Current approaches to resilience programming among nongovernmental organizations
This paper introduces the evolution in thinking about the concept of resilience that has occurred over the past five years. Resilience frameworks have integrated livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation approaches into a single framework for assessing resilience. It seeks to enhance understanding of resilience processes, activities, and outcomes by examining initiatives to enhance resilience capacity that are designed and implemented by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
The paper discusses the theories of change developed by various NGOs that support resilience programming, the means by which NGOs are measuring program outcomes and impact, the challenges encountered, and the lessons learned. The paper also identifies potential opportunities for effective resilience programming and highlights implications for policy and remaining knowledge gaps.