ASPIRE locally led monitoring: tracking household resilience trajectories using the RISE resilience ladder

Timely social protection support can protect communities most affected by compounding climate risks. But just linking these programmes to anticipatory action does not guarantee real-world outcomes.

To close this delivery gap, we developed the Anticipatory Social Protection Index for Resilience (ASPIRE) locally led monitoring (LLM) approach. Moving from upward compliance-based monitoring to downward accountability, ASPIRE LLM empowers households to assess whether support is timely, adequate and inclusive.

At its core is the RISE resilience ladder, which tracks household trajectories (progress, stagnation or slippage) across repeated shocks. Connected to a global observatory, this locally generated evidence allows policymakers and funders to course correct delivery, ensuring climate finance builds verifiable, sustained resilience.