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 severely weakened. In these regions, girls and boys are at greatest risk of harm through exploitation, malnutrition, violence, early marriage and being denied their basic rights in other ways.
We are committed to going further for the world’s most vulnerable children. By operating with agility and conflict sensitivity in fragile contexts, we can meet immediate needs while working toward sustainable, long-term impact, empowering communities to build resilience and break cycles of poverty and conflict that trap them.
Through partnerships with community stakeholders, local civil society, churches and other faith organisations, we address the root causes of fragility and work to ensure that children are not just surviving but recovering and thriving in environments often marked by adversity.
Our Impact
Our Approaches
Fragile Context Programme Approach
The Fragile Context Programme Approach (FCPA) is World Vision's approach to adaptive programming in fragile contexts. It is designed to enable World Vision to address immediate survival needs and build towards a better future for vulnerable children and families in fragile contexts. The complexity of working in fragile contexts requires long-term consistency, agility (i.e. ability to change) and flexibility to ensure good programming throughout design, implementation and impact measurement. World Vision has therefore developed the FCPA to help the organisation adapt and manage risk more effectively in these places while being context-sensitive.
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.
