Evidence matters in resilience too. We generate and disseminate evidence on resilience.
We build and share knowledge products to enhance capacity of individuals, communities and organizations.
We provide technical expertise and advice on resilience to communities and organizations.
The Resilience Foundation is our not-for-profit organization. We help communities build resilience on pro-bono basis through generous volunteering of our expert volunteers for social good.
Global Resilience Collaboration Center (GRCC) promotes collaborative research and action on the cross-border promotion of resilience.
Volunteers for Resilience is a collection of youth volunteers who are dedicated to help communities more resilient.
Resilience delivered a two-day residential training on community resilience with a focus on disaster management in collaboration with Sarvodaya. The beneficiaries of this program included 25 Buddhist monks from Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Resilience partnered with Sarvodaya through the Small and Mighty Grants Program of the US Embassy Colombo in conducting the Pillars of Resilience project. Hundred religious leaders were trained through the project. In addition, Resileince partnered with Sarvodaya through the AHA funded CORRECRt-19 project to engage religious leaders to promote pandemic resilience.
Resilience partnered with Sri Lanka Unites to deliver the Y-FORB project supported by the Small and Mighty Grants Program of the US Embassy Colombo.
The Asia Foundation’s Changemakers Development Fund supported the establishment of the International Journal of Community Resilience and International Journal of Health-Systems Resilience.
Resilience provided consultancy services to WHO on several areas in the area of Health-Systems Resileince.
The US Embassy Colombo was a generous donor of two Small and Mighty Grants to Resilence. The Pillars of Resilience project was focussed on building the capacity of religious leaders on community resilience. The Y-FORB project was aimed at promoting youth engagement on Freedom of Religion or Belief.
Resilience delivered a community resilience training to the Americares Volunteers in Sri Lanka.
Resilience received a small grants project that was part of the European Union funded AHA! Awareness with Human Action project that seeks to contribute to the response efforts of the COVID-19 pandemic by preventing conflict and building social cohesion in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and broader South Asia. The AHA! project is implemented by a consortium of project partners, including the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers/Finn Church Aid, World Faiths Development Dialogue, the Center for Peace and Justice – Brac University, the Center for Communication and Development of Bangladesh, Islamic Relief Worldwide, the Youth Development Foundation, and Sarvodaya.
Resilience partnered with ADRA to plan and implement the BRAVE project on Pandemic Resilience.
The Heinz College of Information Systems and Management of Carnegie Mellon University, USA, collaborated with the Resilience and the Alliance for Global Resilience and Regeneration to assess options for promoting community resilience in Sri Lanka Read more…
Applications are now open for the Ventures for Sustainability Fellowship Program for Alumni of which is an 8-week long regional incubation virtual program that focuses on interregional harmony and collaboration, capacity building, and providing hands-on experience Read more…
We would like to congratulate Dr. Lahiru Kodithuwakku for winning the Gold Medal at the Humanitarian MBA at the Roxbourg Institute of Social Entrepreneurship for his project with Resilience. He has been a pioneer in Read more…
Community resilience can be defined as the ability of a community to ‘bounce back’ and recover using its own resources. It also means the ability of groups or communities to cope with external shocks and Read more…
The Resilience Foundation launched the Little Food Cabinet Movement inspired by the Little Free Pantry in the USA. Little Food Cabinet Movement is a grassroots, crowdsourced solution to cater to immediate and local needs. The Read more…
The Care2Share Trust, New Zealand supported the distribution of food baskets to 150 needy families during the financial crisis through the Resilience Foundation. Each family received a food basket worth SLR 7000. The Volunteers for Read more…
My Dream My Sri Lanka is a crowdsourcing platform for citizens to dream, share, plan, and act for a better Sri Lanka. It is a volunteer-based, not-for-profit, non-partisan initiative based on citizen engagement and leadership aimed at Read more…
Siyatha TV interviewed Dimantha Jayasinghe from Resilience on the CORRECT-19 Project, aimed at promoting pandemic resilience through faith-leader engagement.
The Asia Foundation offred a Changemaker development Fund Grant to Dr. Novil Wijesekara from Resilience to Launch the International Journal of Health-Systems Resilience. He was an Asia Foundation Development Fellow from the 2016 cohort. Dr. Read more…
The Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies welcomed Dr. Novil Wijesekara from Resilience as a Guest Speaker to speak on his work on Transforming Violent Religious Extremism through faith-leader engagement. He met with Security Professionals Read more…
Dr. Sudipta Roy from the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs of Georgetown University of Washington DC, USA interviewed Dr. Novil Wijesekara from Resilience on the European Union (EU) funded project, Awareness with Read more…
An Event Organized as a Part of the Sixty-Sixth Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) On Thursday, March 24, from 8:00-9:30 AM EDT, the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers, Christian Council Read more…
The International Journal of Health-System Resilience (INJHSR) is published to provide a platform for academics and practitioners to explore, discuss, debate, and innovate in the field of health system resilience.
International Journal of Community Resilience (INJCR) is published by Resilience RTC with the objective of promoting the academic discipline and the field practice of community resilience.
