The
EU has released a proposal, “EU Approach to Resilience: Learning from FoodSecurity Crises,” to integrate resilience more deeply in their development and
humanitarian aid programs. The proposal
included four principles to guide EU in embedding resilience in their programs:
align EU support with recipient country priorities, support the development of
national resilience strategies, boost the flexibility of EU aid programs, and
elevate resilience in the list of aid priorities in countries facing recurrent
crises. Although it is important to
prioritize resilience in countries facing recurrent crises it is important to
evaluate the national resilience strategies and recipient country priorities
before jumping on board assuming they build resilience.
The
proposal stresses that “building resilience is a long-term effort that needs to
be firmly embedded in national policies and planning” and that sustainable
development needs to focus on the root causes of crises rather than the results
of crises. This makes Food Security,
Climate Change Adaptation, and Disaster Risk Reduction priority programs for
strengthening resilience.
The
proposal defines resilience as “the ability of an individual, a household, a
community, a country or a region to withstand, to adapt, and to quickly recover
from stresses and shocks.” The EU is
building on their experience in addressing crises in the Horn of Africa and the
Sahel. The EU also stresses the need to
incorporate women in building resilience in households and communities affected
by crises.
Critical thinking: staying on track (an example)
ReplyDelete• Overarching analytic framework: structure, relationships, interactions
• Resilience: capacity/capability of system to bounce back, whether unit is individual or collective
• Policy outcome/impact: human well-being, more democracy
• Imagining community: community starts with some notion of human well being; poverty is antithetical to well being. Poverty traps are a constant risk to well being. That is poverty interacts with other factors to depress other indicators of well being, including population health. There are significant interactive effects between poverty and other social indicators.
• A possible way of thinking about cases: poverty traps; (ill)health status; food system in Sub-Saharan Africa
Different versions of same source (note yet another connection to scholars/writers associated w/Cornell U).
General topic: Human Health/Well-being
• Population health; food systems; poverty/inequality
• Policy and distribution risk/burdens
• The African Food System and its Interaction with Human Health and Nutrition
• Pinstrup-Andersen, Per
o The Food System and Its interaction with Human Health and Nutrition
• Pinstrup-Andersen, Per, ed. 2010. The African Food System and Its Interactions with Human Health and Nutrition. First. Cornell University Press.
o Ebook version through UT
Sources on health workforce, from WHO...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.who.int/hrh/documents/migration/en/index.html
You might now refine your outline. Do so by reflecting on your recent, deeper thinking about the three key terms/ideas you’ve identified: resilience, development, and sustainability. (I’d probably add capability/capacity to the list.)
ReplyDeleteWhat recurring themes, principles, issues, are you finding in the literature, and class discussions that have helped you refine your own thinking? Can you begin drafting your own working definitions based on what you are learning as you listen-in on ‘conversations’ about the ideas you’re finding in the literature? You also want to think about definitions based on larger scale issues like well-being, ‘community’ as a bounded system, and the role/obligations of an LBJ’s thinkers and doers.