Toward Resilience : A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

Toward Resilience is an introductory resource for development and humanitarian practitioners working with populations at risk of disasters and other impacts of climate change. It is aimed at program management, advisory and technical staff of development and humanitarian organizations, and seeks to strengthen staff understanding of the basic approaches and principals that can be applied to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation initiatives. It also provides practical guidance on how to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into the program cycle and adapt activities to a range of contexts and development and humanitarian sectors.This guide includes examples from practitioners’ experiences that illustrate good practice and learning, and suggests tools and resources that practitioners find useful. This book is a core resource developed as part of the Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) project. The ECB Project is a collaborative effort comprised of six agencies: CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, Save the Children and World Vision International.

Marilise Turnbull has 20 years’ field, management and advisory experience in the humanitarian and development sectors, in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Charlotte Sterrett has extensive experience working with NGOs and communities developing organisational strategies and policies relevant to climate change.

Amy Hilleboe is the Guide’s Project Manager. She is CRS’ Senior Technical Advisor for Disaster Risk Reduction and has been working with DRR programs for more than 16 years.