The Asia Resilience Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Workshop was held in Bangkok, Thailand from July 11-14, 2017. The USAID Center for Resilience (C4R) through the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning (REAL) Award supported the training event, to provide participants with...

In this concept note the authors discuss the importance and the challenges related to the measurement of resilience across and between scales. "Scales" are understood as “natural levels of observation or analysis” and the most commonly used levels are: individual, household, and community...

Overview

• Resilience agenda within USAID was prompted by repeat large-scale humanitarian crises, and the increasing costs associated:

Presentation slides, Resilience Evidence Forum October 2-3, 2017

The evidence, and the resulting discussion, presented during the 2017 Resilience Evidence Forum — hosted in Washington D.C. by the USAID Center for Resilience — are presented in the Resilience Evidence Forum Report.

Slide presentation

Using baseline data (December 2013) and Recurrent Monitoring Survey data (collected monthly from Oct 2014-March 2015), the study examines which resilience capacities enabled households in two areas of Ethiopia to recover from the 2014-15 drought in ways that can help inform future...

This study documents the detrimental effects of prolonged drought in four provinces of Zimbabwe. The data cover 2013-2016: two years prior to the onset of the drought and two years during the drought.

The Recurrent Monitoring Survey 2 (RMS-2) was launched in October 2015 to collect real-time data during the drought’s progression to provide key information for understanding household resilience dynamics. 

Conservation agriculture is widely viewed as an important strategy for maintaining healthy soils and improving long-term agricultural productivity, but also has the potential to help in managing waterways that generate a region’s hydropower. However, the adoption of conservation agriculture...