Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

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    • The kind of context in which resilience is being built is very critical in determining how much time is required to build resilience to a particular shock faced by a community or household/individual. In contexts where state institutions are as good as inexistent and available resources are directed more towards lifesaving interventions, it’s important to embrace an incremental approach to building resilience to a specific shock. I refer here to specific shock because one can be resilience to one type of shock and remain very vulnerable to another. The incremental approach is one where one short projects short-term "temporal resilience" building outcome is built on by the follow on project. In contexts of chronic vulnerability like one of south Sudan and couple with weak governance structures, it definitely requires much more time and many more incremental steps to deal with prioritized shocks as compared to more stable contexts with good governance structures.