Resilience in Practice: Operationalising the Ten Characteristics of Resilience through the Case of Greening Darfur

What does resilience look like in practice? How can conceptual understandings of resilience be transformed into meaningful applications at the practical level? Are existing programmes already building resilience or does undertaking a ‘resilient’ programme mean doing something differently? These are just some of the questions this paper will explore. This paper commits to a specific understanding of the concept of resilience and explores the usefulness, and in some respects validity, of that conceptual understanding of resilience in practice.

This report was originally published by the Institute of Development Studies.