Author name: Coordination

During the Mangal Festival in Benin from 23-27 September 2026, SECORES organized two side events on Social-Ecological Resilience (SER) and its link to mangroves: one on experiences of SER in mangroves, the second on using the SEPLS methodology.

On Thursday 24 September in Brussels, SECORES, 11.11.11 and NGO-federatie organised a round table on feminist leadership, climate justice and collective action. It was an inspiring evening centred on dialogue, new perspectives and enriching conversations.

During a webinar on 21 April 2026 examples were shared on how to apply the SEPLS methodology to assess Social-Ecological Resilience. SEPLS meaning (Indicators for) Social-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes.

How to clarify the relationship between Social-Ecological Resilience and agroecology? With partners from Bolivia, DR Congo and Madagascar, and together with the Coalition against Hunger we looked for answers in this hybrid seminar on 1 April 2026.

On 2 December 2025, SECORES and Join For Water organized together a ‘Water and Climate Café’ in Brussels. The focus was: “Too much, too little and too muddy water in the face of climate change: Stories of resilience from around the world”.

This study, published in november 2025 in Land, aimed to identify local perceptions of resilience and list disturbances experienced by rural communities that undermine social–ecological resilience in Burundi, a country facing important pressures.

On 26 May 2025, SECORES organized a symposium to discuss how international cooperation actors can improve harmony, strengthen synergies and reduce tensions between ‘social’ and ‘ecological’ objectives in international cooperation programs.

During a hybrid workshop in the Andes region, participants from Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador shared experiences on how their programs link to social-ecological resilience and how to put resilience into practice.

This publication aims to share insights and inspire practitioners in international cooperation to learn with us about the added value of using a social-ecological resilience framework to develop, implement and evaluate development projects.

In a 2-hour workshop in Mbour, a presentation was organized on SECORES, social-ecological resilience, tools to assess resilience, and how Uni4Coop translated the concepts in its outcome on mangroves in Senegal, Guinea, Benin and Madagascar.

On behalf of SECORES, consultants of HUMANYA conducted a study to explain the relation between gender & inclusion and social-ecological resilience and how this relationship can be strengthened within a social-ecological system.

SECORES presented insights and links with actual work in the field during the international conference on “Achieving Inclusive Science for Effective Conservation, Adaptation, and Resilience in the Tropics” of the Association of Tropical Biological Conservation.

This follow-up workshop focused on assessing social-ecological resilience and the application of the SEPLS tool in Burundi; on how participants experience the question ‘resilience for whom?’; and on which synergy actions can be foreseen on marshes.

A two-day workshop was organized in Kigali on demand of the JSF Rwanda with presentations and exchanges on the concepts, application and how to assess social-ecological resilience; and on its link to biodiversity, One Health and agroecology.

The workshop was held in Bamako with 26 participants from Malian and Belgian organizations. After an introduction on resilience, experiences and challenges of resilience in Mali were discussed as well as possible joint future actions.

This 4-pager discusses the link between Social-Ecological Resilience (SER) and the sustainable development paradigm and describes what the added value of the SER-approach is in international cooperation.