Resilience Watch

Monitoring and Evaluation of Adaptation and Resilience Actions

Science-based and systematic Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Certification, Accountability, and Learning (MERCAL) of adaptation and resilience investments, projects, and policies.

— Key Sectors & Domians

$2 trillion is invested globally in resilience each year:

Nearly half of it either underperforms, fails, or makes matters worse!

Empirical evaluation and standardized metrics deployed across critical environmental, social, and technical domains.

Disaster Risk Reduction

Climate Change

Social Equality & Justice

Waste & Pollution Control

Systematic hazard management, early warning protocols, and institutional vulnerability assessment.

Tracking of emissions reduction pathways and regional climate adaptation strategies.

Evaluating equitable resource distribution, community resilience, and policy inclusivity.

Monitoring circular economy metrics, contaminant runoff, and industrial waste mitigation.

Water

Ecological Preservation & Restoration

Urban, Housing & Infrastructure

Energy & Resources

Assessing agricultural security, watershed integrity, and freshwater availability metrics.

Quantifying biodiversity health, habitat recovery, ecotoxicity and ecosystem service performance.

Measuring resilient municipal design, structural standards, and transit durability.

Tracking clean grid transition, resource efficiency, and sustainable extraction metrics.

— Methodology & Standard

The MERCAL Framework

To prevent waste in climate adaptation and resilience, our core concept unites Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Certification, Accountability, and Learning (MERCAL) into one auditable standard. We transform fragmented environmental, social, and technical indicators into verified resilience benchmarks taking into account interdependecies, cascade effects, and feedback loops

By applying the concept of planetary resilience and harnessing complexity science, we model cross-sectoral interactions, nonlinearities, and the probable dynamic consequences of action across time and space.

MERCAL equips policymakers and institutional investors with actionable proof of long-term ecological and economic durability.

The Systemic Resilience Compass

Resilience Return on Investment: Net resilience gain across time, place, sector, and species

Four tests for every policy, plan, project, or investment

— Service & Application

Service of Resilience watch through application of MERCAL resilience evaluation framework:

The MERCAL framework identifies and quantifies:


1) Negative Impacts of resilience projects that are hidden, postponed, spatially shifted, or transformed


2) Identify projects and policies that are funded for the increase of resilience but negatively impact socioecological, institutional, and systemic capacities


3) Identify the cross-sectoral cascade risk propagation probability of investments and determine the reinforcing feedback loops via non-linear interactions of risks

— Concepts & Knowlegde

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