Resilience Booster Tool

Stronger Design • Stronger Monitoring • Stronger Impact

Why use this tool?

Applying a resilience lens strengthens the integration of climate risks and opportunities into the design and delivery of investments by enhancing the capacity of people, assets, institutions and infrastructure to harness and/or respond to the impacts of shocks and stresses.

Click here to see a sample output of the tool.

The Resilience Booster is an interactive, step-by-step tool for development practitioners, including World Bank task teams, who are designing or working on climate resilient projects. It helps teams to think through, specify and design project activities that build resilience by integrating resilience attributes. Resilience Attributes are characteristics that help to build and secure resilience.

Robustness
Attribute

Ability of the system to withstand the impacts of shocks and fluctuations and maintain its characteristics and performance.

Learning
Attribute

Ability of the system to gain or create knowledge, and build the skills, attitudes and other competencies needed to innovate and adapt to change.

Redundancy
Attribute

Availability of additional or surplus resources that can be accessed in case of shocks or stressors, and that are interchangeable among them, including overlap of processes, services and/or capacities among institutions.

Rapidity
Attribute

Speed at which assets can be accessed or mobilised by system stakeholders to achieve goals in an efficient manner.

Connectedness
Attribute

Breadth of assets and structures that a system can access, at multiple levels, to respond or adapt to shocks and stressors, and ensure cross-scale alignment.

Diversity
Attribute

Ability of the system to undertake different courses of action and to innovate.

Flexibility
Attribute

Ability of systems to be nimble in response to uncertainty addressing challenges and utilizing the opportunities that may arise from change.

Inclusion
Attribute

Extent to which the system embraces equity and inclusiveness, and provides fair access to rights, resources and opportunities to all its members.

Self-organization
Attribute

Ability to independently re-arrange functions and processes in the face of shocks or stressors, to diagnose problems, assess priorities, and/or mobilize resources to initiate solutions.

For World Bank teams, the integration of resilience attributes can help to meet corporate climate commitments, including climate co-benefits.

This work was conducted as part of the Africa Climate Africa Climate Investment Facility (AFRI-RES), a partnership between the Africa Union, African Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the World Bank Group, established with support from the Nordic Development Fund (NDF).

User Information and Use of the Tool and Linked Resources: No personal information is collected when using the Resilience Booster Tool. For more information see FAQs.

Output Reports: The output of the World Bank’s Resilience Booster Tool will be generated and delivered in a .pdf format (see sample output) You have the option to print the Tool’s final output as a PDF file. The World Bank will not retain a copy of the outputs, so please save it as necessary. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in the outputs are those of the individual who applied the Tool and should be in no way attributed to the World Bank, to its affiliated institutions, to the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

Contacts

Kanta Kumari Rigaud 
Washington DC
Lead Environmental Specialist
 

Kkumari@worldbank.org
 

Roxanne Bauer
Communications Officer
 

rbauer1@worldbankgroup.org