Options for including community resilience in the post-2015 development goals Options for including community resilience in the post-2015 development goals – British Red Cross and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

This report argues that resilience must be built into the post-2015 development framework in order to protect previous gains and endure long-term progress in the face of increasing risk. The authors argue that this needs to go beyond the context of natural hazards to promote an understanding of resilience that addresses the impacts of disasters, gradual stresses, ‘everyday crises’ and inequality, while empowering local communities. Targets which are set in this area need to be about more than mortality and economic losses and include the human, social and psychological impacts of disasters and other shocks and stresses. Three scenarios are proposed: Embedding resilience into a poverty reduction/eradication goal; mainstreaming resilience into other sector goals; and a standalone goal on resilience.