The Steps to Resilience framework outlines the collaborative process of team building, data gathering, and decision making that enables local climate champions and community members to improve their resilience to climate impacts while integrating with broader risk reduction and adaptation efforts. The steps are:

• Step 1. Understand exposure – community is looking at climate data to identify the hazards that could harm their assets and evaluating the potential impacts of those hazards.
• Step 2. Assess vulnerability and risk – community is plotting the likelihood of a climate hazard occurring against the potential magnitude of losses.
• Step 3. Investigate options – community is brainstorming a list of possible actions with their community and checking what others have done to address the climate vulnerabilities they face.
• Step 4. Prioritize and Plan – community is evaluating the costs, benefits, and their capacity to implement the solutions they identified. As well as, ranking the expected value of implementing each action, and integrating the highest-value actions into a step-by-step plan.
• Step 5. Take Action – community is implementing the plan that was created.