Resilience Adaptation Pathways and Transformation Approach

A common response across sectors is to call for resilience, adaptation or transformation of systems from local to global scales. There is growing investment in activities aimed at building resilience, or enabling adaptation and transformative change, often with differing interpretations of these concepts and how projects, programs, policies or investment initiatives (collectively termed ‘interventions’) can deliver them. Off-the-shelf decision-making and planning processes such as strategic planning, risk assessment and stakeholder engagement processes were not designed to cope with this level of change and uncertainty, and new approaches are required to be effective and robust in these circumstances.