Resilient risk governance: Experience from the Sahel and Horn of Africa
This report examines the way local risk governance systems and institutional arrangements mediate peoples' access to services that minimize the impact of shocks and stresses on people's lives and livelihoods. The paper offers a conceptual framework for resilient risk governance and a way forward for researchers and practitioners to build a greater body of evidence on its role in delivering resilience outcomes.
Greater integration between the national scientific institutions that produce climate and weather information and local, informal institutions, which are more easily accessed, appears to be critical to building resilience. Polycentricism and diversity of institutions, as principles of risk governance, would seem to be particularly important for the delivery of climate services in resilience programmes.
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