Day 1: Tuesday, 20 June 2023
9:00 – 10:30 SAST | Welcome: Opening Plenary | Hall D
The Opening Plenary will see a series of short provocations from different perspectives – funding, policy, academia, practice, and the private sector. This will be followed by a moderated panel discussion that will set the scene for the key themes and questions the Forum is seeking to address.
Hall D (in-person) / Plenary Room (virtual)
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Dr Nathanial Matthews, Global Resilience Partnership
Christine Gottshalk, USAID
Dr Shehnaaz Moosa, SouthSouthNorth
Dina Esposito, USAID
Dr Michael Okoroafor, McCormick & Company
10:30 – 11:30 SAST | Coffee Break & Facilitated Networking
11:30 – 12:30 SAST | Plenary World Cafe | Hall D
Interactive introductions to the five tracks: people and households communities, urban systems, socio-ecological systems, and market systems and value chains
Hall D (in-person) / Plenary Room (virtual)
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12:30 – 13:30 SAST | Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 SAST | Parallel Tracks: What – Latest evidence
People and Household Track: Financial inclusion
Hall D (in-person) / Room 01 (virtual)
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This session will explore the latest evidence on the critical role of financial inclusion and transformation as sources of resilience for households across contexts, as well as the role of formal and informal institutions and approaches in enabling financial inclusion and transformation.
Dr Kelvin Shikuku, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Wyanie Bright, USAID Kuza
Dr Paswel Marenya, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Melis Guven, World Bank
Communities Track: Communities as users and producers of evidence
Room 11 (in-person) / Room 02 (virtual)
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The role of communities as users and producers of evidence is thereby still being clarified within ongoing efforts that aim to find a common ground between top-down approaches that need high resolution data, and bottom-up approaches which might use and produce knowledge and information differently from mainstream evidence-building efforts. Among all of these, we recognise that evidence, knowledge, and information needs of communities should be at the heart of resilience evidence and measurement.
This session will take stock of the evidence needs of communities while exploring top-down and bottom-up approaches. We will delve deeper into ongoing efforts that aim to recognise the plurality of evidence bases and ways of knowing and being.
Dr Hannington Odame, Centre for African Bio-Entrepreneurship (CABE)
Cinderella Ndlovu, Green Hut Trust
Dr Tulika Narayan, Mathematica
Kazi Jawoad Hussain, iDE
Lisa McNamara, Climate & Development Knowledge Network
Urban Systems Track: Informality, rights, conflict and displacement as key evidence areas for urban resilience
Room 07 (in-person) / Room 03 (virtual)
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Informality, conflict, and displacement all have a significant impact on urban communities and their rights, posing unique challenges to resilience building efforts. This session will explore the latest evidence regarding cities and urban systems in the context of informality, conflict, and displacement. We will discuss how urban resilience can be strengthened while ensuring just and equitable outcomes for urban inhabitants.
Dr Aditya Bahadur, Adaptation Research Alliance / IIED
Eric Dickson, World Bank
Joseph Muturi, Kenya Urban Poor Federation
Erina Machoko, USAID
Beth Chitekwe-Biti, Slum Dwellers International
Socio-ecological Systems Track: Social-ecological systems (SES) resilience for reshaping sustainable development
Room 08 (in-person) / Room 04 (virtual)
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This session will take stock of recent advances in SES resilience science and practice that provide insights on the attributes and types of interventions that can underpin truly resilient sustainable development that is integrated with our life-supporting biosphere.
Dr Nathanial Matthews, Global Resilience Partnership
Dr Gina Ziervogel, African Climate & Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
Beth Turner, Nature Based Solutions Initiative (pre-recorded)
Market Systems and Value Chains Track: Strengthening market resilience: The importance of understanding different perspectives
Room 09 (in-person) / Room 05 (virtual)
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A market systems approach to strengthening sources of resilience involves the use of business models and market forces to address development and humanitarian challenges more sustainably and at scale. This session will explore the sources of market resilience and a market systems approach to understanding what to measure.
Through this discussion, participants will gain an understanding of how a market systems approach can be strengthened to promote sustainable and scalable solutions to development challenges. The session will explore examples from different stakeholders to highlight how this approach can be utilized to address shocks and stresses faced by marginalized communities.
Margie Brand, Vikara Institute
Dr Michael Okoroafor, McCormick & Company
Jennifer Abdella, Near East Foundation
Jesper Hörnberg, Global Resilience Partnership
Mike Field, Vikara Institute
14:30 – 15:30 SAST | How – Latest methodological advancements
People and Household Track: Shock Responsive Social Protection
Hall D (in-person) / Room 01 (virtual)
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This session will explore how governments and other stakeholders are generating and using the evidence on the role of shock responsive social protection and associated financing mechanisms to inform investment decisions. It will also explore the centrality of shock responsive social protection for managing shocks and stresses that go beyond the capacity of households to manage on their own, including during Covid-19.
Dr Stephen Devereux, Institute of Development Studies
Bessie Msusa and Paul Chipeta, Government of Zambia
Mohammed Almenfi, World Bank
Lorraine Njue, African Risk Capacity Group
Communities Track: Innovative approaches for Community- led evidence production: The role of arts-based and participatory methods
Room 11 (in-person) / Room 02 (virtual)
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This session will focus on the “How” of resilience evidence, capturing a wide variety of methods that are different from the usual Monitoring and Evaluation approaches. It will unpack the relevance of methods such as citizen science, arts-based approaches, and games for adaptation and resilience. These approaches have not necessarily been created with adaptation and resilience in mind, and are drawn from various disciplines including conservation biology, environmental justice and rights-based approaches for adaptive management of commons.
Rhea Shah, Aranya Design
Nabeel Petersen, Interfer
Dr Elizabeth Bryan, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Sayee Giridhar, National Conservation Foundation
Lucia Scodanibbio, Climate & Development Knowledge Network
Urban Systems Track: Understanding Urban Resilience: The roles of citizen science and action research in addressing perceived data scarcity
Room 07 (in-person) / Room 03 (virtual)
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This session will feature key innovative approaches and methods (such as citizen science, action research) that can help address the perceived data scarcity that many urban decision-makers face. Through this interactive discussion, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how these methods can be used to enhance urban planning, investment, policy-making, and decision-making processes.
Dr Aditya Bahadur, Adaptation Research Alliance / IIED
Eric Dickson, World Bank
Joseph Muturi, Kenya Urban Poor Federation
Erina Machoko, USAID
Beth Chitekwe-Biti, Slum Dwellers International
Socio-ecological Systems Track: Social-ecological systems resilience: Exploring approaches to understanding and strengthening resilience capacities across scales and with diverse actor groups
Room 08 (in-person) / Room 04 (virtual)
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This session focuses on profiling and then surfacing additional approaches for understanding and mobilizing methods that can strengthen various resilience capacities including adaptive, absorptive and anticipatory capacities that can lead to more transformative outcomes and benefits for people and nature. Importantly it seeks to feature those approaches that incorporate ways to better understand equity and justice implications of enhancing resilience in different landscapes, with diverse actors and across different scales.
Claire Homewood, CareCreative
Dr Stephen Woroniecki, Nature-based Solutions Initiative
Prof Sheona Shackleton and Dr Nadine Methner, African Climate & Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
Market Systems and Value Chains Track: Analyzing value chains as a source of resilience: Methods and applications
Room 09 (in-person) / Room 05 (virtual)
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This session focuses on analyzing market systems as a source of resilience and the methods applied to generate, analyze, and learn from evidence. Through this discussion, participants will gain an understanding of how to use a market systems approach and the methods used to study its impact on communities facing shocks and stresses.
We will explore the different methods applied to generate evidence and analyze market systems to promote sustainable and scalable solutions to development challenges. Additionally, we will discuss how exploring market systems can build the evidence base and how it can be used to address shocks and stresses in local-based projects and communities.
Margie Brand, Vikara Institute
Lina Henao, iDE Mozambique
Elizabeth Farmer, CARE Ethiopia
Luca Russo, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 | Plenary Sharing back & Sensemaking | Hall D
We will bring together the insights and learnings from the five tracks to make sense of the diverse ideas and perspectives that have been shared regarding the latest resilience evidence as well as the latest methodological advancements. Attendees will be invited to engage in a collective sensemaking exercise to explore connections, commonalities, and divergences across the tracks.
Hall D (in-person) / Plenary Room (virtual)
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17:30 – 20:00 | Welcome Reception & Networking Drinks | Hall C
All attendees are invited to unwind and connect with fellow attendees after a day of insightful discussions. We encourage you to come along and make new connections, catch up with old friends, and enjoy the warm hospitality of Cape Town.
This session will not be broadcast online.