Resilience Building and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

HEKS has established resilience building as a cross-cutting issue in its work and has been active on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in the rural context for many years now. Recent initiatives that FAKT supported are:

• Monitoring on DRR and CCA: Within the existing monitoring system, a concept for key indicators was elaborated in order to improve the monitoring of DRR and to better link climate risk and vulnerability assessments to data collection for monitoring.
• Conflict transformation and DRR: HEKS is exploring the linkages between the two issues under the resilience concept through an analysis of overlaps and gaps in existing concepts and approaches. This includes a better linking of climate risk and vulnerability with conflict assessments.

The consultancy of FAKT also included the support of HEKS activities as a member of the Swiss NGO DRR Platform. This mainly covered the following activities where HEKS is involved:

• Development of an e-learning course on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA).This course was developed as a self-paced e-learning course. It is particularly addressing practitioners new to the fields of DRR and CCA. It is based on the broad expertise of the Swiss NGO DRR Platform and its partners. The four course modules cover the key concepts of DRR and CCA, working methods as well as including practical case studies of different geographic contexts.
• A collection of good practice case studies for the Global Database on Sustainable Land Management under the World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) where HEKS has contributed case studies from Niger and Cambodia.