This document has been prepared within the framework of the Preparedness and Resilience Working Group (PRWG) of the global food Security Cluster (gFSC) as part of its commitment to “Improve awareness-raising and ‘language building’ to increase common understanding of preparedness and resilience”.  With the technical lead of Welthungerhilfe and in collaboration with FAO, the document highlights key preparedness and resilience documents/webpages. 

Introductory statements

1. The different dimensions of Food Security (availability, access, utilization, stability) and its respective stakeholders provide the basis for preparedness and resilience building measures, the sectorial scope, and different intervention levels to be addressed by gFSC and FSC.
2. Livelihood systems are at the center of gFSC / FSC preparedness and resilience building efforts. This is in special consideration of their food systems (including growing, harvesting, storing, processing, packing, transforming, marketing, consuming and disposing of food) and in recognition that a food system and its components can vary in rural and urban contexts.
3. To provide guidance to FSC to facilitate the discussion on preparedness and resilience implies a humanitarian context and thus considers urgency and adequate type of preventive measures to avoid/reduce loss and damages of people and their livelihoods assets at risk or affected by a hazard.
4. gFSC / FSC ‘language building’ to increase common understanding of preparedness and resilience is in recognition of knowledge sharing and learning from global policy processes (such as the Sendai framework for DRR, Paris Agreement, World Humanitarian Summit, SDGs, etc.), existing initiatives and trends outlined by respective agents in the nexus of humanitarian and development systems.
5. Preparedness for response and recovery, including to respond faster and better is a critical part of increasing resilience if livelihoods to threats and crises.
6. Preparedness is an intrinsic yet distinct theme in DRR, required for both humanitarian and development actors.
7. Preparedness can reduce the potential impact on livelihoods of future threats to food and nutrition security