GOAL's Resilience Approach for Social Systems (R4S) Approach

What is GOAL's R4S Approach? The Resilience Approach for Social Systems (R4S)  is a tool to analyse the resilience of critical socio-economic systems, and proposes recommendations for their strengthening in order to build more inclusive and resilient societies.

The R4S Approach applies Systems Thinking, Network Theory, Scenario Thinking, Social and Behaviour Change, Inclusion and Resilience tools to provide a practical and structured step by step process to assess the resilience of complex socio-economic systems. One of the central innovations in R4S is its mapping tool which aims to improve understanding of complex socio-economic systems and facilitate analysis of these systems. R4S also provides new guidance on analysing determinant factors of resilient systems including Connectivity, Diversity, Redundancy, Governance, Participation and Learning.