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The concept of resilience is an important area of study within socio-technical disciplines, essentially, because of humanity's increased dependency on engineered systems and the vulnerability of such systems to different kinds of threats. To this effect, several frameworks have been proposed for assessment, monitoring, and enhancement of resilience but their uptake in the energy sector remain low, especially in developing economies. The major limitations arise from their inadequacy in demonstrating direct linkages between resilience and development, a narrow characterisation of proposed indicators, and the complexity of deploying them to real world problems. Drawing from past resilience definitions, frameworks and development theory, this study underscores the relevance of resilience as both a necessity and an outcome of development and proposes a synthesised framework for measuring resilience in light …