Resilient systems are those that are both able to respond to shocks and evolve by transforming, adapting and innovating (UNESCO, 2022. Inclusive and Resilient Societies). 

International development programmes can support resilient approaches. They can do this by ensuring focus on creating

• Resilience by intervention - providing resource as needed to support system resilience during initial shocks; and 
• Resilience by design - building in the capacity for a system to recover critical functions after a disruption (OECD NAEC, 2021).

Key to achieving resilience is ensuring that investment in people and social systems is at the centre of policy design. 

This group will focus on how resilience can be achieved by policy makers and for international development  by design, and for intervention. 

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