Intelligent rural investments or operations with sustainable practices require a good understanding of the influential factors as well as historic lessons from decades of development literature. This simple review is very accessible for a non-expert and charts the path to the multidimensionality of today’s Sustainable Development Goals through a fifty-year retrospective of key moments in development history.
COSA contributes its expertise as part of the GCP’s Online Learning Series this September.
COSA’s Resilience Measurement Tool is useful and adaptable for projects of varying aims and scales.
Elena Serfilippi, COSA’s Coordinator for Resilience Research, answers the three most commonly asked questions about measuring resilience.
COSA’s Vivek Voora explains how measuring the resilience of cotton farming operations provides a starting point to take the necessary and appropriate steps for farmers to effectively adapt to change.
In this second brief, we present COSA’s resilience measurement system, starting with an analysis of its similarities and differences with common sustainability measurement.
COSA’s work in resilience metrics shapes USAID’s Field Guide.
In this issue brief, we discuss how Resilience is a prerequisite to ensure long term sustainability, and how resilience programming should incorporate normative sustainable thinking based on the analysis of the relations between resilience and sustainability.
With the generous support of the Ford Foundation and the Resilience Working Group COSA developed a resilience measurement tool as a contribution to the public good.
Thanks in part to a Ford Foundation grant, COSA brought clarity to the lack of consensus and consistency surrounding resilience programs in the development community.
As the field of sustainability matures and we better understand which activities are actually making the most impact, the conversation is starting to take a new turn. […]