What Collaborating for Resilience (CoRe) does

Collaborating for Resilience (CoRe) is a Washington, DC-based international non-profit initiative that designs and disseminates methodologies for multi-stakeholder dialogue on environmental governance and natural resource conflict. Founded in 2014 as an initiative of CGIAR and spun off as an independent 501(c)(3) organization in 2019 through a fiscal sponsorship arrangement with the Fund for the City of New York, CoRe serves development practitioners, researchers, policy stakeholders, and bilateral/multilateral development agencies operating in land governance, fisheries, forestry, and climate resilience across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

The organization's core technology is a portfolio of qualitative frameworks, including the Multi-Actor Platform Design Approach, a Three-Phased Approach (Listening, Dialogue, Action), and a Learning, Monitoring and Evaluation (LME) Framework for Systems Change. These are codified in freely distributed publications such as the Collaborating for Resilience Practitioner's Guide (available in English, French, and Spanish), the Multi-Actor Platform Design Guide, and the STARGO handbook, policy briefs, and country program reports. CoRe delivers its methodology through direct partnership engagement with anchor organizations including the Foundation for Ecological Security, International Land Coalition, WorldFish, and CGIAR programs (PIM and ClimBeR).

CoRe's revenue model is composed entirely of grant-funded professional services: program grants from bilateral donors (BMZ, CGIAR PIM) and foundations (Skoll); partner co-investment routed through coalitions such as ILC (with European Commission, IFAD, Netherlands MFA, Sida, Irish Aid, and BMZ as underlying funders); and discrete service agreements for facilitation, training, and evaluation work. The organization employs approximately 10 multilingual specialists distributed across 13 cities in 9 countries and operates without a standard pricing structure, as publications are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 and distributed free of charge.

Name

Collaborating for Resilience (CoRe)

Legal name

Collaborating for Resilience

Website

https://coresilience.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Collaborating for Resilience is an international non-profit that develops and disseminates multi-stakeholder dialogue methodologies for environmental governance, serving practitioners, researchers, and development agencies across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Governance Advisory

NAICS

Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental Education, Capacity Building & Community Engagement (BPADALAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus & Resilience Programming (BPADAEAK), Technical Cooperation, Capacity Building & Policy Advisory Programs (BPADABAO), Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation (BPAGAGAF)

Keywords

• Environmental governance advisory
• Natural resource management
• Multi-stakeholder facilitation
• Action research services
• Capacity building programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington DC

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Program Grants: Funding from development agencies for research, development, and outreach activities. Examples include German Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ) for cross-regional action research and CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets for convening, capacity building and analysis.
2. Partner Co-investment: Joint development of activities and outcomes within existing programs, where partners co-invest resources. The International Land Coalition co-invests organizing international workshops, building community of practice, and documenting lessons using core funds from European Commission, IFAD, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Sida, Irish Aid, and BMZ.
3. Service Agreements: Delivery of targeted capacity building, research, or advisory services including workshop facilitation and documentation, tailored training programs, production of research reports or guidance, participatory program evaluation, strategic reviews, and policy dialogue processes.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Collaborating for Resilience (CoRe) is an international non-profit initiative that provides knowledge products (manuals, practitioner guides, policy briefs, and program reports), advisory services, capacity building, and action research to support multi-stakeholder dialogue and governance innovations for equitable natural resource management. Its offerings target practitioners, development agencies, civil society organizations, and policy stakeholders working on environmental governance across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Product overview

Collaborating for Resilience (CoRe) is an international non-profit initiative that offers a portfolio of knowledge products rather than a traditional software product. The core offering consists of evidence-based guides, manuals, and toolkits designed for practitioners working in environmental governance and natural resource management. The main products include the Multi-Actor Platform Design Guide, the Practitioner's Guide (available in English, French, and Spanish), the STARGO Handbook and Toolkit, and the Engaging Government Guidance Note. These publications work together as an integrated framework: the Practitioner's Guide provides the foundational approach to organize dialogue and sustain collaboration, while the Multi-Actor Platform Design Guide extends this for landscape-level governance challenges. The STARGO series (Policy Briefs and Program Reports) provide context-specific guidance and documented outcomes from field applications in Cambodia, Zambia, Uganda, and India. CoRe also offers published journal articles synthesizing lessons on multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Multi-Actor Platform Design Guide A manual/guide outlining a multi-stakeholder approach to address challenges related to local governance facing communities, government officials, civil society members and other stakeholders at the landscape level. Designed for practitioners facilitating multi-actor platforms.
• Collaborating for Resilience: A Practitioner's Guide Foundational manual providing a detailed approach to organize dialogue, joint actions, and sustain collaboration to catalyze institutional change addressing shared challenges of natural resource management. Available in English, French, and Spanish translations.
• From conflict to collaboration in natural resource management: A handbook and toolkit Handbook and toolkit for practitioners working in aquatic resource systems providing orientation to issues and practical exercises and tools to support participatory processes for reconciling diverging interests.
• Engaging Government for Policy Influence Through Multi-Stakeholder Platforms: A Guidance Note Guidance document discussing design choices for national engagement strategies, focusing on how evolving relationships with government actors can help achieve policy reform and improve people-centered land governance.
• STARGO Policy Briefs Four policy briefs covering: investing in collaboration for environmental resource conflict management, engaging the private sector in natural resource management, supporting gender-inclusive dialogue, and collaborative dialogue for local institutions in co-management.
• STARGO Program Reports Program reports documenting outcomes from action research in Cambodia, Zambia, and Uganda on dialogue approaches to address environmental resource competition and conflict, including country-specific case studies and a synthesis report.
• Capacity Building and Advisory Services Targeted capacity building, research, and advisory services including workshop facilitation and documentation, tailored training programs, production of research reports or guidance, participatory program evaluation, strategic reviews, and policy dialogue processes delivered to civil society organizations, governments, and development agencies.
• Action Research Services Cross-regional action research on multi-stakeholder dialogue for natural resource governance, conducted jointly with partners in large lake systems (Lake Victoria, Lake Kariba, Tonle Sap Lake) and landscape-level initiatives in India and Guatemala. Includes development of resources for participatory analysis of resource conflict and competition.

Quantifiable outcome

• Enabled regulatory change expanding resource access rights for small-scale fishers in Cambodia, contributing to the largest transfer of freshwater fisheries tenure from commercial to community management in Asia
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

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Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Collaboration with CGIAR's ClimBeR initiative in Guatemala to develop LME frameworks and tools to track progress toward policy transformation in the national agri-food sector, working with civil society coalitions including Red Bejuco network.
• International Land Coalition (ILC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerILC is partnering with CoRe to build capacity of national facilitators and member organizations to convene and sustain high-performing multi-stakeholder platforms for people-centered land governance. Currently 22 countries have invested in these platforms as part of national engagement strategies, expected to increase to 35. Partnership aims to document good practices and build cross-regional community of practice.
• WorldFishcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWorldFish and Adelphi co-led action research in large lake systems in Uganda (Lake Victoria), Zambia (Lake Kariba), and Cambodia (Tonle Sap Lake). WorldFish is part of CGIAR with 40-year track record of scientific research in developing economies of Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Documented outcomes include improved collaboration among community groups, NGOs, and government; agreements with investors to secure community access rights; and influence on government priorities.
• AdelphicoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdelphi is a Berlin-based independent think tank and public policy research institute working to improve global governance in climate, environment and development. Partnered with WorldFish and CoRe to develop suite of resources for participatory analysis of resource conflict and competition and strategies for conflict transformation.
• Foundation for Ecological Security (FES)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFES works in over 7000 villages across eight states in India, contributing to rehabilitation of 3 million hectares of common forests, pastures and farmland, with benefits for 7.8 million rural people. Partnership with CoRe aims to scale landscape restoration innovations, support five-fold increase in reach through Promise of Commons initiative, and document role of multi-actor platforms in governance reform.
• CAPRi (CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCAPRi is a research coalition linking all 15 CGIAR centers and over 400 national agricultural research institutes and universities. Supported action research on Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake contributing to regulatory change that expanded resource access rights for small-scale fishers and the largest transfer of freshwater fisheries tenure from commercial to community management in Asia.
• CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoRe was initially developed as an initiative of CGIAR. PIM invests in convening, capacity building and analysis comparing lessons from diverse agroecosystems. Blake Ratner, CoRe's Executive Director, was previously Director General of WorldFish.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Adelphi: Berlin-based independent think tank on climate, environment, and development — co-led CoRe's STARGO action research and shares the same donor set (BMZ) and policy-advisory posture.
• WorldFish: CGIAR research center on aquatic food systems and a core CoRe partner; CoRe's STARGO Cambodia/Zambia/Uganda action research was co-led with WorldFish, making the methodological overlap closest among peers.
• Landesa: International nonprofit working on land tenure security and rural livelihoods with comparable donor mix (BMZ, EU, Skoll-adjacent funders) and direct adjacency to CoRe's ILC and FES partnerships.
• International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED): London-based policy research NGO of similar scale producing evidence and tools on natural resource governance, climate adaptation, and inclusive development — overlapping heavily with CoRe's practitioner-facing methodology work.
• Foundation for Ecological Security (FES): India-based nonprofit restoring Commons across 7,000+ villages; CoRe's flagship India partner for the Promise of Commons initiative and the most directly comparable landscape-restoration governance peer.
• EcoAgriculture Partners: International nonprofit focused on integrated landscape management and multi-stakeholder approaches at the same landscape level CoRe's Multi-Actor Platform methodology targets.
• Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI): Global coalition advancing land and resource tenure rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities — operating in the same land-governance and multi-stakeholder convening space as CoRe and ILC.

Broad incumbents

• IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature): International membership-based organization working on nature conservation and sustainable development, including land-governance and multi-stakeholder programs with significant overlap in donor and partner universe.
• World Resources Institute (WRI): Much larger global research organization producing data-driven work on environment, land, and resource governance — overlapping with CoRe's institutional donor pool and evidence-based framing.
• Overseas Development Institute (ODI): UK-based global affairs think tank covering governance, climate, and natural resources with similar peer-reviewed policy-brief outputs and a comparable network of European and bilateral donors.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

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