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Colorado Resilience Criteria
Assessment Tool
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Contact Info
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For questions, please contact:
Rob Pressly, Resiliency Program Manager
Colorado Resiliency Office
rob.pressly@state.co.us
(o) 303-866-3203 x7822
(c) 720-437-1253
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Purpose
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The resiliency prioritization criteria assessment tool was developed as part of the Colorado Resiliency Institutionalization Project completed by the Colorado Resiliency Office (CRO) between 2018 and 2019. The resiliency prioritization criteria assessment tool provides a method for State agencies, grant applicants, and other organizations to assess how well a project or program aligns with the nine State resiliency prioritization criteria defined in the Colorado Resiliency Framework. The tool can be used as guidance, to initiate conversations on ways projects can be enhanced to provide resiliency benefits, or can be incorporated into the evaluation process for State grant programs. The resiliency prioritization criteria assessment tool is included as an attachment to the Colorado Resiliency Playbook, which can be obtained through the CRO's website, www.coresiliency.com.

State agencies: The resiliency prioritization criteria assessment tool is meant to be a flexible tool that State grant program managers can employ in different ways to help State agencies and grant recipients incorporate resiliency principles into State funded or administered grant projects. As noted above, the tool can be incorporated into the evaluation process for State grant programs if the program currently includes the nine resiliency prioritization criteria in the evaluation or can be modified to include the criteria. If the evaluation process cannot be modified, consider providing the tool to grant applicants as guidance. The resiliency criteria assessment tool can be useful during the pre-application phase or even following a grant award to start conversations between grant applicants and State grant program managers to identify ways to modify a project to provide additional benefits or avoid negative impacts.

The tool can also be used to assess how well a grant program aligns with the resiliency prioritization criteria. Complete the questions in the Project Evaluation tab, considering the features, benefits, and impacts of the grant program as a whole.
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Directions for using the Resiliency Criteria Assessment Tool
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The Excel version of the resiliency criteria assessment tool is divided into three tabs. The Narrative tab includes an introduction to the tool, considerations for interpreting the tool's output, and an FAQ.

Click the Project Evaluation tab at the bottom of the window to answer a series of questions related to each of the nine State resiliency criteria for an individual project or program. Use the drop-down menus in column C to enter your responses. In most cases, these are Yes or No questions; however, some questions have multiple response options. The responses under each criterion add up to a total of 10 points, with the highest overall total being 90 points. The total score will appear at the top of the form and will update automatically as responses are entered.

To see graphical representations of scores for each criterion, click the Graphical Output tab at the bottom of the window. The next section discusses considerations for interpreting these graphs.
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Considerations for Interpreting the Output from the Resiliency Criteria Assessment Tool
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The resiliency criteria assessment tool may be provided as guidance or may be included in the evaluation process for a grant program. Please contact the grant program administrator with questions regarding how the responses entered in this tool will be considered during the project evaluation process.

The responses to the questions under each of the resiliency criteria in the Project Evaluation tab can add up to a total of 10 points. Questions have not been weighted, so each of the questions under an individual criterion is worth the same number of points. In some cases, responses have been weighted (i.e., one response will be worth the total number of points associated with that question, while other responses to the question will be worth smaller percentages of the total). Questions with weighted responses are indicated by drop-down menus with numbered choices. Each time a response is changed in the Project Evaluation Tab, the score within the criteria category will be updated along with the overall score shown at the top of the worksheet.

The Graphical Output tab includes a bar chart and pie chart breaking down the results. The bar chart shows the score under each criterion, out of a total of 10 points. A perfect evaluation score is 90 with the 9 criteria having a total possible score of 10 points each.

The percentages shown in the pie chart represent the percent contribution of responses under each criteria to the overall resiliency assessment value (with a total of 90 points possible). All of the questions under each resiliency criteria are worth 10 points. Therefore, responses to each question under criteria with a smaller total number of questions will be worth more than responses to questions under criteria with a larger number of questions.
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FAQsWhat is Adaptive Capacity?
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Definition
Incorporate flexibility, lessons learned, and transparency into and projects so that they can better accommodate both anticipated and unanticipated future events, including changing climatic, economic, and social conditions. Adaptive capacity includes skills, actions, and measures that increase people’s ability to make decisions at a variety of levels. It includes building flexibility, modularity, and redundancy into systems and services to ensure continuity under stress or shock.

Criterion Purpose and Intent
Adaptive capacity strengthens the ability of systems, people, and institutions to deal with changing conditions, either to accommodate negative impacts or to take advantage of positive ones. Building decentralized and responsive projects is critical for ensuring effectiveness and sustainability as things change.
By integrating these measures, projects can ensure that vital programs will continue to be effective regardless of the change that occurs. Measures can target social systems like education and healthcare, ecological systems like rivers and forests, and physical systems like highways and housing. The ultimate goal of this criterion is to ensure that in planning a project, consideration is given to future uncertainty and reducing future risk.
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