odi.org - Aditya Bahadur, Emma Lovell, Emily Wilkinson, Thomas Tanner - August 2015

CLICK HERE - Resilience in the SDGs - Developing an indicator for Target 1.5 that is fit for purpose (7 page .PDF file)

We outline a comprehensive approach for developing a cross-sectoral, multi-dimensional and dynamic understanding of resilience. This underpins the core message of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that development is multi-faceted and the achievement of many of the individual development goals is dependent on the accomplishment of other goals. It also acknowledges that shocks and stresses can reverse years of development gains and efforts to eradicate poverty by 2030. Crucially, this approach to understanding resilience draws on data that countries will collect for the SDGs anyway and entails only a small additional burden in this regard.

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Here are a few examples of local groups working toward a more resilient Lehigh Valley:

What is the "Resilience System"?The U.S. Resilience System (USRS) is a society-wide initiative with the goal of improving the health, well-being, and prosperity of American citizens and their communities by fostering a resilient response to change. Based upon an open source platform that enable collaboration at all levels of society, over great distances, the USRS utilizes a multi sector approach enabling citizens, business and government to collaborate in identifying risks, preparing for unexpected events, reducing vulnerability, and responding to change events with a collective effort to improve circumstances. Focus is upon creative options to adapt to adversity (also called "adaptive capacity building"), information sharing, networking, actions and activity, for a flexible response to create and maintain properous economic and social systems embedded in healthy ecological systems upon whose services we depend upon for our health, wealth, and security.