Christian Aid in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory introduced the Participatory Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment approach, which has helped people at risk of settler violence or other violations that are a consequence of illegal Israeli settlements or blockades.  Staff at the East Jerusalem YMCA Women’s Development Programme were originally trained by Christian Aid staff in this participatory resilience approach, who are now leaders in this field. What is this approach and why has it been adopted so widely? What has been its wider impact?  Christian Aid in IoPt also adopted an adaptive programming approach, which involves learning by trial and error, testing initial approaches and adjusting rapidly as evidence on possible avenues of change is acquired. What have they learned about the adaptive programming approach and how best to work with partners?  Suzanne speaks to Alicia Malouf, Israel Occupied Palestinian Territory Programme officer, and Mai Jarrar, Director of the Women’s development programme for the East Jerusalem YMCA, a world-wide youth charity, to get some answers. Podcast host: Suzanne Fisher-Murray  Interviewees Alicia Malouf, Israel Occupied Palestinian Territory Programme officer Mai Jarrar, Director of the Women’s development programme for the East Jerusalem YMCA Want to know more?  Find out about Christian Aid’s work in Christian Aid in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian territory. Keeping hope alive: Christian Aid’s work on peace, Impact Study, 2019. The research report profiles Christian Aid’s peacebuilding work in the IOPT and the participatory vulnerability and capacity assessment approach.  What is helping communities mobilise resources? A learning review, June 2017 (PDF) Christian Aid Good Practice Guide: Participatory Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (PVCA). October 2009. (link to a PDF) This podcast is an 18Sixty Production for Christian Aid. Exec Producer & host: Suzanne Fisher-Murray. Producers: Gareth Evans and Chris Attaway. Music by Rowan Bishop. The singing incorporated into the music bed was recorded by Suzanne Fisher-Murray during a trip to a camp for Displaced People in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2004.