Through a different lens: ActionAid's resilience framework

This publication presents ActionAid’s resilience framework to help understand the vulnerabilities of communities to different risks, and the opportunities that can be derived from this. It includes the different elements of resilience that are crucial areas of work in addressing the risks and vulnerabilities of disaster- or crisis-prone communities.

Action points presented in the document include the following (p. 21):

• Build awareness of staff and partners on how human rights-based approach (HRBA) programmes can contribute more effectively to building community resilience.
• Develop flagship resilience projects that combine activities to build the absorptive, adoptive and transformative
  capacities of communities, and demonstrate impact by piloting new methods to measure resilience.
• Ensure that Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Resilient Sustainable Agriculture approach (CRSA) projects reflect on the underlying causes of communities’ vulnerabilities and risks they face, and include activities to challenge existing societal and government structures and power dynamics.
• Ensure humanitarian recovery programmes are contributing to communities’ resilience to help reduce impacts of future shocks and stresses, and are supporting communities to prosper.
• Learn from HRBA programming in conflict-affected areas and explore the possibilities and limitations of building resilience of communities affected by conflict.