What does « Resilient Livelihood » mean ?

1. Whatdoes « ResilientLivelihood » mean? Source: Practical Action

2. ResilientLivelihood …. And “resilient livelihood”? A resilient livelihood is one that enables people to anticipate, organize for and adapt to change – good or bad, sudden or slow – and plan for the future. In general, the more options people have, the more opportunities exist for them to improve their livelihood. Specificstrategiesinclude: Investing in education for moving one familymember or more into non-farm jobs; Migration to access jobs that are lessaffected by flood, drought, etc.; Developing non-farmactivitiesthatcomplement agricultural sources or replace them; Invest in forms of infrastructure thatreducevulnerability to floods, droughts, etc. (groundwater irrigation, refuge location, seedstorage, etc.); Participation in cooperatives, self-help groups, etc. to accessfinancialresources to mitigate the shock; Etc. What does the term “resilience” mean? Resilience is most often defined as the ability of individuals, communities and states and their institutions to absorb and recover from shocks (conflict, disease outbreak, flood, earthquake, cyclone, landslide, political crisis, etc.) whilst positively adapting and transforming their structures and means for living in the face of long-term changes and uncertainty. Building resilience in a developing country context therefore means enhancing the capacity of individuals, communities and states to absorb, Adapt and transform to the shocks and risks that they should normally be expected to deal with. (source: OECD) • For further information on thisthematic, pleaserefer to: • FAO – ResilientLivelihoods/DRR for food and nutrition security: http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/i2540e/i2540e00.pdf • Livelihoodresilience and adaptative capacity: a criticalconceptualreview (attached document)