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Resilience Design brings science-driven regenerative agriculture to the humanitarian sector.

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Resilience Design Community

Resilience Design has evolved through years of collective effort, reflection, and practice. These core organizations have played a central role in stewarding and promoting the approach, alongside countless other practitioners, communities, collaborators, and facilitators who have contributed along the way.

Resilience Design Approach

Resilience Design is a regenerative agriculture approach for humanitarian and development practitioners backed by advanced science.

The Resilience Design Approach uses local knowledge and resources to create an ecologically-driven, whole system design. It prioritizes hydrological stabilization, creating living soils, and building biodiverse systems.

Living Soils

Beneficial Biodiversity

Stabilizing Hydrology

Whole Systems Design

Living Soils

Well-structured, protected, diverse, and healthy living soils.

Beneficial Biodiversity

Biodiverse, integrated production systems consisting of plants, trees, animals, fish, and insects.

Stabilizing Hydrology

Rainwater infiltration and storage within soils of production areas.

Whole Systems Design

Site context-specific design to integrate and maximize hydrology, living soils, and biodiversity.

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Earthworks (or reconstructive earth surgery) are often a vital component of land restoration and regenerative agriculture production. In July 2025, African Women Rising and Resilience Design Consulting hosted an Earthworks for Resilience training in Northern Uganda, near Palabek Refugee Settlement.

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Earthworks for Resilience

We are developing approaches for understanding the impacts of RD on key impact areas: biodiversity, soil health, and hydrology. Our research approach utilizes technologies that allow us to develop quantitative metrics at a range of spatial and temporal scales.

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Research Program: Regenerative Agriculture in Humanitarian Settings Using RD

Learn how the Uganda Refugee Resilience Initiative (URRI) is advancing regenerative Resilience Design (RD) in Northern Uganda to meet the combined environmental and social dynamics of refugee-hosting districts.

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Using RD to Build Resilience from the Ground Up in Northern Uganda

Read about Building Resilient Communities in Somalia (BRCiS)'s learning journey on humanitarian needs, ecosystem degradation, nature-based solutions, and regeneration.

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Building Resilient Communities in Somalia

The Permagarden Foundations Course offers a practical and accessible introduction to the Resilience Design Approach at the garden level. You’ll learn how to work with your environment–not against it–to grow more food, build soil health, and better manage water throughout the year.

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Build Resilient, Biodiverse Gardens with the Permagarden Foundations Course