In this new podcast episode of Rethinking Resilience, TAI’s Eszter Filippinyi and ECNL’s Vanja Skoric bring together civil society leaders from Ukraine, Serbia, Kenya, Brazil, and the global human rights field to reflect on what resilience really means in times of crisis. The conversation moves beyond simple ideas of “bouncing back” and instead presents resilience as something collective, contextual, and deeply connected to care, trust, and shared purpose.
Guests discuss how organisations and movements are responding to war, repression, shrinking civic space, funding cuts, exhaustion, and uncertainty, while still protecting their missions and remaining rooted in their communities.
Rather than treating resilience as a matter of endurance alone, the episode explores how it can also mean adapting strategically, supporting one another, redistributing leadership, and rethinking what sustainability looks like in practice. At its core, the discussion asks how civil society can stay effective and courageous without losing its voice, values, or ability to imagine a more just future.
Featuring leading voices from across the field, the episode brings together Ana Toskic (Partners Serbia), Anna Isichko (CEDEM Ukraine), Tania Sanchez (Ford Foundation), Nina Madsen (Mapping Adaptation Project), Grace Maingi (Kenya Community Development Foundation and Weawing Resilience Kenya) and Gabriela Bucher (Fund for Global Human Rights).
Listen to the full episode.
