Building Resilience in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts

THE CHALLENGE

More than two billion people live in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts — where nation states are often unable to deliver essential public services and the humanitarian system remains ill-equipped to produce durable change. In these settings, exposure to disaster can push already-precarious communities even further into extreme poverty and vulnerability.

THE APPROACH

- Fieldwork in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Sierra Leone, and Niger in partnership with Concern Worldwide

- Case studies with GOAL Global on food system resilience in Syria, early warning systems in Honduras, and waste management in Sierra Leone

- Review of disaster risk programs and government-civil society cooperation in three fragile cities

- Social network analysis of disaster risk reduction policy and implementation networks

- Analysis of Sendai Framework alignment with fragility and conflict

- Webinar series on resilience building in fragile and conflict-affected contexts

THE OUTCOME

Set of practical tools, strategies, and policy guidance for building community and systems resilience in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected settings spanning early warning, food security, urban risk, and disaster governance.

Further reading

Practitioner approaches to measuring community resilience: The analysis of the resilience of communities to disasters toolkit International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Delivering the Promise of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts (FCAC): A Case Study of the NGO GOAL’s Response to the Syria Conflict Progress in Disaster Science

Informality, violence, and disaster risks: Coproducing flood and landslide early warning systems with communi ties in info rmal and precarious urban settlements in Honduras Frontiers in Climate

Interna tional humanitarian narratives of disasters, crises and indigeneity Disasters

Hybrid governance of disaster management in Freetown, Monrovia, and Dar es Salaam Disasters

Participatory risk network analysis: A tool for disaster reducti on practitioners International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Disaster risk reduction is not ‘everyone's business’: Evidence from three countries International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

From Crisis to Resilience Webinar Series GOAL Global

Risk Technopolitics in Freetown Slums: Why Community Based Disaster Management Is No Silver Bullet In Critical Disaster Studies: University of Pennsylvania Press

How do we improve urban early warning and early action for food security? UNDRR Expert Voices

Four strategies to reduce disaster risk in fragile and conflict affected contexts UNDRR Expert Voices