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Author Cooke, Jennifer G., editor.

Title The state of African resilience : understanding dimensions of vulnerability and adaptation / editor Jennifer G. Cooke
Published Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (63 pages) : color illustrations, map
Series CSIS Reports
CSIS report.
Contents Introduction. -- Building a network of resilience scholars and innovators: evolution of the ReslientAfrica Network. -- The RAN resilience framework: developing a tool to analyze community resilience in Africa. -- Deliberative polling: deepening understanding of community insights and priorities. -- Tracing pathways of resilience: identifying dimensions of resilience and exploring the linkages among them. -- RILab preliminary findings: context-specific resilience frameworks and opportunities for resilience innovation. -- Identifying pathways for innovation and intervention
Summary During the last decade, sub-Saharan Africa enjoyed unprecedented rates of economic growth, with new technologies, better governance, and increasing investment flows creating new opportunities for innovation and economic and human development. Yet across the continent, vulnerable populations continue to contend with recurrent crises and stresses that leave them in a cycle of fragility and risk, struggling to recover and unable to expand economic opportunities or to improve well-being. This report examines resilience from the perspective of vulnerable communities across Africa and identifies the most promising entry points for innovations that can increase resilience capacity. Subjects for analysis include the challenges of climate variability and post-conflict recovery in Uganda, chronic internal displacement and conflict in Somalia, gender-based violence in DRC, the link between HIV/AIDS and poverty in South Africa, and rapid urbanization in Ghana
Notes "A report from the ResilientAfrica Network (RAN)."
"March 2015."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (CSIS, viewed March 18, 2015)
Subject Crises -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Community development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Economic development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Community development.
Economic development.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Form Electronic book
Author Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.)
United States Global Development Lab
ResilientAfrica Network
Higher Education Solutions Network
ISBN 9781442240834
1442240830