Humanitarian resilience addresses the particular challenges from natural and human made disasters with a humanitarian impact. This impact may be sudden and overwhelming such as the 2004/05 tsunami in South East Asia. It may also be caused by disasters with a slow onset, initially less apparent and with long lasting humanitarian implications. Such disasters can involve explosive remnants of war, the uncontrolled ownership and use of small arms and light weapons, AIDS, de-forestation and global warming.

In January 2005, 168 Governments adopted a 10-year plan to make the developing world safer from natural hazards at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and adopted a framework for Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. The Hyogo Framework is a global blueprint for disaster risk reduction efforts. Its goal is to substantially reduce disaster losses by 2015 - in lives, and in the social, economic, and environmental assets of communities and countries. It offers guiding principles, priorities for action, and practical means for achieving disaster (humanitarian) resilience for vulnerable communities.

Mine action is an example of humanitarian resilience.  It is a domain within humanitarian aid and development studies concerned with activities which aim to reduce the social, economic and environmental impact of landmines and unexploded ordnance. These activities include mine risk education, demining, victim assistance, advocacy to stigmatise the use of landmines and cluster munitions, and stockpile destruction. Mine action requires management planning at global, national and local levels, and involves international, national, commercial, NGO and military stakeholders operating under a variety of conditions.

Although the ultimate goal is world free of landmines and unexploded ordnance in practice many parts of the world will remain contaminated many more years. In such areas, emphasis is placed on mine risk education which allows communities to live and work alongside mined areas. In this regard, mine action reduces the vulnerability and increases the resilience of communities in mine affected post-conflict countries.

four founding partners, has a  specialist group which provides management training in mine action.