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Promoting Resilient Livelihoods through Adaptive Social Protection: Lessons from 124 programmes in South Asia
Author(s) -
Davies Mark,
Béné Christophe,
Arnall Alexander,
Tanner Thomas,
Newsham Andrew,
Coirolo Cristina
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2013.00600.x
Subject(s) - livelihood , social protection , psychological intervention , disaster risk reduction , south asia , coping (psychology) , climate change , development economics , economic growth , agriculture , political science , business , environmental planning , environmental resource management , geography , economics , sociology , medicine , ecology , ethnology , archaeology , psychiatry , biology
Adaptive Social Protection refers to efforts to integrate social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA), the need for which is increasingly recognised by practitioners and academics. Relying on 124 agricultural programmes implemented in five countries in Asia, this article considers how these elements are being brought together, and explores the potential gains of these linkages. It shows that full integration is still relatively limited but that, when it occurs, it helps to shift the time horizon beyond short‐term interventions aimed at supporting peoples' coping strategies and/or graduation objectives, towards longer‐term interventions that can help promote transformation towards climate and disaster resilient livelihood options.