RtR Metrics Framework Components
The Resilience Attributes are a set of conditions that are closely linked to resilience. When an action influences these conditions, it can be considered to have an impact on resilience itself. These attributes help assess the quality of an action’s impact, providing a more nuanced understanding beyond quantitative measures. Actions that target different resilience attributes are complementary and collectively strengthen overall resilience.
The RtR framework applies seven main resilience attributes and 19 sub-attributes.
- Preparedness and Planning – The ability to anticipate, prepare for, and manage change and uncertainty through early risk detection, proactive responses, and strategic adaptation.
- Learning Capacity – The ability to acquire, process, and apply knowledge to strengthen resilience, combining experiential and educational learning while leveraging local knowledge and social learning.
- Agency – The capacity of individuals or communities to make intentional decisions and act adaptively, transforming risks into opportunities. Key elements: autonomy, leadership, decisiveness.
- Social Collaboration – The ability to self-organize and coordinate collective action, building strong social networks and governance systems that enhance adaptation and recovery. Key elements: participation, connectivity, coordination.
- Flexibility – The capacity to adjust strategies in response to changing conditions, balancing short- and long-term responses. Key components: diversity and redundancy.
- Equity – Ensuring fair access to resources, inclusive decision-making, and the participation of diverse stakeholders, addressing vulnerabilities and power imbalances. Key components: distributive equity, equity of access.
- Assets – The natural, financial, infrastructural, technological, and service-based resources that enable effective responses to disruptions. Key components: finance, infrastructure, natural resources, technology, services.
