ResilienceLinks Webinar | Advancing Resilience Measurement: Principles and Priorities

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The webinar explored the outcomes of a recent Advancing Resilience Measurement consultation co-convened by the University of Arizona, USAID and the Global Resilience Partnership. The discussion focused on four subthemes: demand-driven resilience measurement, psychosocial resilience measurement, measuring the resilience of systems and a resilience approach to measuring climate adaptation.

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Dr. Greg Collins is the associate vice president for resilience and international development and a research professor at the University of Arizona. Dr. Collins previously served as the deputy assistant administrator at USAID, where he helped establish and lead the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security and provided oversight for the U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative and USAID’s efforts to build resilience. Greg also served as USAID’s first resilience coordinator and, previously, the founding director of USAID’s Center for Resilience. Prior to joining USAID, Greg spent over a decade as an analyst and strategic advisor for a variety of United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organizations, including the Food and Agricultural Organization, World Food Programme, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and CARE International. Greg earned his Ph.D. in economic sociology from UC Davis, his Master of Public Health from Tulane University, and his B.A. in anthropology from UC Davis.

John Meyer is a Senior Strategy and Impact Advisor at USAID's Center for Resilience. John got his start in international development as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger in the early 1980s. Since then, he has worked in more than 25 countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas, focused primarily on food security and resilience programming with a speciality in monitoring and evaluation. John served for ten years as Chief of Party on three complex, large-scale USAID-funded programs in Bangladesh and Ethiopia.

Shuchi Vora is a resilience professional who works at the interface of science, policy and practice. She is currently the Programme Officer at the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) and leads the Shared Learning area of work through the Resilience Knowledge Coalition, a network of networks hosted at GRP and co-led by ICCCAD and CDKN, with the objective of facilitating knowledge into action. Prior to GRP, she worked with the World Wildlife Fund and The Nature Conservancy. She has experience in knowledge brokering, setting up multi-stakeholder platforms, resilience measurement, strategy design and implementing social-ecological systems resilience programs in South Asia and East Africa. She has Masters degrees from Oxford and Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai.

Dr. Monicah Kinuthia is an accomplished leader with 30 years of experience, including 15 years’ experience in Senior Management positions in the Government in Kenya and has interacted a lot with development partners in programmes implementation. Currently, she is the Acting Director of Strategic Programmes Development and Resilience Building in the State Department for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs), which cover about 87% of the country and the communities there are mainly pastoralists and agro-pastoralist. Dr. Kinuthia has extensive experience in the ASALs and dry lands resilience building and programming and in sectors of Governance, Community Integration, Peace Building and Participation, Natural Resources and Environmental Management and Food Security. She obtained her PhD degree in Animal Production, in 2007 at the University of Nairobi. She also has a MSc. in Animal Production (Animal Genetics and Nutrition), University of Nairobi and BSc. in Agriculture from the same University. She has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Project Planning, Management and Evaluation of Rural Development Projects from The Pan-African Institute for Development - East and Southern Africa, in Kabwe, Zambia.

Dr. Aditya Bahadur is a Principal Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK. He has 15 years of experience in research, evaluation and practice of DRR, climate change and development. He has published widely on these topics including and has contributed to the IPCC’s sixth assessment report. He completed his MA and PhD in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. He completed his Postdoctoral Research as Fulbright Fellow at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York where he wrote ‘Resilience Reset: Creating Resilient Cities in the Global South’.  

Dr. Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and leader of its Ethiopia Strategy Support Program. He spent most of his professional life so far as a researcher and teacher. His most recent broad areas of research include individual psycho-social characteristics (primarily aspirations and locus of control), behavior and well-being outcomes in Ethiopia and beyond; agricultural transformation in sub- Saharan Africa, with emphasis on Ethiopia; social protection and resilience (including impact evaluation of large multi-year public programs such as Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program); and risk and farm households’ economic choices. His research has been published in refereed professional journals and books. He is an elected fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Academy’s Executive Board. He has also served as the president of the Ethiopian Economics Association. Alemayehu has previously worked as an assistant professor of economics at Addis Ababa University, an economic affairs officer at the UNECA, and country director for Ethiopia at the International Growth Center. He holds a BA in Economics from Addis Ababa University, an M.Sc. in Quantitative Development Economics from the University of Warwick, and a D.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford.

Maria Fernanda Zermoglio is a Senior Climate Adaptation and Resilience Advisor in USAID’s Center for Resilience. In her role, she supports Missions in their efforts to respond to the Agency’s Climate Strategy and to consider climate risks as part of a comprehensive risk management strategy. Prior to joining USAID, Fernanda served as a vulnerability and climate advisor for several international organizations, helping to improve the use of climate information in adaptation, using spatial tools for climate risk screening at multiple scales, analytics for regional and sectoral prioritization, climate information services, particularly in the health and agriculture sectors and conducting quantitative and qualitative assessments fit for policy and decision making. She has also served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis and the World Climate Research Programme’s Working Group on Regional Climate.