Robustness
Ability of the system to withstand the impacts of shocks and fluctuations and maintain its characteristics and performance.
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.
Learning
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
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
Speed at which assets can be accessed or mobilised by system stakeholders to achieve goals in an efficient manner.
Connectedness
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
Ability of the system to undertake different courses of action and to innovate.
Flexibility
Ability of systems to be nimble in response to uncertainty addressing challenges and utilizing the opportunities that may arise from change.
Inclusion
Extent to which the system embraces equity and inclusiveness, and provides fair access to rights, resources and opportunities to all its members.
Self-organization
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
Roxanne Bauer
Communications Officer
ROBUSTNESS
Examples:
- Physical preparations such as flood barriers, terracing on hills and resistant infrastructure.
- Strong institutions that help avoid the system’s collapse amidst the impact of climate shocks and stressors.
- Design and implementation of new policies and/or regulations that increase preparedness.
LEARNING
Examples:
- Ability to learn from past experiences and adapt to changing conditions.
- Incorporation of new knowledge into decision-making processes.
- Continuous improvement of practices based on lessons learned.
REDUNDANCY
Examples:
- Availability of multiple livelihoods or sources of income (e.g. remittances, cash crops, paid labor), which create a financial surplus or additionality that can be used to respond to climatic events.
- Access to multiple sources of support/expertise that can substitute one another (e.g. multiple credit sources) and help to fill gaps in times of need.
RAPIDITY
Examples:
- Availability of early-warning systems that alert the community about imminent threats.
- Swift access to the information needed to take decisions.
- Savings, credit and insurance mechanisms to ensure rapid access to the financial resources required to respond to shocks (e.g. shelter and food needs).
CONNECTEDNESS
Examples:
- Access to networks (formed by members at the local, regional or national levels) (e.g. regional institutions or a national group of volunteers).
- Access to extended markets (regional or international), or organisations to pull resources and support climate responses.
DIVERSITY
Examples:
- Availability of multiple/diverse livelihood options, land use, and infrastructure choices.
- Access to different sources of scientific research and/or information, as well as to traditional/indigenous knowledge to inform responses to shocks.
- Shift from monoculture to diversified farming methods.
FLEXIBILITY
Examples:
- Availability of flexible institutions that support alternative pathway of action to climatic impacts.
- Ability to inform decisions with new information that becomes available, adopt new tools or agricultural inputs that can improve productivity and make crops more resistant to climatic impacts.
INCLUSION
Examples:
- Availability of programmes to improve the skills and competencies of vulnerable members of the community, including trust, self-worth and other psycho-social factors.
- Participative decision-making processes at the community level, transparency and representation of all groups (women, elders, youth, persons with disabilities) within local decisions and processes.
- Traditional knowledge and technologies used in local adaptation strategies.
SELF‐ORGANIZATION
Examples:
- Availability of locally led adaptation efforts.
- Local organisations that coordinate access to disaster prevention and response resources.
- Community-based social networks that help create awareness and disseminate information about local climate change impacts.
For projects under implementation the focus would be on identifying attributes that underpin existing project interventions to better monitor ongoing projects for resilience. Please note that users are not expected to have specialized knowledge of climate change. However, the tools rely on your subject matter expertise and understanding of the country or project context.
Do you want to understand the climate context in the country/countries of focus? If so, please visit the Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP) summary page here. For regional projects you would need to access the multiple countries separately.
If you have applied the Climate and Disaster Risk Screening tools, the results will provide you with relevant information about hazards.
ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY
ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY refers to the ability to prepare for, mitigate, and/or prevent negative impacts of shocks and hazards, so as to preserve and restore essential basic structures and functions. Preparedness is key for absorptive capacity in order to better cope with climate impacts in the short term.
Examples include establishing emergency protocols to increase preparedness for extreme events; early warning systems; strengthening the walls of grain storage sheds to enable them to withstand inclement weather, such as high winds and rain; and reforestation to restore critical ecosystem services.
ADAPTIVE ABSORPTIVE
ADAPTIVE CAPACITY refers to the ability to adjust, modify or change characteristics and actions to moderate potential future impacts from shocks and stresses, so as to continue to function without major qualitative changes
Examples include establishing an irrigation system for farmers previously dependent on variable rainfall to water their crops; diversifying livelihoods, using digital technologies to enhance climate information and knowledge sharing.
TRANSFORMATIVE CAPACITY
TRANSFORMATIVE CAPACITY refers to the ability to create a fundamentally new system so as to avoid negative impacts from shocks and stresses. Transformation takes place over longer periods of time, as it requires structural change
Examples include adoption of payment of ecosystem services to promote forests and landscape management that promote flood regulation and watershed conservation; shifting to promote value-added downstream agro-industries to diversity jobs and reduce vulnerability to climate shocks.
People
The project enhances the resilience of vulnerable communities or groups (e.g. farmers, elderly, youth) situated in climate sensitive or FCV regions – preventing them from becoming climate migrants or helping them develop resilient agricultural livelihoods.
Assets
The project enhances the resilience of physical infrastructure (e.g. roads, bridges, schools, transmission lines) in climate vulnerable locations through climate smart design, rehabilitation and maintenance, and/or engineering solutions.
Institutions
The project enhances the resilience of institutions (e.g., government entities, Ministries, agencies, research centers) through increased technical and financial capacity, increased organizational efficacy, and improved mechanisms (e.g. information sharing, data access, governance) to accomplish its mandate.
Services
The project enhances the resilience of services (e.g. mobility, water and sanitation, energy, agribusiness, financial or ecosystem services – such as flood regulation and carbon sequestration) through increased resource efficiency, institutional or organizational capacity, or by strengthening the supply chain.
General examples of resilience attributes
Here you will find illustrative examples of resilience attributes and of the ‘markers’ or key characteristics that distinguish them. These examples will help you select the attributes that are most relevant for your project’s outcomes, and help you think about potential interventions (Step 4).
Physical preparedness and protection
- Physical preparations such as flood barriers, terracing on hills and resistant infrastructure.
- Strong institutions that help avoid the system’s collapse amidst the impact of climate shocks and stressors.
- Design and implementation of new policies and/or regulations that increase preparedness and longer-term resilience.
Capacity building
- Availability of targeted/customized capacity-building programmes on adaptation options.
- Mechanisms to document and deploy traditional adaptation knowledge and lessons learned.
- Access to relevant information and knowledge about local climate change impact.
Spare resources/additionality
- Availability of multiple livelihoods or sources of income (e.g. remittances, cash crops, paid labor), which create a financial surplus or additionality that can be used to respond to climatic events; availability of alternative market routes.
- Access to multiple sources of support/expertise that can substitute one another (e.g. multiple credit sources) and help to fill gaps in times of need.
- Alternative sources of energy and back-up systems (e.g. generators, off-grid solar systems) that allow the system to continue operating.
Rapid resource assessment/coordination
- Availability of early-warning systems that alert the community about imminent threats.
- Ensuring swift access to the information needed to take decisions, through new or established systems.
- Savings, credit and insurance mechanisms in place to ensure rapid access to the financial resources required to respond to shocks (e.g. shelter and food needs).
Multi‐level networks and cross‐scale integration
- Access to formal networks (formed by members at the local, regional or national levels) (e.g. regional institutions or a national group of volunteers).
- Informal, social networks – family, etc.
- Access to extended markets (regional or international), or organizations to pull resources and support climate responses.
Availability of multiple courses of action
- Availability of multiple/diverse livelihood options, ecosystem services, income sources, and/or infrastructure, which enable multiple courses of action.
- Access and use of different sources of information (e.g. scientific research, traditional knowledge) to identify opportunities.
- Access to diverse technology options that foster innovative responses to climate change challenges.
Adaptable decision‐making
- Availability of flexible institutions that support alternative pathway of action to climatic impacts.
- Ability to inform decisions with new information that becomes available, adopt new tools or agricultural inputs that can improve productivity and make crops more resistant to climatic impacts.
- Infrastructure developed on a modular basis to allow flexible private sector involvement and complementarity.
Gaps’ reduction
- Availability of programmes to improve the skills and competencies of vulnerable members of the community, including trust, self-worth and other psycho-social factors.
- Participative processes at the community level, mechanisms to integrate local voices, transparency and representation of all groups (women, elders, youth, persons with disabilities) within local decisions and processes.
- Traditional knowledge and technologies used in local adaptation strategies.
Collaboration/consensus building
- Availability of locally led adaptation efforts.
- Local organisations that coordinate access to disaster prevention and response resources.
- Community-based social networks that help create awareness and disseminate information about local climate change impacts.
Water sector examples of resilience attributes
Transport sector examples of resilience attributes
Energy sector examples of resilience attributes
Agriculture sector examples of resilience attributes
Resilience Attributes
Robustness
Ability of the system to withstand the impacts of shocks and fluctuations and maintain its characteristics and performance.
Learning
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
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
Speed at which assets can be accessed or mobilised by system stakeholders to achieve goals in an efficient manner.
Connectedness
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
Ability of the system to undertake different courses of action and to innovate.
Flexibility
Ability of systems to be nimble in response to uncertainty addressing challenges and utilizing the opportunities that may arise from change.
Inclusion
Extent to which the system embraces equity and inclusiveness, and provides fair access to rights, resources and opportunities to all its members.
Self-organization
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.
Score Card
The Score Card provides a qualitative assessment of the resilience attributes in the context of implementation, based on the status of key resilience markers.
The scores that you assign will provide a baseline of resilience attributes that can be used by project teams to strengthen the project’s resilience design by:
(a) Providing a basis to track and assess the project’s contribution to resilience at two subsequent points in the project cycle: at mid-term and upon the project’s completion (at minimum); and to visualize progress towards the targets.
(b) Providing input to complement the project’s M&E (e.g. to identify new indicators related to the resilience markers, to help track resilience impact).
Resilience Booster Tool
Frequently Asked Questions
TOOL PURPOSE & BACKGROUND
GETTING STARTED USING THE TOOL
TOOL DETAILS & TECHNICAL HELP
What is the aim of this tool?
The Resilience Booster tool is a direct response to the need for user-friendly, upstream guidance to teams on embedding resilience attributes into the design and management of projects, and on tracking progress over the life of the project. The tool builds on the World Bank’s (WB) knowledge product ‘Enhancing Climate Resilience through Resilience Attributes - Guidance Note (P170863) , and incorporates elements from the WB’s Resilience Monitoring and Evaluation initiative, and from the Resilience Assessment, Benchmarking and Impact Toolkit (RABIT).
Mainstreaming climate change and addressing climate resilience constitute key priorities in the World Bank’s (WB) 2025 Climate Change Targets, and the Next Generation Africa Climate Business Plan (2020-26).
Who is the Resilience Booster tool for?
The tool is designed to be used by development practitioners, including World Bank task teams, who are designing or working on climate resilience projects.
At which stage of the project should I use the tool?
The tool can be used at the stage of project design or during the project’s implementation.
What does the tool do?
The Resilience Booster is a 5-step interactive self-paced tool that applies a resilience lens to strengthen project design and monitoring, in order to achieve climate resilience outcomes.
Steps 1 to 4 help teams to strengthen the design of their project by embedding resilience attributes and generate a resilience booster pathway map. This will take users approximately 20 minutes.
Step 5, which is optional, provides users with an opportunity to strengthen their project’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system by using resilience attributes to monitor resilience progress. This additional step will take approximately 15 minutes.
How long will it take me to apply this tool?
Time requirements will vary depending on the user’s knowledge and consultations. On average, the tool is estimated to take about one hour (steps 1-4 will take approximately 40 minutes; step 5 approximately 20 minutes).
What do I need to apply the tool?
The following are required to use the tool:
Project concept: The user should have some initial understanding of the project components and location. For this information, users can refer to the project’s concept note (in early or advances stage).
Subject matter expertise: The users of the tool are not expected to have specialized knowledge of climate change. The tool relies on an understanding of the country or project context as well as professional expertise, knowledge, and judgment to evaluate the status of the resilience attributes in the context of implementation.
Consultations (optional): Users can complete the steps in collaboration with team members, and consult with relevant sector and country specialists, as required.
Can the steps of the tool be repeated or updated?
Yes, users have the capacity to go back to previous steps and update the information, as needed. Users can also repeat the process if required.
Can I save my entries?
You have the option to download the information entered as a PDF file after completing Step 4, and in Step 5 (optional). The information that users enter into the tool will not be saved or stored on the site.
How can I learn more about the tool without actually using it?
You can browse the tool and see a sample output to help you get started. You can also refer to the Enhancing Climate Resilience through Resilience Attributes - Guidance Note (forthcoming) for further information.
What other tools are available for strengthening resilience projects?
There are other tools available within and outside of the World Bank that can support resilience design and implementation. Among them, WB Task Teams can refer to the Resilience Rating System, and to the Resilience Monitoring and Evaluation (ReM&E) resources to get further information. Users can refer to relevant climate and disaster information through the World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP) and the Climate Disasters Risk Screening Tool.
What should I do after using the Resilience Booster?
a) For projects under design: Having completed the 4 steps of the Resilience Booster Tool users will be able to strengthen the project’s design narrative in the Project Concept Note (PCN) or in the Project’s Appraisal Document (PAD) by:
Making reference to the priority resilience attributes that you identified towards the achievement of the project’s outcomes,
Integrating specific project interventions that contribute to strengthen those attributes, and
Making explicit the linkages with the resilience capacities (absorptive, adaptive, transformative), in alignment with the project's development objective (PDO).
For World Bank teams, the integration of resilience attributes into the project’s design can strengthen the contribution to corporate climate commitments, in particular, the climate change co-benefits, and the resilience rating system.
b) For projects under implementation: By completing step 5 (optional) users will be able to prepare a resilience attributes baseline, identify targets, and generate a visualization that can complement the results framework. You will also be able to use the scores at key milestone stages of project implementation (annual, mid-term and end of project) to assess your project’s progress on resilience.
How was the development of this tool supported?
The tool was funded through the Africa Climate-Resilient Investment Facility (AFRI-RES) which is AFRI-RES is a partnership between the Africa Union, African Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the World Bank Group that was established with support from the Nordic Development Fund (NDF). It seeks to set up an Africa-based centre of technical competence and excellence to assist governments, planners and private developers in Africa to integrate climate change in project planning and design, thereby attracting funding from both development and climate finance sources.
While this tool is not mandatory (task teams can use other tools or approaches as relevant to their sector), it is expected that it provides an intuitive approach to strengthen project design and implementation.
How should the tool be referenced?
The tool should be referenced as follows:
World Bank (2020) World Bank Resilience Booster Tool, Washington D.C.
Disclaimer
You understand and agree that the use of the Resilience Booster website is at your own sole risk. The World Bank provides the tool, and linked data resources “As Is” and “As Available”. Under no circumstances shall the World Bank, any other member of the World Bank Group, or any other content provider, be liable to you for any loss, damage, liability or expense incurred or suffered which is claimed to result from use of or in connection with any activity in relation to the Resilience Booster tool or as a result of the transmission or disclosure of confidential or partially disclosed data or information (including, without limitation, anything – including any tools made available through the tool that may personally identify you or your location) through the access to or use of the tool or otherwise provided thereby, including without limitation, any fault, error, omission, interruption or delay with respect thereto as well of any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, unauthorized distribution, modification or destruction of content or information provided or transmitted by you, or by forging of your e-mail or user information. You can browse the tool to get familiar, or for general awareness.
Output Reports: The output report of the World Bank’s Resilience Booster Tool will be generated and delivered in a .pdf format. These reports are yours to keep and use as you wish. The World Bank will not retain a copy of the reports, nor retain any information entered, so please save it as necessary. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in the reports 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. The information, interpretations and conclusions presented in the output reports are for informational purposes only and shall not be used or relied on by the user, including defining or declaring a climate disaster in any formal way. Nor shall the tool or the output reports be construed as providing investment advice. Although the World Bank makes reasonable efforts to ensure all the information presented in the tool is correct, its accuracy and integrity cannot be guaranteed. Use of this tool is at the user`s own risk and under no circumstances shall the World Bank be liable for any loss, damage, liability or expense incurred or suffered which is claimed to result from the use of this tool and any output reports resulting from use of the tool. This tool and the data it contains do not imply any opinion, judgment or endorsement on the part of the World Bank, and the findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in the data are those of various contributors.
Acknowledgements
The World Bank Resilience Booster Tool is the result of contributions from a wide range of sector and thematic specialists across the World Bank Group. We thank everyone who contributed to the design, approach, content, as well as the testing and validation at various stages of the tool development. The tool was funded as part of the work program under the AFRI-RES.
The Resilience Booster Tool was developed by the World Bank AFRI-RES team led by Kanta Kumari Rigaud and Angelica V. Ospina.
The design of the tool benefited greatly from inputs from World Bank Group colleagues, including Stephane Hallegatte, Pravin Karki, Ademola Braimoh, Greg Browder, Timothy Brown, Viviane Wei Chen Clement, Sundus Naeem Siddiqi, Neha Mukhi, Fatima Arroyo, Ioannis Vasileiou, Norman Bentley Piccioni, Christopher De Serio, Nathan L. Engle, Jacqueline Marie Tront, Tesfaye Bekalu, Nalin Kishor, Lesya Verheijen, Pablo Cesar Benitez, Michelle Anne Winglee Jordi Jose Gallego-Ayala, Salome Alweny Celine Ramstein, and Anmol Arora. The team also wishes to thank Linus Mofor, United Nations Economic Commission of Africa (UNECA); and Aage Jørgensen, Nordic Development Fund (NDF), for their valuable contributions, and as core partners of the AFRI-RES.
REI Systems is acknowledged for the development of the tool.
The offline version of the Resilience Booster Tool can be accessed by users that have limited or unreliable connectivity, and/or that prefer to apply the Tool using a different/static format. The links below provide a detailed user’s manual for the offline Tool, instructions to download it, and a legal disclaimer.
*Please note that the offline version of the Resilience Booster Tool is only supported by Windows 7/8/10 operating system and it was developed for use on desktop/laptop devices.
- Download instructions
- Download Offline Resilience Booster Tool
- Offline Resilience Booster Tool: User’s Manual
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Legal Disclaimer
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.
Resilience Booster Tool Methodology
Acknowledgements
The World Bank Resilience Booster Tool is the result of contributions from a wide range of sector and thematic specialists across the World Bank Group. We thank everyone who contributed to the design, approach, content, as well as the testing and validation at various stages of the tool development. The tool was funded as part of the work program under the AFRI-RES.
The Resilience Booster Tool was developed by the World Bank AFRI-RES team led by Kanta Kumari Rigaud and Angelica V. Ospina.
The design of the tool benefited greatly from inputs from World Bank Group colleagues, including Stephane Hallegatte, Pravin Karki, Ademola Braimoh, Greg Browder, Timothy Brown, Viviane Wei Chen Clement, Sundus Naeem Siddiqi, Neha Mukhi, Fatima Arroyo, Ioannis Vasileiou, Norman Bentley Piccioni, Christopher De Serio, Nathan L. Engle, Jacqueline Marie Tront, Tesfaye Bekalu, Nalin Kishor, Lesya Verheijen, Pablo Cesar Benitez, Michelle Anne Winglee Jordi Jose Gallego-Ayala, Salome Alweny Celine Ramstein, and Anmol Arora. The team also wishes to thank Linus Mofor, United Nations Economic Commission of Africa (UNECA); and Aage Jørgensen, Nordic Development Fund (NDF), for their valuable contributions, and as core partners of the AFRI-RES.
REI Systems is acknowledged for the development of the tool.
1. Introduction
Resilience is defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the capacity of social, economic and environmental systems to cope with a hazardous event or trend or disturbance, responding or reorganizing in ways that maintain their essential function, identity and the capacity for adaptation, learning and transformation.
It is critical to unpack the concept to embed it more systematically into project design and monitoring. Key elements in the definition relate to capacity (to absorb, adapt and transform), and to the need for a dynamic systems-based approach, working with key actors to address shocks and stresses.
The Resilience Booster tool applies a resilience lens to strengthen project design and monitoring, in order to achieve climate resilience outcomes. The tool builds on the World Bank’s (WB) knowledge product ‘Enhancing Climate Resilience through Resilience Attributes - Guidance Note (P170863) , and incorporates elements from the WB’s Resilience Monitoring and Evaluation resources, and from the Resilience Assessment, Benchmarking and Impact Toolkit (RABIT), with some modifications.
Using a set of resilience attributes (i.e., robustness, learning, redundancy, rapidity, connectedness, diversity, flexibility, self-organization and inclusion) this tool helps to build and secure resilience.
The Resilience Booster is a 5-step interactive self-paced tool that can be used by development practitioners and teams during the stages of project design and/or during the project’s implementation.
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Steps 1 to 4 help teams to strengthen the design of their project by embedding resilience attributes and generate a resilience booster pathway map. This will take users approximately 20 minutes.
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Step 5, which is optional, provides users with an opportunity to strengthen their project’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system by using resilience attributes to monitor resilience progress. This additional step will take approximately 15 minutes.
This tool does not replace the need for technical assessments to inform the design of the project to address climate risks. Rather, the Resilience Booster serves as a unifying way to ensure that these interventions are designed to embed and secure resilience.
2. Logical approach of the tool
This note sets out the methodology, logic and approach of the Resilience Booster tool when applied to:
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Strengthening Resilience Design Methodology
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Strengthening Resilience Monitoring Methodology
2.1 Strengthening Resilience Design Methodology
Steps 1 to 4 of the Resilience Booster tool are focused on strengthening resilience project design. They are designed to help users understand the resilience context of their project, and to identify and embed key resilience attributes that contribute to the achievement of the project’s outcomes.
The tool does this by requesting teams enter key project data, and by walking the user through the selection of resilience attributes and specific interventions that can be embedded in the project in order to achieve the outcomes. The tool helps the user to connect the project’s outcomes, resilience capacities, resilience attributes and interventions through a ‘resilience pathway map’, tailored to the project. This pathway map provides a ‘snapshot’ of the project’s approach to resilience building and helps teams to strengthen their project design by:
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Making reference to the priority resilience attributes in the project’s design narrative in support of the achievement of the project’s outcomes,
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Making explicit the resilience contribution of project interventions to strengthen resilience attributes.
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Making explicit the resilience contribution/linkages of the project’s interventions with the resilience capacities (absorptive, adaptive, transformative), in alignment with the project's development objective (PDO).
For World Bank teams, the Resilience Booster tool can strengthen the contribution to corporate climate commitments More specifically, a robust climate and disaster risk screening will inform the resilience booster tool, and the outcome of the booster tool will help enhance the project’s climate co-benefits and resilience rating.
There are four distinct, but interrelated steps that users follow. These steps take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
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First, the user provides basic project information (name, country/region, development objective, duration, sector) to ensure that the resilience approach is tailored to it throughout the rest of the tool.
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Second, the user unpacks the resilience context for the project in relation to resilience to what (shocks and stresses) and resilience of whom (beneficiaries), and identifies the core resilience capacities (absorptive, adaptive, transformative) that the project will contribute to. (Optional: Screening of climate and disaster risks upfront could provide a better understanding of risks…
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Third, the user links the project’s outcomes with the resilience attributes that are most relevant to achieve the project’s goal.
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Fourth, the user embeds the resilience attributes into the project’s design, by identifying specific interventions that will support the delivery of those attributes. These inputs allow the user to generate a ‘Resilience Pathway Map’ tailored to the project, visualizing the linkages between the project’s outcomes, key resilience attributes, and specific project interventions.
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Step 1:
Providing Project Context
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Step 2:
Understanding the Resilience Context
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Step 3:
Identifying Resilience Attributes
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Step 4:
Integrating Attributes into Project Design
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GENERATION OF RESILIENCE PATHWAY MAP
2.2 Strengthening Resilience Monitoring Methodology
The Resilience Booster tool provides users with an optional step (Step 5) to complement the project’s M&E system by using resilience attributes to monitor resilience progress. This step can be applied by projects that are at the design stage or under implementation.
After having completed steps 1-4 described above, the user is guided to select 1 to 3 attributes that are most compelling for the project, in order to monitor them during the project’s cycle. Using a simple scoring system (0-5), the user can develop a resilience attributes baseline (reflecting the current state of the resilience attributes in the project’s context), identify targets (what project aims to achieve through the interventions), and generate a visualization that can help inform or complement the project’s results framework. The user can refer to the baseline and target values at key milestone stages of the project’s implementation (e.g., annual, mid-term and end of project) in order to assess progress on resilience.
This fifth step is complementary and interrelated to the previous ones. Completing the five steps of the Resilience Booster tool takes approximately 30-40 minutes.
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Step 1:
Providing Project Context
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Step 2:
Understanding the Resilience Context
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Step 3:
Identifying Resilience Attributes
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Step 4:
Integrating Attributes into Project Design
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Step 5:
Monitoring Resilience Progress with Attributes
Generation of Resilience Pathway Map with Monitoring Chart
BASELINE & TARGET SCORES
VISUALIZATION CHART
3. Key Terms
This section sets out the definitions of key terms used in the tool, as developed in the Guidance Note Integrating Resilience Attributes into Operations1:
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Resilience: capacity of social, economic and environmental systems to cope with a hazardous event or trend or disturbance, responding or reorganizing in ways that maintain their essential function, identity and the capacity for adaptation, learning and transformation.
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Absorptive capacity: Ability to prepare for, mitigate, or prevent negative impacts of shocks and hazards so as to preserve and restore essential basic structures and functions.
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Adaptive capacity: Ability to adjust, modify or change characteristics and actions to moderate potential future impacts from shocks and stresses, so as to continue to function without major qualitative changes
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Transformative capacity: Ability to create a fundamentally new system so as to avoid negative impacts from shocks and stresses. Transformation takes place over longer periods of time, as it requires structural change.
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Resilience attributes: Series of characteristics that are critical for vulnerable systems (e.g., communities) to build resilience to the impacts of shocks and stressors. They include robustness, flexibility, diversity, learning, inclusion, rapidity, redundancy, connectedness, and self-organization. The resilience attributes are not exclusive, and they are interrelated. The role and importance of each attribute is specific to every project and context of implementation.
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Resilience markers: Specific features that help to identify and distinguish each attribute, as well as to track progress throughout the project cycle (i.e., as a complement to the project’s M&E system).
Resilience Booster Tool
This is a step-by-step guide to strengthen your project’s design by integrating resilience attributes. It consists of 5 quick steps to generate a Resilience Booster output, tailored to your project. Click here to see a sample output.
Steps 1 to 4 of the Resilience Booster Tool will take you approximately 40 minutes to complete. Step 5 (optional) will take approximately 20 additional minutes. In order to use the tool, you need to have a project concept note with a clearly defined objective, as well as some initial understanding of the project’s outcomes, components and location. This tool can equally be applied to projects under design or under implementation.
For an overview of the tool's methodology please click here.
*Please note that none of the information entered in the Tool will be saved or stored in the system. You have the option to print the Tool’s final output as a PDF file in Step 4 and in Step 5.
- Step 1: Project Information
- Step 2: Resilience Context
- Step 3: Resilience Attributes
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Step 4: Integrating into Design
Resilience Pathway Map
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Step 5: Monitoring (*optional)
Baseline and Targets Chart
- Result
Resilience Booster Tool
This is a step-by-step guide to strengthen your project’s design by integrating resilience attributes. It consists of 5 quick steps to generate a Resilience Booster output, tailored to your project. Click here to see a sample output.
Steps 1 to 4 of the Resilience Booster Tool will take you approximately 40 minutes to complete. Step 5 (optional) will take approximately 20 additional minutes. In order to use the tool, you need to have a project concept note with a clearly defined objective, as well as some initial understanding of the project’s outcomes, components and location. This tool can equally be applied to projects under design or under implementation.
For an overview of the tool's methodology please click here.
*Please note that none of the information entered in the Tool will be saved or stored in the system. You have the option to print the Tool’s final output as a PDF file in Step 4 and in Step 5.
- Step 1: Project Information
- Step 2: Resilience Context
- Step 3: Resilience Attributes
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Step 4: Integrating into Design
Resilience Pathway Map
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Step 5: Monitoring (*optional)
Baseline and Targets Chart
- Result
Resilience Booster Tool
This is a step-by-step guide to strengthen your project’s design by integrating resilience attributes. It consists of 5 quick steps to generate a Resilience Booster output, tailored to your project. Click here to see a sample output.
Steps 1 to 4 of the Resilience Booster Tool will take you approximately 40 minutes to complete. Step 5 (optional) will take approximately 20 additional minutes. In order to use the tool, you need to have a project concept note with a clearly defined objective, as well as some initial understanding of the project’s outcomes, components and location. This tool can equally be applied to projects under design or under implementation.
For an overview of the tool's methodology please click here.
*Please note that none of the information entered in the Tool will be saved or stored in the system. You have the option to print the Tool’s final output as a PDF file in Step 4 and in Step 5.
- Step 1: Project Information
- Step 2: Resilience Context
- Step 3: Resilience Attributes
-
Step 4: Integrating into Design
Resilience Pathway Map
-
Step 5: Monitoring (*optional)
Baseline and Targets Chart
- Result
Resilience Booster Tool
This is a step-by-step guide to strengthen your project’s design by integrating resilience attributes. It consists of 5 quick steps to generate a Resilience Booster output, tailored to your project. Click here to see a sample output.
Steps 1 to 4 of the Resilience Booster Tool will take you approximately 40 minutes to complete. Step 5 (optional) will take approximately 20 additional minutes. In order to use the tool, you need to have a project concept note with a clearly defined objective, as well as some initial understanding of the project’s outcomes, components and location. This tool can equally be applied to projects under design or under implementation.
For an overview of the tool's methodology please click here.
*Please note that none of the information entered in the Tool will be saved or stored in the system. You have the option to print the Tool’s final output as a PDF file in Step 4 and in Step 5.
- Step 1: Project Information
- Step 2: Resilience Context
- Step 3: Resilience Attributes
-
Step 4: Integrating into Design
Resilience Pathway Map
-
Step 5: Monitoring (*optional)
Baseline and Targets Chart
- Result
Resilience Booster Tool
This is a step-by-step guide to strengthen your project’s design by integrating resilience attributes. It consists of 5 quick steps to generate a Resilience Booster output, tailored to your project. Click here to see a sample output.
Steps 1 to 4 of the Resilience Booster Tool will take you approximately 40 minutes to complete. Step 5 (optional) will take approximately 20 additional minutes. In order to use the tool, you need to have a project concept note with a clearly defined objective, as well as some initial understanding of the project’s outcomes, components and location. This tool can equally be applied to projects under design or under implementation.
For an overview of the tool's methodology please click here.
*Please note that none of the information entered in the Tool will be saved or stored in the system. You have the option to print the Tool’s final output as a PDF file in Step 4 and in Step 5.
- Step 1: Project Information
- Step 2: Resilience Context
- Step 3: Resilience Attributes
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Step 4: Integrating into Design
Resilience Pathway Map
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Step 5: Monitoring (*optional)
Baseline and Targets Chart
- Result
Resilience Booster Pathway Map
This Resilience Pathway Map has been generated using the World Bank’s Resilience Booster tool to inform and considerations of resilience into the design of the project. The pathway map offers a ‘snapshot’ of the project’s approach to resilience building.
Core Resilience capacities
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Absorptive
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Adaptive
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Transformative
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Outcome 1
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Outcome 2
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Outcome 3
Resilience Attributes
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Robustness
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Learning
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Redundancy
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Rapidity
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Connectedness
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Diversity
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Flexibility
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Inclusion
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Self-organization
- Outcome 1
Interventions -
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- Outcome 2
Interventions -
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- Outcome 3
Interventions -
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Summary of Project Information
This information is provided by the user.
How to use this Resilience Booster Pathway map?
Having completed the 4 steps of the Resilience Booster Tool you are able to strengthen the project’s design narrative in the Project Concept Note (PCN) or in the Project’s Appraisal Document (PAD) by
Making reference to the priority resilience attributes that you identified towards the achievement of the project’s outcomes, - Integrating specific project interventions that contribute to strengthening resilience outcomes through attributes.
- Making explicit the linkages with the resilience capacities (absorptive, adaptive, transformative), in alignment with the project's development objective (PDO).
For World Bank teams, the integration of resilience attributes into the project’s design can strengthen the contribution to corporate climate commitments, in particular, the Climate Change Co-benefits, and the Resilience Rating System. Fort further information, please refer to the Resilience Booster Methodology.
You are encouraged to continue with step 5 of the tool, to strengthen your project's resilience tracking. If you have already completed step 5, see the result below.
Resilience Attributes Baseline and Targets
This is a visualization of the project’s resilience attributes baseline and targets. The scores (low from 0-1, medium 2-3, or high 4-5) can help inform or complement the project’s Results Framework, and can be used as a reference to track progress towards targets annually, at mid-point or at the end of the project.
- Baseline
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You can also refer to the resilience markers of these attributes (see Guidance Note in the Home page) to identify indicators to complement your project’s Results Framework.
*Please note that the scores rely on the user’s subject matter expertise and understanding of the country or project context.