| Stage | Goal(s) | Key questions. Description. |
| 1. Imagination, ideas | Unleash creativity. | How is social capital and imagination fired? Use the power of collective imagination to expand what is possible within and across domains, and begin with unfettered thinking and ideas. |
| 2. Ethos, concept & process design | Set ethos, approach and framing. | What is the driving ethos? How does it inform concept and process? Conceive of and frame the effort as an ICP using Domain 1, with up-front attention to Domains 2 - 6. |
| 3. Integrated assessment | Identify needs, characterize baseline conditions to inform planning. | What are the baseline socio-ecological conditions? What are the needs of diverse groups? How have conditions changed (historical trends)? How are they projected to change under business-as-usual scenario? Use indicators for social, cultural, political, economic and ecological conditions (a subset of which will be used for impacts assessment, e.g. EIA in the planning stage). Includes: Characterize multiple sectors/issues (Domain 2); consider spatial scales (local and regional) and temporal scales (short, medium, long); characterize social groups and relationships (Domain 4); leverage knowledge types (5); inventory existing social and technical capacities (6). |
| 4. Integrated planning | Vision sustainable futures, compare project alternatives using impact criteria, choose most resilient, sustainable project. | What are desirable futures? What are alternative ways to respond to needs and priorities? How do alternatives compare in terms of positive and negative impacts? How do projected impacts vary across populations and landscapes? Consider multiple sectors/issues (2); consider spatial scales (local and regional) and temporal scales (short, medium, long); leverage social groups and relationships (Domain 4); leverage knowledge types (5); strengthen social and technical capacities (6) as integral to any resilience project/plan/program. |
| 5. Project design | Provide details on activities and outcomes, timelines. | What is the design of the preferred, most resilient project? Answers: What to do? Why? Where? When? How? With whom? With what capacities/resources? Use ICP model, with project activities, processes and outcomes informed by Domains 1 - 6. |
| 6. Implementation & management | Actualize project and manage it over time. | Actualization and management keep an eye on domains of integration, and improve what aspects of integration matter, improving ICP frame for a given setting. |
| 7. Impact monitoring & evaluation | Gauge project impacts, changing needs and conditions, for adaptive response. | What are the impacts of the project? How do they compare with assessment and planning impact projections? What are we learning that informs future projects, and related work? Connects strongly to stages 3 - 5. Uses a subset of assessment indicators to gauge impacts (changes) to those indicators. These data have the capacity to re-inform stages 1 - 5 in ongoing/future resilience work. |