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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Technical Guidance

Measuring Resilience Across and Between Scales and How to Do It

22 Aug 2019
Organizational Authors: CIAT , TANGO International , USAID under the Resilience Evaluation , Analysis and Learning Award, Authors: Bene, C.

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...

Market Systems
Technical Guidance

Integrating Gender into Resilience Analysis: A Conceptual Overview

22 Aug 2019
Organizational Authors: Save the Children , TANGO International, Mercy Corps , USAID Center for Resilience under the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning Award , Authors: Tabaj, K., Spangler, T., Starr, L. , Anderson, A., Garnier, K., Griffin, T.

Populations around the world work every day at maintaining a level of stability in their lives as they face ongoing challenges linked to poverty. With or without the necessary resources, they do their best to feed...

Gender Equity
Technical Guidance

Asia Resilience Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Workshop Final Report

22 Aug 2019
Organization Authors: TANGO International , Mercy Corps , USAID Center for Resilience , USAID Surge Project Philippines , Save the Children under the Resilience Evaluation , Analysis and Learning Award

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...

Nepal Bangladesh Cambodia Philippines Sustainable Poverty Escapes
Technical Guidance

Gender Equity and Social Inclusion Brief

22 Aug 2019
Organizational Author: Mercy Corps under the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning Award , Author: Anderson, A.

The brief focuses on programmatic shifts at the intersection of resilience, gender equity, and social inclusion, which are essential in situations like the 2004 tsunami or extreme drought conditions. Sourced...

Gender Equity
Social Inclusion
Climate and Ecosystem-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Brief
Technical Guidance

Climate & Ecosystem-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Brief

21 Aug 2019
Organizational Author: Mercy Corps under the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning Award , Author: Henly-Shepard, S.

This approach to promoting climate and environmental sensitivity, risk reduction and resilience capacity-building works best when applied equally to operations, staffing and partnerships as a foundation for an...

Climate Change
Natural Resource Management
Technical Guidance

Resilience Measurement Practical Guidance Series: Guidance Note 6 - Recurrent Monitoring Surveys

21 Aug 2019
Organizational Authors: Mercy Corps, TANGO International under the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning Award , Authors: Sagara, B., Scantlan, J., Frankenberger, T., Griffin, T.

The guidance note draws on examples from multiple country and project contexts of what worked well, what challenges emerged and what solutions were developed while implementing an RMS. As such, this guidance note...

Technical Guidance

Resilience Measurement Practical Guidance Series: Guidance Note 5 - Designing and Planning for Resilience Monitoring and Evaluation at the Activity Level

21 Aug 2019
Organizational Authors: Mercy Corps , USAID Center for Resilience under the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning Award , Author: Picon, D.

Part 5 of Resilience Measurement Practical Guidance Series walks readers through the steps to be taken during the program cycle to plan for monitoring and evaluation, to better understand whether the...

Technical Guidance

Resilience Measurement Practical Guidance Series: Guidance Note 4 - Resilience Analysis

21 Aug 2019
Organizational Authors: Mercy Corps, TANGO International , USAID Center for Resilience under the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis, and Learning Award , Authors: Sagara, B., Smith, L.

The fourth guidance note of the USAID Resilience Measurement Practical Guidance Note Series, we describe approaches for conducting resilience and analysis.

Technical Guidance

Resilience Measurement Practical Guidance Series: Guidance Note 3 - Resilience Capacity Measurement

21 Aug 2019
Organizational Authors: Mercy Corps, TANGO International , USAID Center for Resilience under the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning Award , Authors: Vaughan,E., Frankenberger, T.

The third guidance note in Resilience Measurement Practical Guidance series describes how to measure resilience capacities.

Technical Guidance

Resilience Measurement Practical Guidance Series: Guidance Note 2 - Measuring Shocks and Stresses

21 Aug 2019
Organizational Authors: Mercy Corps , TANGO International , USAID Center for Resilience under the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning Award , Authors: Sagara, B., Vaughan, E., Tamang, C., Frankenberger, T., Griffin, T., Kurtz, J.

This second guidance note in Resilience Measurement Practical Guidance series builds on the first by describing how to measure and analyze shocks and stresses.