OCHA – January Humanitarian Bulletin Issue 36

Publication language
English
Pages
6pp
Date published
01 Jan 2015
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Development & humanitarian aid, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Forced displacement and migration, Response and recovery
Countries
Afghanistan
Organisations
Samuel Hall
Link
http://samuelhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/OCHA-January-Humanitarian-Bulle…

For the enthusiastic, “resilience” is a concept; for the cynical, it is a buzzword. For both, the question remains the same: how can aid actors turn it into humanitarian and development practice? According to UNDP, resilience is a “transformative process of strengthening the capacity of people, communities and countries to anticipate, manage, recover and transform from shocks”.