Finding Ways Together to Build Resilience: The Vulnerability and Risk Assessment methodology
Publication date
2016-01-15Keywords
AgricultureFood security
Livelihoods
Climate change adaptation
Resilience
Vulnerability
Risk
Social groups
Gender
Development
Landscape
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Oxfam GBDocument type
Guidelines and toolkitsDescription
Oxfam's Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (VRA) tool develops a holistic, landscape-wide understanding of vulnerability and links up actors across various levels of governance to jointly identify and analyse root causes of vulnerabilities for distinct social groups and later design programmes and risk reduction initiatives accordingly, ensuring that they are equitable, gender-sensitive and effective.
Attention to historical and evolving power dynamics is fully embedded into the design of the VRA, primarily through the convening of a Knowledge Group to inspire and drive the analysis.
The VRA methodology has been implemented by Oxfam and its partners in twelve countries and by other aid and research organizations, such as the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the University of Cape Town and the University of Botswana.
Read more about the VRA.