Research reports and studiesSeptember 2020Leigh Mayhew, Florence Pichon, Sarah Opitz-Stapleton and Rebecca NadinComplex risks.Designing, implementing and monitoring policies and programmes for sustainable development is particularly challenging in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. Against this underlying fragility, regional to global threats including climate change, geopolitical instability, pandemics and financial volatility interact to generate complex and dynamic risks and trade-offs. International or national policies or programmes are often response-driven and frequently focus on one set of threats and risks to the exclusion of the broader context. Such risk perceptions, and priorities for managing risks, might not be effective in building lasting peace or promoting sustainable, equitable and resilient livelihoods and development: instead, a risk-informed approach is required. This report builds on its predecessor – Risk-informed development: from crisis to resilience – to inform the potential evolution of proposed or existing policies through case study applications of a risk-informed development (RID) approach. The approach was used for systematically assessing multiple, simultaneous threats and their interactions with policies, as well as potential trade-offs from policies, in two contexts: Myanmar and Niger.Read the research In pursuit of resilience: assessing threats and trade-offs for risk-informed development in Myanmar and NigerDocumentpdfRelated Climate change, conflict and fragility: an evidence review and recommendations for research and actionThis report looks at the evidence on the links between violent conflict and climate-related hazards, disasters and natural resources.Research reports and studies10 June 2020 Risk-informed approaches to humanitarian funding: using risk finance tools to strengthen resilienceHow pre-arranged financing can help to mitigate disaster impacts by supporting early action and response.Research reports and studies5 May 2020 Risk-informed development: from crisis to resilienceHow development can become a vehicle to reduce complex risk, avoid creating risks and build resilience.Research reports and studies29 May 2019Double vulnerability: the humanitarian implications of intersecting climate and conflict riskThis paper summarises current knowledge and analysis of the interactions between climate and conflict.Working and discussion papers21 March 2019See more:resiliencedisaster risk reductionforestsfragile statesjobs and livelihoodsconflict and violenceMyanmarNiger
