Underinvesting in Resilience

Southern Resilience

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What Is Resilience?

Flexibility to make changes.

For starters, making a system very resilient in one way can cause it to lose resilience in other ways.

We further emphasize the need to integrate the development dimensions into international rule making and that the international community must remain sensitive to this and take into account the need for flexibility and national policy space for countries while assuming international commitments.

I call it sort of shotgun flexibility.

Several delegations spoke in favour of internationally agreed rules that provide for policy space for development, including policy flexibility for developing countries, allowing them to formulate development strategies that take national interests and institutional realities into account.

But resilience itself is neither good nor bad.

Canada has shown this in its approaches.

In Italy, greater employment flexibility was introduced by the Prodi government in 1997, and further strengthened under the so called Biagi Law of 2003.

The difference between the two valuations is the value of flexibility inherent in the project.

A second lesson is the importance of flexibility.

But flexibility is not a synonym for pure floating.

We appreciate the flexibility shown by all parties.

Secondly, peacebuilding requires flexibility.

We need to look carefully at our zero tolerance policies.

Yet, in the end, credibility collapsed because of the lack of flexibility.

Her delegation appreciated the flexibility shown by the delegation of Japan.

A grand coalition could show greater flexibility in addressing the euro crisis, but less on questions of foreign and security policy.

This is not something that it possesses in abundance.

Field level fund raising and resource allocation rigidity

Flexibility will be essential, within the defined budgetary parameters.

Building and maintaining resilience requires probing its boundaries.

Its flexibility had not, however, been reciprocated.

Systems and procedures are designed for flexibility, rapid response and functionality.

But some countries show strong resilience in the face of pervasive violence and volatility.

He also hinted at more flexibility in negotiations with the United States.

There is thus a surprising resilience in the European project.

CANBERRA Resilience, like love, is difficult to define.

For our part, Botswana is prepared to be flexible in negotiations conducted in good faith.

With more flexible population control, there is plenty of room for other forms of association.

Attention will be paid to geographical representation.

Adaptive governance (flexible, distributive, and learning based).

Resilience should not be confused with resistance to change.

We believe that that proposal shows a much more flexible approach.

The international financial institutions should show some operational flexibility.

Some of the proposals link the depth of the cut to be made by developing countries to options for developing countries to use other flexibilities, for example, the deeper the cut, the greater the flexibility in binding coverage and levels.

We will explore how key ideas in the architecture of the internet and of discourse can rewire our societies for resilience, reflection and deep research.

A certain flexibility is necessary in this regard, and radical positions should be avoided.

(c) Having the flexibility to address emerging issues, such as those identified in para. 40 below

In a few weeks, this flexibility will be used up.

I fail to see how discussions on improving security in space, or discussions on dealing with the subject of nuclear disarmament, could threaten anyone's security interests.

Bearing in mind its relevant resolutions,