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Resilience: meaningless jargon or development solution?

Donors, recipient governments and implementing agencies are selling 'resilience' to the public without a clear definition or a money-back guarantee

'Resilience' is probably the sexiest new buzzword in international development. But as its popularity has grown, so has criticism of the use of ill-defined terminology in a sector that claims to be accountable.

Read the full report on the Guardian.