Advancing resilience measurement

Resilience has rapidly risen to the top of the agenda for sustainability and development1. The concept underpins a number of high-level policy initiatives, including the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement. In the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and with billions of dollars’ worth of resilience investments being mobilized globally, resilience will continue to rise as a policy priority. The scale of these investments further amplifies the importance of resilience and highlights the need for rigorous and decision-oriented evidence. Under these conditions, we believe that current measurement approaches can do more to serve the learning, evaluation and accountability needs of resilience stakeholders.