Resilience
RAN defines Resilience as the capacity of people and systems to mitigate, adapt to, recover, and learn from shocks and stresses in a manner that reduces vulnerability and increases wellbeing.
- To understand shocks and stresses that affect populations and systems and the factors that render them vulnerable to those shocks and stresses.
- To understand what makes people and systems resilient (what makes them capable to withstand or adapt to shocks and stresses in a manner that makes them less vulnerable to future risks).
- To identify resilience dimensions and indicators and assessing system resilience.
- To identify entry points and prioritize interventions to strengthen capacities and reduce vulnerabilities to build systems resilience.
Process for Developing RAN’s Resilience Framework
This framework is based upon the Tulane University Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy (Tulane/DRLA) conceptual resilience assessment model and through RAN stakeholder engagement and a series of workshops held at each of the RILab sites (Kampala, Uganda, Ho, Ghana Jimma, Ethiopia and Pretoria, South Africa), revised to reflect the contextual drivers of risk, capacity, and resilience in target communities in sub-Saharan Africa. The Resilience Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RAME) Workshops, held July 2013, were further supplemented by initial secondary data analysis and structured literature reviews carried out by each RILab and represent all of the key steps in an iterative process of developing the RAN Resilience Framework.
