Making the Most of Resilience

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2013-02-09Author
Newsham, Andy
Béné, Christophe
Davies, Mark
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Abstract
resilience is becoming a hot topic. the increasing interest it is attracting in the development community
offers an opportunity for designing and implementing more effective forms of intervention. specifi cally,
a variety of actors are proposing resilience as a framework for fostering deeper integration between
humanitarian and longer-term development interventions. however, putting it into practice is not
necessarily an easy task and many challenges lie ahead.
in this briefi ng we explore how policy makers can make the most of resilience. this includes: defi ning
the concept to make it more relevant to a wider range of development practitioners; building on
the concept’s strengths but also recognising its weaknesses; addressing these weaknesses by
complementing resilience with other relevant concepts.
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Béné, C., Newsham, A., and Davies, M. (2013), 'Making the Most of Resilience', IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 32, Brighton: IDSIs part of series
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