Climate resilience framework: Training materials

Series 1. Establishing resilience principles

The Climate Resilience Framework is a conceptual framework for simplifying and analyzing complex relationships between people, systems, institutions and climate change. The framework helps clarify factors that need to be included in the diagnosis of climate vulnerability, structures the systematic analysis of vulnerability in ways that clearly identify the entry points for responding, and supports strategic planning to build resilience to climate change.

Series 1 of the Climate Resilience Framework: Training Materials is designed to get the lead partners in a local climate resilience planning process started. Participants are first introduced to the conceptual framework behind ISET’s engagement approach, the Climate Resilience Framework, and to the key tool used for engagement, the Shared Learning Dialogue. Following this introduction, participants are led through identifying resilience planning goals, reviewing existing policies, identifying the stakeholders needed to support and engage in the climate resilience building process, and from this group assembling a “climate working group”.


AuthorsKaren MacClune; Kari Tyler; Sarah Opitz-Stapleton; Kate Hawley; Fawad Khan

Citation: MacClune, K., Tyler, K., & Opitz-Stapleton, S. (2013). Climate resilience framework: Training materials (Series 1: Establishing resilience principles). Boulder, CO: Institute for Social and Environmental Transition-International.

Funded by: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); The Rockefeller Foundation (RF); American Red Cross; The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN).

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