The objectives of this case study follow:

• Document the lessons learned from the first two years of the Partnership for Recovery and Resilience (PfRR—also known as “the Partnership”).
• Unpack the eight building blocks as a methodological framework for establishing the Partnership’s area-based programming in four locations (also known as “communities” or Partnership Areas [PAs]).
• Establish why one of the core pillars of PfRR—Building Trust in People and Institutions—is foundational to the integrity and performance of the Partnership and the Building Block framework.
• Build the evidence base for the Partnership Approach to resilience programming, whereby the international community engages and works with local communities to prioritize, design, and implement resilience activities in a fragile state context.

To address the case study objectives, Africa Lead captured the knowledge gained by progress to-date to establish the methodological framework (implemented as eight building blocks) in the four PAs, and supplement that knowledge with feedback on PfRR structures, processes, tools, and products through an extensive listening tour with internal stakeholders from October to December 2019. In so doing, the team gathered through additional first-hand accounts insights into the effectiveness of, and how to strengthen, the eight building blocks. Finally, the listening tour provided an organized process to elicit feedback on PfRR structures, processes, tools, and products to insights to how they might be improved to strengthen decisions by internal stakeholders.