Capacity-building interventions and
Rose Akech Lira District, Uganda
“I and my family were affected by drought in the first rainy season of 2013.... The negative effect of drought on my family was huge, especially on my children.... It is becoming increasingly difficult to provide for food and pay school fees. I have struggled to pay school fees for the first and second term of 2013, and I fore- see the challenge of higher school fees in the future....”
“I think that all households should adopt the practice of planting drought-resistant crops such as cassava, sorghum, and peas to minimize droughts’ effects in the short to medium term. And I think that the government and NGOs should provide simple and affordable rain- harvesting and irrigation technologies to farmers, as this would help farmers to respond to such hazards.”
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