Resilience Measurement Technical Working Group
The rapid growth in resilience-focused programs has created a demand for results that can help demonstrate the effect of investments in resilience.
The concept of resilience is widely viewed as offering a platform on which a strategic response to global challenges may be based. The rapid growth in resilience-focused programs has created a demand for results that can help demonstrate the effect of resilience investments. To meet this demand, the Resilience Measurement Technical Working Group (RM-TWG) was formed in 2013 as an initiative under the Food Security Information Network.
Informed by the contributions of 20 experts in the field of measurement, the RM-TWG produced a set of papers that brought the goals of resilience measurement into focus and provided guidance on how to conceptualize and approach the measurement of resilience. The RM-TWG made a substantial contribution to the way in which resilience measurement can be conceptualized and implemented. It has succeeded in engaging membership of the world’s leading resilience measurement specialists and practitioners as well as providing a point of reference for building consensus around critical principles related to resilience measurement.
While progress on resilience measurement and analysis has been made, the question of how evidence from resilience measurement activities may support country-level and regional level decision making requires a focused response. To be useful, resilience measurement evidence should be more directly connected to decision making within countries and across regions.