Tools & Guidance

As urban populations continue to grow, development programmers must explore evidence-based, practical guidance on how to strengthen urban resilience.

Explore a suite of technical guidance notes, evaluative research, practitioner-focused capacity-strengthening activities and webinars from REAL.

This study describes the adaptation of the CYRM for use in Indonesia.

The ICAN Activity works with community structures to confront imbalances that undermine women’s economic opportunities and influence in communities.

Policy Implementation Assessment of USAID's Building Resilience to Recurrent Crisis: Policy and Program Guidance

Social protection can play an important role in helping families prepare for, cope with and recover from shocks and stresses.

How can household resilience be measured using the 18 indicators of resilience capacity?

Enhancing Flood Early Warning Services aims to build the resilience of communities in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region by increasing flood forecast lead times.

The Surface Water Mapping Tool documents the dynamics of seasonal flooding cycles on the Mekong River to better understand some of the impacts of dams. 

Resilience investments are increasingly focused on conflict-affected countries. USAID has developed this brief to frame their work in this space.