Fragile Contexts Programming
By 2030, two-thirds of the world's poorest people will live in fragile contexts where governance, security, and social systems are very weak. In these regions, children are at high risk of exploitation, malnutrition, violence, early marriage, and being denied their basic rights.
We are dedicated to helping the world's most vulnerable children and families. By being flexible and sensitive to conflicts in fragile areas, we can meet immediate needs and work toward long-term solutions. This helps communities build resilience and break the cycles of poverty and conflict.
Through partnerships with community stakeholders, local civil society, churches, and other faith organisations, we address the root causes of fragility. Our goal is to ensure that children not only survive but also recover and thrive in challenging environments.
Our Impact
Our Approaches
Fragile Context Programme Approach
The Fragile Context Programme Approach (FCPA) is World Vision's method for adaptive programming in fragile areas. It aims to address immediate survival needs and build a better future for vulnerable children and families. Working in these challenging environments requires long-term consistency, agility (ability to change), and flexibility to ensure effective programming throughout design, implementation, and impact measurement. World Vision developed the FCPA to help the organization adapt and manage risks more effectively while being sensitive to the specific context.
Transformational Development
Transformational Development is how World Vision responds to poverty and vulnerability and works towards a vision of “life in all its fullness” for every child in every context. This means girls and boys living abundant lives within transformed families, communities and societies characterised by dignity, justice, peace and hope, as we believe God intended. The principles of transformational development apply to all World Vision’s work – including relief, development and advocacy activities. Six principles underpin our Transformational Development work, informing our understanding of good practice in development, relief and advocacy work, and driving our programme quality standards: listen, include, empower, connect, challenge, and adapt.
The Adaptive Programme Approach
The Adaptive Programme Approach (APA) is an evolution of World Vision’s Development Programme Approach (DPA). Nexus principles are integrated into the APA to ensure World Vision teams always work effectively with partners in complex contexts to achieve resilience and lasting transformation in the lives of children, families and their communities to the degree possible. The APA helps World Vision to; understand the context and how it is likely to change; use reactive and proactive frontline risk management and decision-making based on real-time context monitoring; and finally, empower frontline programme staff, local actors, and partners to make decisions and adjust activities and budgets as required when risks and opportunities change.
