A Framework for Understanding and Measuring Resilience

The paper provides practical guidance on how the concept of resilience can be applied by SSI programming as well as Community and Local Development (CLD) work led by other global practices. Targeted primarily at SSI task teams, the paper aims to do three things: first, it aims to help project teams think through how their work can build resilience. It does so by providing a framework for understanding resilience (section two) and by outlining three different pathways by which SSI work may promote resilience (section three). Second, it aims to link the SSI’s work on resilience to broader World Bank-wide work on resilience. It provides input from SSI on how data on impacts can be aggregated for the purpose of tracking progress on relevant corporate scorecard measures (section four). Third, it aims to help teams measure the impact of projects on resilience. It provides examples of indicators that can be used to measure the different elements of resilience in results frameworks and provides guidance on how to collect such data (section five).