resilience

People forced to flee Sudan are doing everything in their power to keep their families safe. 

In Yemen, nearly ten years of conflict has uprooted communities, decimated public services, and pushed over 80% of the population into poverty.

Resilience is a word we use a lot at Concern, but what does it mean? In general terms, it is a characteristic that describes a person’s capacity to cope in difficult times. But in humanitarian aid and development work, the word ‘resilience’ is used in a very specific way to discuss a community’s response to disasters, shocks and stresses.

This Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) process brief demonstrates how to measure the resilience of a community to floods before and after intervention. 

This Special Issue of Knowledge Matters showcases the research conducted by Masters level student researchers on topics relevant to Concern's work in 2022.

This page shows the poster presented at the Irish Global Health Network Conference 2022.

The current news about East Africa is grave, and rightly so. The region is experiencing one of its most severe droughts in recent history, and millions of people are facing starvation. However, while urgent global action is needed to help families survive, it is important to acknowledge the resilience of these communities in crisis.

For refugees and internally displaced people (IDP) across the world, gardening isn’t just a way to pass the time - it is a means of survival.