Resilience is the process of adapting following an adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or extreme forms of
stress which mostly emanates from individual experience, organizational mishap or community-wide difficult
experiences and situations. Nelson Mandela aptly stated that “Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how
many times I fell down and got back up again,” when expressing the level at which human being can be able to
recover from adversity and weave the path of resilience.
The main objective of the program is to create awareness of the impact of violence and trauma at organizational
and community level on individuals, groups and societies, and offer strategies and tools for addressing trauma
and breaking the cycles of violence brought about by unhealed trauma. The projects will be able to provide
strategies for stress management and self-care for targeted individuals, organization as well as communities who
find themselves frequently exposed to violence or traumatic events in the nature of their work
Through collaborative and action research, the program aims at developing and testing new approaches to
community driven processes and practices that demonstrate sustainable impact on the environment, human
security, social capital and resilience. The program applies Appreciative Inquiry (AI) approaches to investigate
and validate organizational, cultural and community initiatives to social change, with the aim of documenting
and disseminating the findings to inform policy, practice and sustainable growth