ABSTRACT
In parallel with the popularization of community-based and community-led projects for sustainable development, the concept of community resilience emerged to indicate the potential capacity of vulnerable groups of people to organize communities and develop adaptive management strategies in times of crisis. The concept has been used in different urban and rural contexts across developing and developed worlds, and it is increasingly applied to rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa where the progress of the Millennium Development Goals has been lagging behind in every aspect (United Nations 2013); and where the impacts of climate change are said to be mostly severely felt in forms of weather extremes and disasters like droughts and floods (World Bank 2013).
