Focus area

Inclusive Resilience

Our resilience agenda addresses the ability of households, communities and institutions to prepare for shocks, protect essential services and recover their livelihoods.

It connects disaster risk management and climate adaptation with economic recovery and social inclusion, so that recovery reaches the people most often left out of it.

What we do

Typical activities

Risk and vulnerability assessments, preparedness planning and early warning arrangements
Research and programme design on livelihoods, displacement, social protection and climate adaptation
Institutional capacity development and analysis of financing options for preparedness and recovery

Related assignments

Inclusive Resilience in practice

2024Inclusive Resilience

Urban resilience and community participation

Client: Banadir Regional Administration
With support from: World Bank financing

Examined how urban investments and service decisions respond to community priorities. Supported inclusive consultation and reviewed local participation and feedback arrangements, with attention to displacement, flood exposure and access to services in underserved neighbourhoods.

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Outputs

Community needs assessment
Consultation framework
Inclusion recommendations and feedback monitoring tools

2023Inclusive Resilience

Disaster preparedness and institutional coordination

Client: Puntland Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management
With support from: WFP

Reviewed institutional coordination, information flows and readiness arrangements for drought and flooding. Facilitated planning sessions and scenario exercises to clarify responsibilities, identify gaps and connect community risk information with institutional decisions.

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Outputs

Preparedness capacity review
Draft contingency planning tools
Coordination recommendations and exercise learning report

2020Inclusive Resilience

Community service continuity and risk communication

Client: Ministry of Health and Human Services
With support from: UNICEF

Studied how households access essential health information and education during disruption. Identified barriers affecting vulnerable groups, reviewed feedback mechanisms and developed practical communication and service continuity measures with public institutions and community representatives.

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Outputs

Service access assessment
Communication guidance
Community feedback tools and continuity recommendations

2019Inclusive Resilience

Displacement and host community resilience assessment

Client: Banadir Regional Administration
With support from: IOM

Assessed the needs of displaced households and host communities, including access to services, livelihoods and local decision making. Examined relationships between communities and identified options for area-based recovery that reduce exclusion and support social cohesion.

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Outputs

Area assessment
Stakeholder and service mapping
Recommendations for inclusive local recovery planning

2017Inclusive Resilience

Drought impacts, livelihoods and community coping study

Client: Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation
With support from: FAO Somalia

Examined how drought affects household livelihoods, market access and community coping practices, comparing pastoral, farming and displaced households, including implications for tensions over natural resources and the targeting of recovery support.

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Outputs

Household vulnerability study
Livelihood recovery options
Briefing on links between resource pressures and conflict

Sectors that connect our priorities

Local governance
Agriculture and natural resources
Water and the environment
Employment
Education
Health
Social protection

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We work with government institutions, UN agencies, development partners and civil society on commissioned research, dialogue and capacity strengthening.