The Belgian network SECORES recently published its views on the added value of the Social-Ecological Resilience-approach in international cooperation in a 4-page document.
This 4-pager discusses the link between Social-Ecological Resilience (SER) and the sustainable development paradigm and describes what the added value of the SER-approach is in international cooperation offering strategic guidance at organisational or project level. To put SER into practice, 5 key questions are considered:
- Scope (resilience of what?)
- Objective (resilience to what end?)
- Target audience (resilience for whom?)
- Disturbances (resilience to what?)
- Approach (resilience through what?)
Two hypothetical examples describe how the SER-approach could look like.
Join For Water is a founding and a lead member of SECORES, the Belgian Network on Social-Ecological Resilience. The 5 other members are BOS+, CEBioS, VIA Don Bosco, WWF Belgium and Uni4Coop. This network aims at
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- improving knowledge of social-ecological resilience via learning and exchanging;
- putting our theme higher on political agendas via advocacy and dialogue;
- stimulating synergies between interested actors.