Sustainable Livelihoods - Overview

Resilient livelihoods in the Philippines

Years of work on reducing disaster risks among high-risk communities in the Philippines are bearing fruit in terms of saving lives. Equal attention must be given to saving livelihoods in…

Reaching Resilience handbook 2.0

The handbook comprises a set of tools, enabling practitioners to look at dilemmas and issues from a grassroots perspective through a set of country documentaries. This handbook insists on the importance…

Increasing Resilience Guidance

CARE aims to strengthen poor people’s capacities to deal with shocks and stresses, manage risks, and transform their lives in response to new hazards and opportunities. CARE seeks to address…

7 steps in disaster risk reduction

The use of a landscape approach is gaining prominence as an approach to effectively reduce disaster risk, adapt to climate change and enhance community resilience. Based on the experience of…

Integrated Risk Management explained

Climate change and ecosystem degradation place new demands on disaster risk reduction approaches. We describe Integrated Risk Management (IRM) as an enhanced, holistic approach to increase community resilience by integrating…

Regina, a Timorese woman with a voice

It is widely believed that the overall development of a country depends on the maximum utilization of its people, both men and women. This means that women should actively participate…

CARE’s climate change & resilience platform

The impacts of climate change are already destroying livelihoods and aggravating economic, political, social, and environmental inequality. Without urgent action, this could make it impossible for poor and marginalized people…

Water: Not just an environmental issue

Increasing resilience by empowering people to take their lives in their own hands is a core part of CARE’s global work. For example, in our…

A journey for a thousand smiles

Disasters wipe out development progress and are being exacerbated by climate change, population growth, ecosystem degradation, and uncontrolled economic development. The poorest and the most vulnerable people are the hardest…

Gender-smart action on disaster risk reduction

Women can help lead efforts to reduce losses in disasters – if they get a chance. The impacts of disaster and climate change discriminate: women, men, girls and boys are…

Improving economic opportunities for youth

Young men and women in fragile settings want to get ahead in their lives and build a future, but they experience numerous obstacles, related to poverty, instability, and various forms…

Partner for Resilience policy checklist

This Integrated Risk Management (IRM) Policy checklist has been developed for Partners for Resilience (PfR) Alliance partners and their in-country counterparts. The aim of the checklist is to identify…

Resilient WASH systems in flood prone areas

This study explored the body of knowledge with regards to resilient techniques in WASH for flood-prone areas, and to prepare the technical basis for the evaluation of WASH projects developed…