Assessing the Resilience of Child-Sensitive Social Sectors

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Index to measure social resilience of social sectors.

Resilience is a multidimensional construct resulting from a state of balance in interactions with risk and protective factors present at different levels of a person’s, community’s, or system’s ecosystem.

4 capacities to measure resilience

Prevention

How does the system prepare to reduce the impact of the shock?

Absorption

How does the system prepare to reduce the impact of the shock?

Adaptation

How does the system devise strategies to adapt to the situation?

Transformation

How does the system implement radical changes?

Alarming situation in the Sahel

According to the 2021 CCRI, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger are all classified as extremely high-risk countries for children, with 75 million people, including around 40 million children (53%), facing significant water vulnerability in these countries.

Ringing the Alarm on Climate Change in Mali

Mali remains one of the 10 most affected countries in the region, with an extremely high Children's Climate Risk Index (CCRI: 7.3), where the impacts disproportionately affect children and those living in poverty.