Partners for Resilience or PfR, is an Alliance of fiveNetherlands based humanitarian, development and environmental organizations who joined together to reduce the impact of natural hazards on vulnerable communities. The five Netherlands-based organizations are CARE, Cordaid, Netherlands Red Cross, Red Cross/ Red Crescent Climate Centre and Wetlands International is working towards the integration of disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation (CCA) and ecosystem management and restoration (EMR) in its work.
As PfR, we believe in our vision of resilience that puts communities at the centre by empowering them to strengthen their livelihoods; it connects disciplines by using the combined strength of organizations working in partnership; it expands their focus by encompassing wider ecosystems and considering wider timescales; it connects humanitarian and development focus.
In Southeast Asia, PfR was implemented in identified communities in Indonesia and the Philippines. Implement from 2011 to 2015, in Indoneisa the main areas were two islands in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province — Flores and Timor Islands. Care and Cordaid worked in Timor with their implementing local partners, namely, CIS Timor, and Bina Swadaya Konsultan (BSK) and Yayasan Bina Tani Sejahtera (YBTS) respectively. In these areas, the communities faced drought and landslides, thus the program has endeavoured help communities adapt to changing rain patterns and restore the ecosystems with a focus on improving community livelihoods.