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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria}}\\[1ex] \Large{``Solidarity in a competing world ---\\fair use of resources''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Investigating Resilience Across Different Contexts and Stakeholders in Africa: Bridging the Knowledge Gap\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Camilla Audia, King's College London, Geography, Flat 88 Santley House Frazier Street, SE1 7RF~London, United Kingdom, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{camilla.audia@kcl.ac.uk}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Camilla Audia$^{1}$, Mark Pelling$^{2}$, Claudia Pisani$^{3}$, Emma Visman$^{4}$}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{1}$King's College London, Geography, United Kingdom}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{2}$King's College London, Geography, }}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{3}$King's College London, Geography, }}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{4}$King's College London, Geography, United Kingdom}}}
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In rural Ethiopia and Burkina Faso, the impact of climate change has significantly increased climate extremes and is threatening vulnerable livelihoods. Limited access to weather and climate information and the actors' low capacity to respond to these stresses are the priority of the two Christian Aid led Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) consortia. King's College London is partner in these consortia with the role of carrying out in"=depth research to bridge the knowledge gap in how to build resilience to shocks and stresses.



This paper presents the research methodology and puts forward some preliminary findings from Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. 



The main research question is: ``How does BRACED shape changes in local and national government, the village level institutional architecture, and amongst project partners with outcomes at the village and household level measured through change in the balance between the absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacities and the building of gender equity?''



This research analyses resilience building processes across different contexts with a specific attention to gender and access to climate information. At the organisational level, it investigates how partners interpret resilience, learn and share best practices, shaping their programming and activities; at the institutional level, it focuses on relevant laws and policies' impact; at the village and household level, it looks at how strategies for livelihoods are shaped by the interplay of partners' and governmental resilience programming.



Our approach integrates Béné's ``Absorptive / Adaptive / Transformative'' measuring resilience framework with Cleaver's Institutional Bricolage analysis to highlight how flows of information between these contexts evolve, shape and are influenced by each other. 



Preliminary findings suggest that pastoralist or agro pastoralist origins, patterns of food aid dependency and the overall presence or absence of previous NGO work have a deep impact in the shaping of livelihood strategies at the local level. The project's learning component and consortium structure present some challenges and offer many opportunities in terms of co"=production of knowledge.



This research investigates how resilience practices are co"=produced within a diversity of stakeholders and how flows of information across different contexts contribute to resilience building processes.}

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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Climate information, gender, institutional bricolage, livelihoods, resilience, traditional forecasting, transformation, weather forecasting
\index[key]{Climate information}
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