A conceptual framework for measuring livelihood resilience: Relocation experience from Aceh, Indonesia

Dantje Sina, Alice Yan Chang-Richards, Suzanne Wilkinson and Regan Potangaroa

World Development, 2019, vol. 117, issue C, 253-265

Abstract: Meeting the global targets of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Millennium Development Goals requires a resilience paradigm to be embedded in the very fabric of community livelihoods. As livelihood holds the key to rapid recovery following a large-scale disaster, building livelihood resilience is a high priority. Through a survey of five post-2004 Indian Ocean tsunami relocated villages in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar, Indonesia, this research developed a framework for measuring livelihood resilience in cases of post-disaster displacement. The framework suggests that the indicators for measuring resilient livelihood fall into four categories: individual livelihood coping ability, individual wellbeing, access to livelihood resources, and socio-physical robustness of the local community. Relocated individuals seemed to perceive the importance of the first two categories higher than the latter, which implies they think proactive self-sufficiency is more important than other external enabling conditions in building their livelihood resilience. This framework can help government agencies and aid organizations to plan for appropriate livelihood support post-disaster and/or prioritize investment in pre-event livelihood preparedness for individuals, so that they can fare better when facing displacement from a disaster.

Keywords: Sustainable development; Livelihood resilience; Benchmarking tool; Relocation; Displacement; 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.01.003

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