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T1 Social Resilience for System Transformation - A STAP Information Note
A1 Global Environment Facility, 
A2 Barnett, Jon
A2 Belkin, Gary
A2 Bierbaum, Rosina
A2 Moscuzza, Alessandro
SN 978-92-807-4263-3
YR 2025
FD 2025-11
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/49230
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/49230
NO The Global Environment Facility (GEF) increasingly recognizes that durable environmental outcomes depend on social resilience and the ability of communities to organize and cooperate. This STAP information note synthesizes evidence from the behavioral and social sciences to show that social resilience and collective action are prerequisites for achieving transformational change. It identifies seven institutional and psychological foundations that enable communities to withstand shocks, adapt, and steward natural resources over time (i.e. social cohesion, anchor institutions, resilient livelihoods, women’s empowerment, well-being, care, and hope and agency) and argues that by integrating these foundations more intentionally into project design the GEF can enhance equity, inclusion, and long-term effectiveness of its investments.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026