Building strong, resilient communities
Through global cooperative efforts, NCBA CLUSA aims to empower people around the world to build resilient communities. Learn more about our approach and the resilient communities we’ve helped build through our approach.
Our Approach
NCBA CLUSA builds more resilient communities, so vulnerable people can face uncertainty with confidence.
Resilience is the ability of systems, countries, communities, households and people to mitigate, adapt and recover from stresses and shocks in a way that minimizes chronic vulnerability and assists inclusive growth. We help people acquire the assets, knowledge and agency to anticipate, weather, and bounce back from shocks and stresses, without compromising future generations.
Our inclusive interventions improve food and nutrition security, asset accumulation for vulnerable households, equitable management of natural resources, and transparent and accountable governance to build more resilient communities. NCBA CLUSA’s process provides a comprehensive, flexible guide that adapts to unforeseen challenges and opportunities, evolving over time. We facilitate self-directed change within the communities, governments, and systems where we work.
Our resilience approach addresses critical points within a nation’s socio-ecological system to bring about lasting positive change: strengthened governance capacity, improved land use management and farming practices, and better health and nutrition. This integrated approach helps vulnerable individuals, families and communities plan for, recover from and overcome shocks, including those caused by climate change.
Equipping local institutions, producer organizations and civil society groups to adapt to the impacts of climate change requires strong governance that can anticipate and proactively address community needs. NCBA CLUSA helps governing bodies to develop land and natural resource management plans that oversee the use of water, land and other resources to reduce conflict, improve planning and protect local assets.
We’re able to improve asset accumulation for vulnerable households, equitable management of natural resources, and food and nutrition security through inclusive interventions. We’re also able to enhance transparent and accountable governance to build more resilient communities.
Successful Projects
Since 1953, NCBA CLUSA has expanded its international community by supporting communities in building resilience in more than 100 countries. Throughout the years, we’ve completed an array of successful projects like our projects in Senegal, Burkina Faso and Niger.
Feed the Future – Kawolor
NCBA CLUSA ran this project from November 2017 to November 2022.
The five-year Kawolor project aimed to address malnutrition and ensure food security in Senegal by enabling local organizations and regional resource partners to implement and enlarge the Nutrition Led Agriculture (NLA) approach effectively. NCBA CLUSA used a “platform approach” to support and train local institutions in building resilient communities by leading the way to food security and better nutrition.
NCBA CLUSA joined with several groups, including Citizen Working Groups, research institutions, Agriprenuers known as Community-Based Solution Providers (CBSPs), mothers’ groups and private firms. Together, we’ve impacted 150,000 households and reduced stunting by 30%.
USAID Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel
The enhanced resilience REGIS-ER project ran from November 2013 to December 2020 in Burkina Faso and Niger.
An investment in resilience seeks to address the root cause of chronic vulnerability through more robust governance, awareness of climate change impacts and adaptation to them, nutrition-led agriculture, natural resource management, and better health and hygiene.
REGIS-ER focused on three components:
- Strengthening governance
- Improving nutrition and health
- Sustaining livelihoods
Through NCBA CLUSA’s global cooperative efforts, this project helped 110,750 people raise their resiliency to climate change and benefited 143,859 children younger than 5 from a nutritional program.
