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Oxfam defines resilience as ‘the ability of women and men to realize their rights and improve their wellbeing despite shocks, stresses and uncertainty’. The Oxfam Framework for Resilient Development recognizes that the contexts we work in are increasingly characterized by natural and human-made risks, widening inequalities, rapid demographic change, and more frequent environmental and weather-related shocks and stresses linked to climate change. Oxfam seeks to build communities’ capacities to proactively and positively manage this change, in ways that contribute to a just world without poverty., This collection of case studies looks at practices that support the meaningful participation of women in resilience initiatives while also addressing structural inequalities.

Changing rainfall patterns in recent years has meant that smallholder farmers in Chad have difficulty planning their cropping calendars and pastoralists have to change their migration patterns. Some pastoralists in Chad are increasingly agro-pastoralists: becoming sedentary and keeping their herds in the south. This creates recurrent conflict over the access and management of natural resources in this area, as well as over migration., A vulnerability and risk assessment (VRA) was conducted in 2017, to inform Local Development Plans with a ‘resilience’ approach, and to strengthen the governance of local development structures and communities’ social cohesion. This case study summarizes the methodology and results of the VRA.