UNDP Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (PAPP) has been leading efforts to define the resilience approach in the State of Palestine through a consultative process that commenced in 2016 with the Palestine Resilience Conference titled 'From Sumud to Transformative Resilience'. The conference provided a forum for practitioners, donors, government actors, non-government actors, and private sector representatives to discuss resilience-based programming in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). In 2019, UNDP PAPP organised a co-creation workshop in which UN agencies, donors, and the private sector were invited to collectively conceptualise a multi-sector and multi-stakeholder national framework to build transformative resilience in Area C, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
Over the last two years, UNDP PAPP has been refining the concept of Transformative Resilience in the Palestinian context, and developing a new Palestine Programme Framework (PPF) centred on this vision. In addition, it has been exploring how Transformative Resilience can be strengthened in the oPt, including through a Humanitarian Development Peace (HDP) Nexus approach and the application of portfolio management principles that acknowledge the complexity of challenges and the importance of systems thinking. These perspectives have also fed into UN-wide discussions around the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) as well as Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). This working paper aims to stimulate further discussion, experimentation/implementation, and reflection for continuous improvement, by outlining the current thinking around these interconnected pieces of work.

(Last updated 15 November 2022)