The Graduation Model and Gender Empowerment research project in Malawi
This page gives the reader an overview of the Graduation Model and the Gender Empowerment research project in Malawi including a series of learning briefs from 2021.
CMAM2021
"CMAM 20 years on: Going to scale in fragile contexts": A conference for practitioners hosted by Concern Worldwide on 22–25 March 2021
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Read our 2020 annual report
Concern's objectives, activities and achievements in 2020 can be found in our new annual report.
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Nothing Kills Like Hunger
Join our campaign urging action in support of people suffering from conflict-driven hunger.
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PublicationKey principles for programming for community resilience
This is a guidance paper looking at the key principles for programming for community resilience.
Concern defines community resilience as "the ability of all vulnerable households or individuals that make up a community, to anticipate, respond to, cope with, and recover from the effects of shocks, and to adapt to stresses in a timely and effective manner without compromising their long-term prospects of moving out of poverty".
Concern has developed the following nine key principles to guide fields on what to put into community resilience building programmes. If followed, they should result in a programme that builds the resilience of communities, in a manner consistent with our definition above.
