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Resilience from the ground up: how are local resilience perceptions and global frameworks aligned?
Author(s) -
Beauchamp Emilie,
Abdella Jennifer,
Fisher Susannah,
McPeak John,
Patnaik Hannah,
Koulibaly Papa,
Cissé Daouda,
Touré Mamadou,
Bocoum Aly,
Ndao Momath,
Deme Yacouba,
Gueye Bara
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/disa.12342
Subject(s) - resilience (materials science) , perception , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , occupational safety and health , suicide prevention , psychological resilience , injury prevention , environmental resource management , engineering , environmental science , psychology , environmental health , political science , medicine , materials science , social psychology , neuroscience , law , composite material
Numerous resilience measurement frameworks for climate programmes have emerged over the past decade to operationalise the concept and aggregate results within and between programmes. Proxies of resilience, including subjective measures using perception data, have been proposed to measure resilience, but there is limited evidence on their validity and use for policy and practice. This article draws on research on the Decentralising Climate Funds project of the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters programme, which supports communities in Mali and Senegal to improve climate resilience through locally controlled adaptation funds. It explores attributes of resilience from this bottom‐up perspective to assess its predictors and alignment with food security, as a proxy of well‐being. We find different patterns when comparing resilience and the well‐being proxy, illustrating that the interplay between the two is still unclear. Results also point to the importance of contextualising resilience, raising implications for aggregating results.