The Resilience Handbook

This handbook aims to support the effectiveness of ActionAid’s work with communities by providing guidance, tools and resources to support resilience building in our programming. It provides readers with a framework for resilience that can be applied in different programme environments, and includes principles of effective programming, good-practice examples, and tools and resources that can be used to build and enhance resilience.

The handbook has been developed for, and with, programme and policy staff – in particular Local Rights Programme (LRP) staff – to support them in applying the resilience ‘lens’ to ActionAid’s overall work. It is designed to complement a wide range of sector-specific resources already available on resilience‑related programming.