Executive Summary

We provide a first assessment on how 15 local communities in the Global South are building resilience in the face of COVID-19. We found that communities used many different coping strategies, spanning multiple social domains of resilience, when responding to a crisis. Social domains of resilience not only imply communities having access to capital, but also that people having the flexibility to change strategies, the willingness or agency to influence change, the capacity to organize themselves collectively in order to mobilize responses, and having reservoirs of trust and social cohesion. Importantly, community-based organizations, such as womens’ and youth groups and grassroots movements, were key resilience-building features.

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Field Visit Report | ICCCAD Youth Fellowship-2025

Policy Brief | Policy Responses to Climate Impacts in Light of Fragility, Instability, and Climate Security Dynamics

Policy Brief | Localising the Indicators of the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA)

Event Report | Saleemul Huq Action Research Exchange – SHARE Hub Report

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Field Visit Report | ICCCAD Youth Fellowship-2025

Whose Land, Whose Story? It’s Time for Women to Get Their Share of the Due

Policy Brief | Policy Responses to Climate Impacts in Light of Fragility, Instability, and Climate Security Dynamics

Policy Brief | Localising the Indicators of the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA)

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