Despite an increased interest in the concept of resilience and its practical applications among health systems analysts and policy-makers, there is still much confusion about what resilience means, how to strengthen it and how to assess it. In this brief we aim to address these gaps and thus support a more consistent understanding and use of the concept. The brief analyses experiences of other countries in order to sensitize those responsible for implementing resilience-strengthening strategies and those responding to actual shocks to the complex effects of shocks on the various elements of the health system and thus inform their strategic choices.

This paper introduces hospital resilience and its critical role in health systems. It outlines the common challenges faced by hospitals in the Eastern Mediterranean Region and provides recommendations for policy-makers and hospital managers on improving preparedness for greater resilience.

This brief discusses the potential of co-management in small-scale fisheries to bolster resilience. Focusing on the Co-management Northern Bohuslän initiative in Sweden's west coast, it showcases how multi-stakeholder collaborations can foster knowledge exchange and adaptation within fisheries. The initiative emphasizes sustainable local fisheries and blue growth. The report offers insights into challenges, opportunities, and recommendations for enhancing sustainability and resilience through co-management in the Nordic region.

This note provides key information, practical examples and case studies to support UNICEF country offices to integrate child-sensitive DRR and resilience into local governance programming

The paper provides an overview of 10 opportunities for service providers, investors, and donors to improve rural women’s resilience to climate change, and gives examples of innovative ways in which financial and agricultural service providers are already seizing these opportunities.

CORE-Africa is an initiative focused on bolstering the response to COVID-19 across nine DGIS-funded projects in Africa. It seeks to enhance resilience, understand vulnerabilities induced by the pandemic, and refine response strategies. This paper establishes a common understanding across various projects, drawing insights from a larger study on resilience with WUR, feedback from project managers, and a review of the nine projects' on-ground responses.

This report compiles the learnings from the Strengthening Urban Resilience through Play initiative. It presents the insights from a series of peer-to-peer learning activities between the partners and member cities, and it includes case studies and recommendations on how to further scale up and build urban resilience through actions that promote play.

The objectives of this study are to identify the energy technology supply chains that are critical for a) ensuring the EU security of energy supply and b) achieving the EU clean energy transition, taking into account the current vulnerabilities of these supply chains against several threat scenarios; and identify measures to strengthen the resilience of the critical energy technology supply chains and of the European energy sector more broadly.

The SUITS project aims to enhance the capacity of small and medium local authorities to develop and implement sustainable, inclusive, integrated, and accessible transport strategies, policies, technologies, practices, procedures, tools, measures, and intelligent transport systems. It provides guidelines and decision-making support tools for innovative and sustainable financing, the implementation of schemes for innovative procurement, and the development of new business models and partnerships. Its outcome includes the development of guidelines for innovative procurement, sustainable financing approaches, and the creation of bankable projects, new business models, and partnerships, with the goal of improving the end-to-end travel experiences of all users and freight.

The Department for International Trade’s Supply Chains Resilience Framework highlights five options to consider to strengthen long-term supply chain resilience. These are not mutually exclusive and often a combination may be required.

This paper delves into how both formal and informal political institutions influence resilience interventions against climate-related challenges, such as through decentralization or state-community partnerships. For donors and partners aiding resilience-building, understanding the interplay of these institutions is crucial. While formal structures promoting accountability and flexibility enhance resilience, especially when linked with diverse networks, there isn't a universal model for institutional reform.

The SURE-Farm project aims to investigate the potential of innovative risk management approaches in European agriculture. It focuses on the impact of climate change on agriculture and the need for improved adaptive capacity. Its purpose is to identify and develop novel insurance solutions, such as weather index insurances, area yield insurance, and satellite-based insurance solutions, that can complement traditional insurance solutions and provide efficient mechanisms for previously uninsured crops and under-insured risks. It also emphasizes the importance of diverse risk management solutions and the role of cooperation and sharing of risks in strengthening European agriculture. It attempts to provide a set of policy recommendations that support a diversity of risk management solutions and enable long-term strategies for dealing with intergenerational change and identified obstacles to change.

The SURE-Farm project aims to address the challenges of demographic changes, digitalisation, and environmental pressures in European agriculture. It focuses on enhancing farm demographics and increasing resilience in the farming sector. It attempts to offer a set of policy options that can help farmers make informed decisions and have room to maneuver in the face of these challenges. It also highlights the importance of attracting and retaining young farmers and workers in rural areas, improving infrastructure and services, and promoting sustainable farming practices.

The SURE-Farm project aims to develop a resilience-enabling environment for European farming systems. It focuses on integrating institutional and socio-economic principles to foster resilience and address challenges faced by farming and food systems. The project attempts to develop 6 key principles for a resilience-enabling environment, which include strategies for coping with shocks, building anticipatory and responsive capacities, fostering diversity of responses, and conducting in-depth analysis of root causes and vulnerabilities. These principles are essential for ensuring the long-term sustainability and adaptability of EU farming systems. 

The SURE-Farm project aims to enhance the resilience of Europe's farming systems. It critically analyzes current policies and their impact on European agriculture, providing recommendations for improvements, including the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2020. It includes a policy brief that emphasizes the need for tailored policy mixes to address the diverse resilience needs of farming systems and advocates for a shift towards policies that support adaptability and transformability, ultimately contributing to a more robust and sustainable agricultural sector in Europe.

This summary note compiles and summarizes a survey filled by 18 G20 countries in order to share experiences, build knowledge and inform policies on the agricultural impacts, resilience of the sector, and risk management responses of G20 members to the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey aimed to collect insights on the specific challenges faced by G20 members and guest countries in relation to COVID-19, as well as their respective policy responses, and to conduct an early assessment of policies’ effectiveness.

This Discussion Paper looks at how sustainable food hubs, as locally embedded, grassroots organisations distributed across the country, view the contribution they already make, or potentially could make, to ‘food system resilience’. It is the last report in the Food Research Collaboration’s (FRC) research investigating the role and capabilities of sustainable food hubs in the UK

SuWaNu Europe project aims to promote the efficient exchange of knowledge, experience, and skills among practitioners and stakeholders regarding the use of regenerated water in agriculture. It seeks to overcome identified challenges and barriers and facilitate the use of innovative technologies and organizational solutions. The project's outcome is a set of policy briefs that provide guidelines for future implementation of circular economy initiatives and water reuse practices in Europe.

The Nordic thematic group for innovative and resilient regions 2017-2020 (TG2) aims to bolster regional resilience in the Nordic areas, focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship. Coordinated by Nordregio, they concentrate on four themes: Nordic regional resilience, smart specialisation, digital transitions, and skill development for resilience. Their work aligns with the 2030 vision of transforming the Nordic region into the world's most sustainable and integrated area, emphasizing green transitions and digitalization. Gaia Consulting's study further supports TG2 by contextualizing these themes in a broader regional framework.

The World Economic Forum highlighted cyber threats as significant risks, especially for the financial sector. As financial services evolve, more potential cyberattack targets emerge. Financial Technology (FinTech) companies, vital for innovation, grapple with consistent cybersecurity standards due to the myriad of existing frameworks. The FinTech Cybersecurity Consortium, established in 2018, aims to clarify and streamline these standards, advocating for foundational cybersecurity controls across all FinTechs without introducing a new standard. FinTechs face the challenge of prioritizing and demonstrating robust cybersecurity with limited resources.