Agency and Resilience

Overview

An important component of the adolescent well-being framework is the domain of agency and resilience that contributes to ensuring all adolescents “have the support, confidence and resources to thrive in contexts of secure, and healthy relationships, realizing their full potential and rights” [1]. In this paper, we explore why agency and resilience is important in the context of adolescent well-being. We provide examples of evidence based programmatic interventions to increase agency and resilience and emphasize the need for a multisectoral gender transformative approach in policies and practice. We also look at synergies with other domains of the well-being framework and give an overview of global measurement frameworks on agency and resilience.