Tools & Guidance

Curated evidence, insights and resources to plan, implement and integrate resilience approaches into your programs, as well as tools to measure resilience.

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Tools & Guidance

Guidance for Incorporating the Impact of the Conflict in Ukraine on IPC Acute Food Security Classifications

27 Jun 2022
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)

Besides devastating the lives of the population of Ukraine and decimating key parts of the infrastructure and economy of the country, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had wide repercussions outside the Ukraine...

Conflict and Fragility Nutrition Agriculture
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Technical Guidance

Cultivating Stability: Agriculture systems, conflict and resilience

01 Oct 2021
Mercy Corps

Climate change, environmental degradation and inequitable access to natural resources have sparked or aggravated conflicts.

Conflict and Fragility Agriculture
A child holds bullets.
Policy Brief

Resilience and Food Security Amidst Conflict and Violence

01 Jul 2021
USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, University of Denver and Peterson Institute for International Economics

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

Conflict and Fragility
Livelihood Diversification
Political Stability
Migration
Natural Resource Management
Access to Markets
Japanese street food market
Technical Guidance

What Are Future Financing Options for Shock Responsive Social Protection?

31 May 2021
Social Protection Approaches to COVID-19 Expert Advice Service, DAI Global

How can development partners finance shock-responsive social protection? This resource provides approaches to financing, financing instruments and more.

Conflict and Fragility
Sustainable Poverty Escapes
Social Protection
Social Capital
Financial Inclusion
Tools & Guidance

Rapid Resilience Learning Brief: Harnessing Local Sources of Social Cohesion in Niger

02 Mar 2021
Lichtenheld, A., Inks .L, Tankora, E., & Morrison, L. , Organizational author: The Resilience Evaluation, Analysis, and Learning (REAL) Award
Lessons for Building Resilience in Protracted Crises and Conflict-affected Settings

This brief examines factors that contribute to local-level variation in social cohesion in order to improve programming....

Niger
Honduras
Conflict and Fragility
Social Inclusion
children in classroom
Policy Brief

Education & Resilience: Transforming Systems in Adversity

31 Jan 2020
USAID Office of Education

This brief summarizes a USAID white paper on the linkages between education and resilience.

Conflict and Fragility
Education
Social Capital
Human Capital
Operational Strategy

Operational Strategy for the Shock Responsive RISE Portfolio

23 Sep 2019
USAID

The RISE portfolio aims to strengthen resiliency in communities and governments in selected, somewhat adjoining areas of Burkina Faso and Niger.

Niger Burkina Faso Climate Change Conflict and Fragility
Policy Brief

Conflict and Resilience: A Synthesis of Feinstein International Center Work on Building Resilience and Protecting Livelihoods in Conflict-Related Crises

22 Aug 2019
Daniel Maxwell , Elizabeth Stites , Sabina C. Robillard , Michael Wagner

This paper reviews more fifteen years of research by the Feinstein International Center to examine the nexus of conflict, livelihoods, and resilience.

South Sudan
Kenya
Ethiopia
Uganda
Somalia
Conflict and Fragility
Livelihood Diversification