RESILAC, Economic and socially inclusive recovery in Lake Chad

Four operational pillars

The RESILAC project aims to promote economic development, preserve social cohesion and provide institutional support to the authorities in Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad. This large-scale project is based on a multi-country, multi-sector and multi-stakeholder approach which aims to reinforce the humanitarian-development-peace triple nexus.

Jointly funded by the European Union (the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa) and the French Development Agency for a period of 4 years (2018-2022), RESILAC is implemented by an international consortium (Action Contre la Faim, the lead agency, CARE and Groupe URD) in partnership with CCFD – Terre Solidaire, Search For Common Ground, and local organisations in the four countries.

RESILAC is organised into four operational pillars with the following objectives:

• Pillar 1: reinforcing human capital, social cohesion and the collective and sustainable management of natural resources in the targeted territories;
• Pillar 2: promoting economic recovery in the targeted territories and increasing the resilience of the most vulnerable people, notably young people and women, through access to employment and intensive silvo-pastoral systems that are adapted to climate change;
• Pillar 3: promoting and consolidating actors in the targeted territories by encouraging dialogue and participation, and by reinforcing their capacities based on the competencies and roles of the different stakeholders;
• Pillar 4: producing knowledge to contribute to the quality of the project activities, and to inform the decisions made by local actors. The project aims to reinforce human capital, social cohesion and the collective, long-term management of natural resources in the targeted territories.

An innovative approach

RESILAC uses an agile management approach and includes a continuous monitoring, evaluation and learning mechanism via Pillar 4, Knowledge Management and Learning, for which Groupe URD is responsible. The objective of this mechanism is to provide an appropriate framework to monitor how the project evolves and to learn lessons continuously, while ensuring that the project respects the commitments of the Core Humanitarian Standard. It also aims to shed light on operational issues that emerge during the project through short-term knowledge production.