KORE – Knowledge Resilience – is a knowledge sharing platform to support building resilience to food insecurity and malnutrition in the face of shocks and stresses. It helps inform programming and interventions to strengthen the resilience of agriculture-based livelihoods. The platform provides an overview of tools, approaches, programmes, analyses and methodologies on resilience implemented by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other key partners in different contexts; serves as an integrated and action-oriented platform on resilience-related initiatives; and provides good practices on resilience building.
What is the role of knowledge sharing for resilience building?
Knowledge sharing can play a key role in building resilience. Considerable work is being done on resilience, a fair amount of experience is being gained across sectors, success is finding its way and ad-hoc solutions to constraints are being found. However, the knowledge gained is often not systematically documented and shared, good practices are neither replicated nor upscaled sufficiently and policies are not adequately informed by relevant food security and nutrition information systems. The plethora of tools for food security, nutrition and resilience also point to a need for greater harmonization across approaches. It becomes increasingly important to improve tools, build synergies around resilience practitioners and initiatives and address the clear danger of duplication and lack of learning.
KORE provides a virtual meeting point for the many communities involved in resilience work, both humanitarian and development, and across sectors and themes, such as food security and nutrition, disaster risk reduction, peacebuilding and climate change. KORE seeks to bring different skill sets together in one place: data and information providers, data analysts and users, monitoring and evaluation specialists, information and knowledge management experts, project and programme managers, political consultants and policy-makers. Adequately addressing challenges related to livelihoods and food security will underpin more effective resilience building interventions, and provide decision-makers with robust evidence for more effective policies and actions.
Knowledge sharing and capitalization of good practices have a key role to play in building the resilience of agriculture-based livelihoods. Considerable experience is being gained across sectors and ad-hoc solutions addressing shocks and crises are being found in many different contexts. A fair amount of these experiences are already being documented. However, the resilience-related knowledge gained needs to be systematically analysed, documented and shared so that development organizations and actors understand what works well and why and thus replicate and upscale identified good and promising practices in order to inform policies adequately.