The project rests on four complementary components that aim to improve the livelihood and climate resilience of PAP households, communities, and ecosystems. Resilience is defined as “the ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions through risk management”28. In the context of LLRP II, improving livelihood and climate resilience rests on enhancing the capacity of lowland PAP households, communities, and production systems to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform, or recover from climate shocks in a timely and efficient manner, while (and including by) ensuring the health and regeneration of lowland ecosystems and natural resources. Increases in production and productivity, better access to markets, roads, services, health, education, diversified diets, energy, and sustainable sources of income, and enhanced capacity to manage local resource related conflicts are expected, among other improvements, to contribute to these outcomes.
