1. Resilience concept of FAO Experiences of FAOSY in resilience building

2. Content
FAO main goals,
Resilience concept
Achievements in resilience building
Conclusions, lessons learned and recommendations

3. FAO Goals Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
Make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable
Reduce rural poverty
Enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems
Increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises

4. The concept of resilience makes sense only when applied to a system
A system is a group of interacting components, operating together for a common purpose, capable of reacting as a whole to external stimuli: it is affected directly by its own outputs and has a specified boundary based on the inclusion of all significant feedback. Source: Spedding (1988)
Examples of systems

5. Resilience concept (FAO definition)
Resilience is the ability to prevent disasters and crises, and to anticipate, absorb, accommodate or recover from them in a timely, efficient and sustainable manner.

6. Examples of systems in food security analysis

7. Factors that make households resilient:
Income and access to food assets such as land and livestock
Social safety nets such as food assistance and social security
Access to basic services such as water, health care, electricity, etc.
Households' adaptive capacity which is linked to education and diversity of income sources
The stability of all these factors over time

8. Increasing the resilience of agricultural livelihoods to threats and crises
FAO believes that countries, communities and individuals, together with development and humanitarian actors, can build livelihoods that are resilient to disasters and crises.
Increasing the resilience of agricultural livelihoods is a powerful lever to reach the Sustainable Development Goal pledge “to leave no one behind”.

9. The resilience concept is related in different ways to the concepts of stability, sustainability and vulnerability.
The resilience of a household is also strictly related to its livelihood strategies.
Vulnerability
Stability
Resilience
Sustainability
Livelihoods

10. Resilience measurement at FAO
RIMA (Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis) is an innovative quantitative approach that  estimates resilience to food insecurity
RIMA-II answers questions such as: Who is most in need? Where should investment focus? Which dimensions of resilience need to be supported? To what extent have interventions increased or decreased target populations’ resilience?

11. FAO- EU Partnership on resilience building
Experiences of FAOSY in resilience building
Strengthening the resilience of crisis-affected people and their host communities for food and nutrition security in Syria
FAO- EU Partnership on resilience building

12. Project locations

13. Alternative resources of energy Water management
Achievements to date
Establishment of 7 technical working groups for planning, programming and implementation purposes:
Crop production:
Livestock production
Alternative resources of energy
Water management
Nutrition sensitive agriculture
Rural employment and income generating activities
Risk governance and institutional capacity building

14. Achievements to date
Improving children’s and communities knowledge of nutritional values of food and the importance to include safe and nutrition food to their diet to run a healthy and productive life through the establishment of schools gardens in 5 governorates

15. Achievements to date
Establishment of 30 biogas units in 5 governorates- a model of self sufficient farming system: environmentally friendly and economic source of energy for production and consumption
12 June 2017
STRENGTHENING THE RESILIENCE OF CRISIS-AFFECTED PEOPLE AND THEIR HOST COMMUNITIES FOR FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY IN SYRIA

16. Achievements to date
Rehabilitation of irrigation canals in Homs and Hama- productive assets for production

17. Achievements to date
The medicinal plant project in Al-kadmus, Tartous- alternative source of income for women headed household.

18. Achievements to date
The beekeeping project in 5 governorates

19. Achievements to date
Drought early warning system and food security information management capacity of national counterparts strengthened

20. Achievements to date
A Resilience Programming Network for good practices established:
Through Workshops with key stakeholders and communities: focusing on performance assessment, gathering of good practices and recommendations for future actions
Through organizing regular meetings for the TWGs
Through, launching a resilience bulletin on regular basis

21. Conclusions
Resilience building is possible only through partnerships – one organization cannot cover the full spectrum
Resilience building as a shift of paradigm from purely humanitarian interventions and medium term sustainable actions
Technical Working Groups as consultative mechanism among relevant stakeholders for resilience building

22. Thank you for your attention