Resilience across mandates

23/02/2013

What is the connection between poverty reduction, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation? Over the years development organisations have evolved from thinking and working in various “silos”: infrastructure, HIV-AIDS, education, etc., to a more holistic approach that considers the needs of communities and opportunities to scale-up our impacts from local to national or even regional levels. How can apprehending action from a resilience perspective contribute to improving the quality of aid?