Increasingly, resilience is being incorporated into planning and
social protection policy.
People have been facing shocks, both natural
and anthropogenic, forever, devising and innovating a variety of
institutional responses to cope with, recover from, and prevent future
impacts.
Central to these shocks and this coping capacity, but often
underexplored, is the role of social capital.
This paper, using the case
studies of iddirs (funeral societies) in Ethiopia and migrant networks
in the Philippines, explores the contribution of local forms of social
capital to building and strengthening the resilience of individuals and
communities, focusing on their contributions to coping, adaptive, and
transformative capacities.
This paper argues that understanding clearly
the role that existing social capital can play in building resilience is
a necessary first step for policymakers. The authors suggest policy
interventions to fill gaps where and when necessary while supporting and
deepening existing social capital.
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05 May 2014
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