World Vision UK is promoting resilience by ensuring that development programme designs, implementation and monitoring and evaluations systems are informed by holistic vulnerability and capacity assessments. World Vision UK’s approach to resilience is based on bringing together three well established development approaches: Conflict Sensitivity, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Climate Change Adaptation. Underpinning this approach is ensuring that development programming is based on participatory assessments that reflect and make sense of the complexity of the programme context and identify drivers of vulnerability across a wide stakeholder group. This resource highlights the importance of Participatory Learning Action and the specific tools used in conflict sensitivity disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation. Unpacking the tools used by the three communities of practice - peacebuilding, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation - presents an opportunity for practitioners to combine their approaches during programme assessment and to be more holistic in facilitating community resilience. To support holistic vulnerability and capacity assessments for resilience programming, a range of commonly used processes and toolkits from the three communities of practice were reviewed and the specific tools within each identified. The tools are organised into six categories: hazards and trends, livelihood, power, root causes, scenario and action planning. Guiding questions from the conflict sensitivity, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation approaches are provided. Using a range of tools, communities and development practitioners can develop a holistic understanding of the key drivers of conflict, risks and vulnerability with this streamlined approach. Examples from World Vision Honduras using such tools in redesigning its development programmes are shared.
