Resilience Interventions

This guide provides a methodology for city or government departments to prioritize climate resilience interventions. It outlines a two-exercise process: first, assessing interventions against five specific resilience indicators to determine an overall resilience score, and second, evaluating high-scoring interventions for feasibility and impact, with a strong emphasis on gender equality and social inclusion.

• The guide proposes a five-indicator framework to assess the resilience of interventions: Redundancy (avoiding 'single best solution' failures), Flexibility and diversity (ensuring systems work under various conditions and are socially inclusive), Re-organisation and responsiveness (the ability to adjust to unexpected shocks using flexible structures and local/indigenous knowledge), Access to documentation and learning (mechanisms to avoid repeating past mistakes), and Energy saving and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission mitigation potential.
• Interventions are scored based on how many of the five resilience indicators they fulfill, resulting in a rating ranging from 'Low' (1/5) to 'very high' (5/5).
• Feasibility of an intervention is evaluated across five specific criteria: Technical expertise and access to skills, Political acceptability and consistency with government values, Social acceptability among diverse groups, Cost-benefit analysis including funding capacity, and Responsibility to determine which agency holds the role for the action.
• Impact assessment requires evaluating the timeframe for results and the overall impact on climate risk and GHG reduction. This process must include gender impact assessments to ensure benefits are distributed fairly and to identify potential adverse consequences for disadvantaged groups, which may be grounds for rejecting a proposal if harms cannot be avoided.
• The methodology incorporates a specific 'filter' to ensure projects advance the empowerment of women and girls, aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 5. This involves analyzing changes in access to resources (material, time, knowledge, and information) and evaluating who maintains decision-making control.
• The guide mandates that any proposed intervention involving indigenous peoples must be subject to the acquisition of Free, Prior and Informed Consent.

APA

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (n.d.). Resilience Interventions. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/Prioritising-resilience-measures.docx.pdf

Chicago

Climate and Development Knowledge Network. Resilience Interventions. n.d. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/Prioritising-resilience-measures.docx.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{climateanddevelopmentknowledgenetworkndresilience, author = {{Climate and Development Knowledge Network}}, title = {{Resilience Interventions}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, url = {https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/Prioritising-resilience-measures.docx.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }