2. Understanding resilience

Introduction

In this section, I am going to cover the following topics:

• A brief overview of the co-operative movement and the challenges to resilience in the African context.
• A discussion of the concept of resilience: what do we really mean by it?
• A framework that can be used to analyse and understand co-operative resilience.

If you chose to look at Borda-Rodriguez and Vicari’s paper in Activity 1, you will have some preparation for what follows – but there is no problem if you did not to look at that paper.