Inclusion of the Most Vulnerable People in Resilience Programming

Annex 4: SomReP’s Description of their Activities

RESILIENCE DESCRIPTION
COMPONENT
Improved  Promote improved animal health services and related husbandry practices
adaptive  Improve access to markets and value addition for selected animal value chains
capacity  Improve access to markets and post-harvest handling (value addition) of selected crop

Improved value chains
absorptive  Promote good agricultural production practices for selected crop value chains
capacity  Strengthen the capacity of farmers to meet market requirements through improved

Eco-system quality and volume of production.
health  Strengthening commercial links between smallholder farmers and buyers.
improved  Promote business development services among HHs
 Link women, men & youth to vocational training opportunities and providing
Transformative
capacity attendance costs.
 Train agro - pastoralists on fodder production and storage and provide access to

storage facilities
 Train farmers in techniques for using more drought-tolerant or faster-maturing crop

varieties.
 Communities supported to develop own risk reduction processes
 Communities supported to develop own contingency resources tied to early warning

indicators
 Women, men & youth groups establish community managed savings & loans

schemes
 Self-help mechanisms strengthened and linked to early action system
 Accountability systems linked with Radio Ergo talk back programme
 Existing traditional and community based NRM strategies documented
 Intra-community dialogue and resource sharing promoted
 Communities maintain and improve natural resources through holistic rehabilitation
 Existing community NRM made accessible to the vulnerable during dry & drought

periods
 Community rangeland and water management processes developed and

implemented
 Capacity and training needs assessment of groups or institutions identified as key to

community management.
 Build the capacity of local government in leadership, governance and technical areas.
 Support formation of community-level interest groups (linked to district-level

cooperatives or other
 orgs) around processing of specific farm produce e.g. horticultural crops
 Train institutions to provide support to local pastoralists on mobility, splitting of

herds, promoting
 mixed herds, and emergency livestock off-take activities based on capacity

assessment findings
 Advocate for higher quality certification and veterinary services and boards.
 Establish or strengthen local institution(s)/authorities and processes for drought-

time NRM

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Annex 5: Examples of how different forms and categories of
vulnerability could be matched to different social
protection investments

Category of Form / Duration Transformative Form of Assistance Food Security
Vulnerability Cause SP Type Classification

Aged, Actual / Permanent Protective Cash Possibly food insecure- but
chronic Inherent  Welfare/ as function of inherent
illness, vulnerability
disabled, Safety Net
Indigent
Actual / Permanent Protective Cash or in-kind Possibly food insecure- but
Poor Single Inherent-  Welfare/ Cash as function of inherent
Mothers / situational Transient vulnerability
Pregnant Actual / Months/years Safety Net Medium term food
Lactating Situational insecurity
Very Poor Protective
Adults  Payments

Actual / Long-term Borderline – Economic Graduation Chronically acute food
Situational Years / Promotive / insecure population
Seasonal Protective Guaranteed labour or
UCT Chronically IPC Phase 2 (i.e.
Poor Adults Actual – Transient Promotive / Economic Graduation urban poor). Some will face
Potential / Months/years Periodic greater risks during
Poor Adults Situational Protective Guaranteed Labour extreme events
– or Transient (self-targeting)
Marginalised pathogenic Months/years Promotive /
Communities Actual / Periodic Economic Graduation Generally not a food
Poor Youth Pathogenic Transient Protective Guaranteed Labour security priority.
(self-targeting) Most vulnerable to famine
Actual / Promotive / Economic Graduation
Situational Transformative Not considered a food
Economic Graduation security priority – but will
Very Poor / Actual / Long-term Transformative determine future food
Poor insecure cohorts
Children Situational Not considered a food
security priority – but will
determine future food
insecure cohorts

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