Building Resilience through DRR: Strengthening Governance & Market Systems

Building Resilience through DRR: On the Ground in Asia and Africa

Lessons Learned on Strengthening Governance and Market Systems

Join us to discover the lessons Mercy Corps practitioners are learning about building resilience through a range of our programs in Africa and Asia.

Through an engaging mix of presentations, panel discussions and an interactive exercise, explore practical ways to operationalize resilience strategies. We’ll discuss assessment and design approaches; measurement and learning; and implementation successes and challenges. Our field and technical staff will share the experiences and tools that have helped us adopt a resilience approach—in partnership with government and local market actors—across different contexts, systems and scales.

Speakers and Panelists Include:

Dominic Graham, Mercy Corps Country Director, Ethiopia, Pastoralists’ Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME)

Melaku Yirga, Mercy Corps Director of Programs, Uganda, Revitalizing Agriculture Incomes and New Markets (RAIN)

Ratri Sutarto, Mercy Corps Program Manager, Indonesia, Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN)

Chet Tamang, Mercy Corps Program Manager, Nepal, Managing Risk through Economic Development (M-RED)

Muhammed Alfi Syahrin, Mercy Corps Program Manager, Indonesia Liquidity Facility After Disaster (ILFAD)

Olga Petryniak, Mercy Corps Regional Resilience Advisor, Southeast Asia

Laura Bruno, Mercy Corps Regional Program Manager, Managing Risk through Economic Development (M-RED)

Randy Martin, Mercy Corps Director, Partnership Development, East Asia

Shannon Alexander, Mercy Corps Director of Resilience, Governance and Partnerships

David Nicholson, Mercy Corps Director of Environment, Energy and Climate Change