Over recent years resilience in Myanmar has evolved from a concept with varying definitions into a tangible process of risk informed development with demonstrated practical application.

A number of agencies and projects in collaboration with the DRR Working Group and wider livelihoods and sectoral programmes have been exploring different elements of resilience focusing on different shocks and stresses covering natural disasters, climate change to environmental change and conflict.

It has been widely acknowledged that resilience is not the end goal of a project. Resilience projects are often working towards many of the same improved wellbeing goals as other development projects including reduced poverty, improved income, sustainable livelihoods and access to essential services. The distinction is that resilience projects looked to ensure that all community development activities were resilient to anticipated shocks and stresses including natural disasters, climate change, environmental change, conflict and economic shifts and shocks.

Resilience has been shown to be a mixture of skills, capacities and resources to be able to anticipate and adapt to changing conditions and absorb shocks and stresses to be able to achieve development plans and objectives.

This page presents a number of studies, research and reports that demonstrate how resilience has worked in Myanmar including guidance documents, tools and approaches to support practitioners to be able to implement resilience projects.

As resilience activities and processes cover a number of MIMU sectors including DRR, environment, livelihoods, governance, gender and WASH links will be provided to the appropriate MIMU pages.